 As of 23 April 1688, there was for several years a spa here with a pumphouse, overseen by a hydrotherapist Doctor Bachoff from Gotha.The community had, beginning in 1912 – when it had 930 inhabitants – a railway link with the "Hersfelder Kreisbahn" to Bad Hersfeld and into the Werra valley to Heimboldshausen.Today, the former district railway's operating lands can only be seen at the old railway station.