Legacy
The Museum of Vincenz Priessnitz is in the house which was the seat of the first hydrotherapy institute in Lázně Jeseník.
There is a statue of Priessnitz in Vienna (1911), in Kirchheim unter Teck and a Priessnitz fountain by Carl Konrad Albert Wolff in Poznan, Poland
The 200th anniversary of his birth was listed among the UNESCO anniversaries in 1999.
A band from Jeseník named itself Priessnitz.
A Czech movie based on his life was made in 1999 under the name of Vincenz Priessnitz.
Knowledge of Preissnitz's work in Britain led to the foundation of twenty hydropathic establishments. Of these, two remain one in Peebles, the other Crieff Hydro, Crieff.
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