The town of Bad Dürrenberg is located on the river Saale between the cities of Leipzig, Merseburg and Weißenfels.

The elaborate Mesolithic burial of a woman and baby dating to 7000-6800 BC was discovered in 1934 in a riverside spa garden.

[6] By 993, the oldest part of the town, the Keuschberg district, was occupied by Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor.

On 22 March 1856 a railway line from Leipzig to Corbetha via Barneck, Markranstädt, Kötschau and Dürrenberg began operations.

During the times of the Weimar Republic, Dürrenberg was adversised as a spa town, with reference to the existing graduation towers (then 1,821 m long) for bathers to “stay in dust-free, ozone-rich air soaked in salt” and described the health resort as a “brine bath”.

During the Second World War, foreign forced laborers were employed by companies in Bad Dürrenberg.

The district president Otto Gotsche made the announcement at a ceremonial meeting of the city council on 6 January 1946.

[12] Beginning in 1950, towns including Kirchfährendorf, Goddula-Vesta, Oebles-Schlechtewitz, Tollwitz, Spergau, and Nempitz were incorporated into the Bad Dürrenberg administrative community.

Each year on the last weekend of June the town has a festival held over a period of three days, which is known as Brunnenfest (Well Celebration).