Old pump room (Bad Wildbad)
The old pump room was a spa building in Bad Wildbad in the Black Forest . It stood from 1878 to 1959 at the northern entrance of the spa park .
history
With the construction of the Graf-Eberhard-Bad , a covered drinking fountain was installed on its north facade. However, there was no foyer for the drinking cure, which has been popular since the 18th century . Initial plans from 1865 envisaged the construction of a new pump room with bath house in the former parish garden, where new thermal springs had been drilled shortly before . The plans based on the model of the Baden-Baden drinking hall were not carried out, instead the König-Karls-Bad was built there from 1881 .
The Wildbad spa doctor Wilhelm Theodor von Renz initiated the construction of a drinking hall on the left Enzufer near the then Hotel Bellevue in 1876 . Albert von Bok planned the hall as a glass-iron construction, which was built in 1878/1879 under the direction of Carl Beck.
The pump room was divided into three domed pavilions with arcades in between . At the northern end was the drinking hall pavilion with the main portal in front . Inside, spiral stairs led to the lower lying thermal fountain. The middle bandstand was given its own entrance and an orchestra annex to the rear. In the southern pavilion there was a cold water fountain instead of the originally planned whey stop counter.
The construction extended for around 130 meters along the Enz . A footbridge that was still preserved led from the arcades to the spa area opposite, and later a bridge was added at the level of the middle pavilion.
The building was constructed from prefabricated cast iron parts from Wasseralfinger Hüttenwerke . The outer pavilions and the orchestra annex were glazed, while the arcades were completely open. The hall could not be heated and was largely unprotected against the wind. In 1904 the arcades were widened and glazed on the Enz side.
In the 1920s, efforts were made to replace the pump room with a new building that could be used all year round. In 1933/1934 the new drinking hall was built elsewhere in the spa gardens .
The old pump room was demolished in 1959 because it was in disrepair. From the point of view of monument preservation , the reason was the lack of appreciation for historical buildings. The final stop of the tram has been on the site since 2003 .
literature
- Thomas Eckard Föhl: Wildbad. The chronicle of a spa town as building history. Druckhaus Müller, Neuenbürg 1988, pp. 223-231.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Ministry of Finance Baden-Württemberg, Construction Department (Ed.): Staatsbad Wildbad. Memorandum for overall planning. Stuttgart 1959, p. 16.
- ↑ Eckart Hannmann: Wildbad and its vanished splendor. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg. 25th year 1996, issue 1, doi : 10.11588 / nbdpfbw.1996.1 , p. 44.
Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 56.1 ″ N , 8 ° 33 ′ 1.4 ″ E