Svetlogorsk inherited the fame of a resort town and the developing sanatorium infrastructure from East Prussia, to which it once belonged. Back then, however, it was known by a different name - Rauschen.
Charmed by the beauty of the local nature, Friedrich Wilhelm IV did everything possible to turn the city he had come to love into a resort of national importance. By his order, Rauschen was intensively landscaped, built up, and embellished. It was precisely at that time that a building appeared here which later became the city's calling card - the sea water and mud therapy center with a water tower. This balneological health resort was built from 1900 to 1908 by architect Otto Walter Kuckuck.
The hydrotherapy center became one of the first buildings in the city whose construction used reinforced concrete structures. Its perfectly smooth dark-gray walls contrast wonderfully with the orange tiles of the dome-shaped roofs and the snow-white frames of the Art Nouveau windows.
The water tower of the therapy center rises 25 meters. In 1978, magnificent Art Nouveau sundials depicting the Sun and the signs of the Zodiac appeared on it.
There used to be the best observation deck in the city at the top of the tower, with a panoramic view of Svetlogorsk and the Baltic Sea. Unfortunately, now only patients of the Military Hospital, which now owns the building of the water and mud therapy center, can go up there.
