Aqua Dome
| Aqua Dome - Tirol Therme Längenfeld | ||||
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 Aqua Dome |
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| place | Längenfeld | |||
| opening | March 24, 2010 | |||
| Visitors | 350,000 (2017) | |||
| surface | 2,000 m² | |||
| staff | 220 | |||
| Website | www.aqua-dome.at | |||
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Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 10 ″ N , 10 ° 57 ′ 53 ″ E
The Aqua Dome is a thermal bath with an attached wellness hotel in Längenfeld in the central Ötztal , Tyrol , Austria . Around 350,000 visitors are counted every year.
architecture
The thermal dome has the shape of a glass “ crystal ”, the function of which is to reflect the surrounding mountains in the outer facade. In the open-air spa there are three circular bowls with a diameter of 12 to 16 meters. These can be reached via an illuminated and heated glass cone. Except for the brine bowl, the active pool and the children's pool, the water in all pools is enriched with ten percent thermal water . The pooled thermal water comes from glacier water that has been filtered through layers of rock. From a depth of 1,865 meters, it flows into the thermal baths at a temperature of 40 degrees. Overall, the Aqua Dome has a water surface of 2,200 square meters. The entire complex of the thermal baths and the attached wellness hotel is partly based on Feng Shui . The hotel's own SPA area is also available for hotel guests under the name SPA 3000, which extends over 2 floors over 2,000 m². In the north is the children's area with a closed slide. The shape of this building is based on a ship.
History of origin
The thermal spring was first scientifically examined in 1830. The "water impregnated with sulphurous hydrogen gas" was then considered to be "probably the purest of the previously known sources" (original text). At the source, next to a small chapel, a wooden bathing building with a tub house and some rooms was built. The water at 12 degrees was heated in a kettle and carried to the bathtubs in buckets . This bath burned down on November 5, 1875.
In the following years, the source changed hands several times. Tourism pioneers founded the Längenfeld spa in 1893 . The Berlin architect Wilhelm Walter planned the building in the style of the then common historicism . Over the years a spa hotel established itself which treated its guests with therapeutic baths, cold water treatments according to Sebastian Kneipp and Vincenz Prießnitz as well as milk cures . Due to a drainage project, the spring dried up in the 1960s. After the spa hotel was closed and demolished in 1980, the name Bad Längenfeld was given up.
In 1986 it was decided to reopen the source. First test drilling did not bring the desired success. It was not until a deep borehole in 1997 at 1,865 meters that water with a temperature of 68 degrees was newly developed for economic use. First, that was sodium - chloride - sulfate - sulfur spa , which was recognized as medicinal water, used in a natural pool with two small pools on the outskirts. This natural pool still exists today as a historical memory within sight of the Aqua Dome. 90 percent of the spring water is now fed into the thermal baths, where it is added to almost all pools.
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Economical meaning
With around 220 employees, the Aqua Dome is of national economic importance as a leisure facility for the Tyrolean tourism industry . The thermal bath is operated by the company Vamed - on behalf of a shareholder consortium. The Aqua Dome is one of the largest employers in the Tyrolean Oberland .
Web links
- Official website
- History of the "Badl Längenfeld"
- Sulfur bath in local history
- Economic importance for the Ötztal ( Memento from December 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fact Sheet. (PDF) Retrieved October 12, 2016 .
- ↑ Fact Sheet. (PDF) Retrieved October 12, 2016 .
- ↑ AQUA DOME Fact Sheet. (PDF) AQUA DOME Tirol Therme Längenfeld, accessed on September 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Annual Report of Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol AG 2008 (PDF; 15.2 MB); Retrieved December 3, 2010