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The Buchinger family โ four generations of therapeutic fasting
For more than 100 years: how Otto Buchingerโs family carried his method from Lake Constance to Marbella โ as an interactive family tree.
๐ณFour generations
๐๏ธรberlingen, Lake Constance
โ๏ธMarbella, Spain
๐ฌTradition meets research
For more than 100 years
More than a name: a fasting family
Many know Dr Otto Buchinger as the founder (origin). Less known is that his family carried the method on for generations.
To this day his descendants combine the classic method with modern research and integrative medicine.
๐ โGrande Dame of fastingโ
Thatโs what Maria Buchinger, Ottoโs daughter, was called internationally.
She was key to making the method known worldwide.
Generation by generation
The Buchinger family tree
Click through the generations.
1st generation
Dr Otto Buchinger
The physician develops the method and opens his first clinic in 1920.
2nd generation
Maria Buchinger & Helmut Wilhelmi
They found the clinic in รberlingen in 1953; later a second clinic in Marbella follows.
3rd generation
Raimund Wilhelmi & Dr Franรงoise Wilhelmi de Toledo ยท Jutta & Claus Rohrer
รberlingen sees numerous studies and university partnerships; Marbella is continued in parallel.
4th generation
Leonard Wilhelmi ยท Katharina Rohrer-Zaiser & Victor Wilhelmi
The great-grandchildren run the clinics today, combining tradition and modern medicine.
Tradition with a future
Why the method keeps evolving
New findings flow into guidance, nutrition and programmes.
Test yourself
Family quiz
Quiz
1 / 3
Where did Maria Buchinger found a clinic in 1953?
In รberlingen on Lake Constance โ Marbella followed.
What was Maria Buchinger called?
The โGrande Dame of fastingโ.
Which generation runs it today?
The fourth generation.
Your result
0Great โ now you know!
Buchinger fasting at the Zollhaus
Guided fasting โ in the forest, with warmth
At Landhotel Altes Zollhaus in the Ore Mountains you fast according to Buchinger in a small group โ guided by experienced fasting leaders, with vegetable broth, fresh juices, fasting hikes, liver compresses and rest in our spa.
Current offers
Buchinger fasting dates
All prices per person in a double room. All about Buchinger fasting
07.11. - 13.11.2026Experience Fasting with Kirsten Jahns
Fasting is not about giving something up โ it is an encounter with yourself. This fasting week combines relief, exercise and joie de vivre into a healing break.
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29.11. - 04.12.2026Experience Fasting with Kirsten Jahns
Experience fasting: more mindfulness, more clarity โ a break for body and mind.
Price from 565 euros per person in a double roomDETAILS
10.01. - 15.01.2027Buchinger Fasting with Winfried Knust
A soothing fasting week with exercise, nature, mindfulness and valuable inspiration for regeneration and new inner balance.
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17.01. - 22.01.2027Experience Fasting with Kirsten Jahns
Experience fasting with Kirsten Jahns โ a soothing time out for body, mind and soul.
Price from 585 euros per person in a double roomDETAILS
21.02. - 26.02.2027Experience Fasting with Kirsten Jahns
Experience fasting โ consciously let go, gather new strength.
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07.03. - 12.03.2027Buchinger Fasting with Elke Fleps
Treat yourself to a time out with Buchinger fasting at the Zollhaus. Elke Fleps supports you with holistic care, laughter yoga, hiking and valuable inspiration.
Price from 809 euros per person in a double roomDETAILS
14.03. - 19.03.2027Buchinger Fasting with Katja Pohl
Buchinger fasting with Katja Pohl โ a mindful time out for body and mind with nature, peace, hikes and fasting guidance.
Price from 814 euros per person in a double roomDETAILS
21.03. - 26.03.2027Buchinger Fasting with Katja Pohl
A mindful time out with peace, nature, hikes and attentive fasting guidance.
Price from 814 euros per person in a double roomDETAILS
04.04. - 09.04.2027Buchinger Fasting with Elke Fleps
A week that relieves body and mind and awakens new joie de vivre, with rest, exercise and cheerful impulses back to more lightness.
Price from 809 euros per person in a double roomDETAILS
Are there still descendants?
Yes โ the business is run by the fourth generation in รberlingen and Marbella.
Who was Maria Buchinger?
His daughter, who founded the รberlingen clinic with her husband in 1953 and made the method internationally known.
Where can I experience it?
In clinics, hotels and courses โ e.g. our fasting weeks.
Conclusion
A lifeโs work that lives on
Over four generations the Buchinger family shaped therapeutic fasting. The idea lives on in small, personal courses too โ like ours in the Ore Mountains.
From the Zollhaus blog
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Further sources: รrztegesellschaft Heilfasten & Ernรคhrung e. V. ยท Klinik Buchinger Wilhelmi
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