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What do Johns Hopkins University and Hospital, Greenmount Cemetery, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Marine Commandant’s House in Washington D.C., the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, and countless Baltimore-Washington streets, houses,

businesses, monuments, and institutions have in common? 

The answer is G. Krug & Son. The blacksmith shop located at 415 West Saratoga Street in Baltimore has been supplying high-quality iron and metal products since 1810. Started by a German immigrant, Augustus Schwatka and carried forward by Gustav Krug who immigrated from Germany in 1850. The little shop expanded to a near monopoly on the iron and metalworkers’ market in Baltimore forging ornamental fences, gates, railings, fire escapes, cresting, doors, animal cages, and locks throughout the end of the 19th and 20th century. 

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places the Krug Complex consists of a two-story tall gable-roofed building dating from the first quarter of the 19th century, that houses the earliest shop; a four-story tall Victorian building which houses a business office, museum, and storage rooms on the upper floors; and a three-story tall shed-roofed addition dating from 1870 to 1880. Beginning in 1810 G. Krug & Son is recognized as the oldest continuously operating blacksmith shop in the United States. It remains a fifth-generation family business that is still going strong. 

Spa Adagio is the only German owned spa and wellness center in Baltimore, MD since 2014, combining Deutsche Gemütlichkeit und Herzlichkeit with traditional German architectural Spa settings.

Regina is there for all who are looking to feel better, regain more strength and range of motion. She closes the gap for all Americans with German heritage to chat in German or to experience a German traditional Spa. Her work follows typical German standards of Spa and Health services and provides meticulously performed and finely choreographed customized treatments for every client to unwind. 

German traditional spa = Kur treatments combined with a fusion of treatments from around the world makes this a very unique healing place for all who carry themselves through daily life looking to unload the burden and are ready to refresh their senses, leaving stiffness and pain behind. No rush, just relaxation!

St.Patrick’s former Rectory is the ideal backdrop for the European charm in the midst of Fells Point. Once a busy hub for German, Polish, Russian immigrants working at the docks, it breathes the old times with the modern life of today. Couples find here a place to rekindle and share their precious time either in couples’ treatments or learning the art of massage to take home.

Herzlich Willkommen!