Old bath house (Eberbach)
The old bath house in Eberbach in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in Baden-Württemberg goes back to the late medieval bath house in the city, in which a bather kept the baths going until 1708. In the listed half-timbered house , which has a three-aisled groin vault in the basement and has already been hit by numerous floods from the Neckar , there is now a restaurant.
history
Presumably there was already a bath house on the site of the current building in the early 14th century. After the city fire of 1340, the bath house was renewed. The oldest components of the building, the hump corner cuboids in the bathroom, date from that time . A three-aisled groin vault in the basement comes from the Gothic period . The bathhouse was first mentioned in the master builder accounts of the city of Eberbach in 1468, when extensive renovations were carried out on the two massive main floors. A bath is documented in 1480 and also had his apartment in the bath house.
After the building was repaired in 1525, it suffered major damage again during the Neckar flood of the century in 1529. A kitchen connected to the bathing establishment was first mentioned in 1598. In 1607 the house was again extensively renovated, which is why the Bader was evacuated for three months. During the Thirty Years' War the bathing business came to a standstill from 1631 to 1634. Extensive repairs were carried out on the building as early as 1636.
From 1651 Mathes Mäurer was a bath and surgeon, who in 1656 was also the host of the Löwen inn . As early as 1659, the building was so dilapidated that the swimming pool had to be closed again. From 1670 the bathing industry in Eberbach experienced a rapid decline. In 1683/84 the Oberamt Mosbach hired a doctor who was also responsible for Eberbach. Bader Mäurer immediately complained in 1684 that he had to eat “sourly, with all kinds of other handicrafts”.
When there were disputes over the division of the church in the Electoral Palatinate in 1708 , the village's reformed teacher was assigned an apartment in the bathhouse, and at the same time the use of the bathhouse ended. In 1711 the building was sold to the Catholic teacher Hess and subsequently used for residential purposes. In 1784 there was again damage from floods, which is still indicated by a high water mark today. In 1834, 23 people lived in the old bath house, which at that time was expanded to include two additions on the city wall facing Lindenplatz. In 1864 the building was extended.
In 1952, the district building authority in Heidelberg recommended that the house be demolished, but this was not carried out. At that time, an ironing and hot ironing room was set up in the vault, later the vault was used as a storage room for the weekly market on Lindenplatz.
In 1976 the building came into the ownership of the city of Eberbach after the ownership situation was split up. In the following year, the State Monuments Office carried out excavations in the bathroom, after which the building was extensively renovated. In 1979, private owners opened the hotel restaurant Altes Badhaus in the building, which then went through two further changes of ownership and one more complete renovation before a hotel and restaurant opened its doors again on November 10, 1987. In the following year a guest house was added, after the redesign of Lindenplatz in 1989 an open terrace was added. Another flood of the Neckar in February 1990 led to another renovation of the building.
literature
- Roland Vetter: The old bath house in Eberbach , Heidelberg 1990
- Peter Schubart: The late medieval bath house in Eberbach, Rhein-Neckar district. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , 9th year 1980, issue 3, pp. 131–135. doi : 10.11588 / nbdpfbw.1980.3.14301
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Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 46.9 ″ N , 8 ° 59 ′ 6.6 ″ E