Bad Fohrenburg

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Gasthaus Fohrenburg on Werdenbergerstrasse in Bludenz in winter 2016

The Bad Fohrenburg (also "Bad Hinterplärsch", 572  m above sea level ) was a spa in Bludenz in ( Vorarlberg , Austria ) and is located in the "Fohrenburg" plot next to Werdenbergerstraße (L 190), opposite the Fohrenburg brewery, built later .

history

The beginning of the use of the mineral spring in the district Hinterplärsch (about 679  m above sea level ) is not known. The "Badstuben" plot is located on the site of the old spring use. Today there is the parking lot of the Muttersbergseilbahn valley station. In 1608 the water was analyzed for the first time. A lifeguard has been here since the middle of the 16th century.

A "bath money", a kind of wellness tax, had to be paid to the authorities from the Hinterplärsch baths and the Tschagguns Tilisunabad .

In the Biedermeier period , the simply built and dilapidated bath huts in Hinterplärsch were demolished, the spring recessed and directed to Bad Fohrenburg, which was newly built on the main street in 1838. In the middle of the 19th century, Basil Beiser (1795–1875), the town clerk and court clerk as well as a member of the Tyrolean state parliament (1848) worked as a landlord in "Bad Fohrenburg".

The bathing operation was stopped at the end of the 19th century. In 1880 the medicinal spring was bought by the Fohrenburg brewery and from 1881 the medicinal spring was also used for the brewery's beer production.

Bathing and healing spring

The healing spring used was a cold sulfur spring. After the bathing huts in the district of Hinterplärsch were demolished around 1838, the healing water was led into Bad Fohrenburg, which was newly built in 1838, via a pipe about 1.2 km long (as the crow flies). The peak of the use of the mineral spring was in the middle of the 19th century.

In Eduard Jos Koch's treatise from 1843: “ A treatise on mineral springs in general scientific terms and a description of all baths and health fountains known in the Austrian monarchy ”, the bath is not mentioned. Josef Zehenter mentions the Bad Fohrenburg in the mineral springs of Vorarlberg in 1895 and notes that the bathing establishment has been closed and “ only outdated information is available about the water used here ”.

Geography / topography

The original bathing huts were in the district of Hinterplärsch (about 1.5 km as the crow flies from the city center), the Badstube parcel, which is now the Muttersberg cable car parking lot. Both this, the guest house located next to it and the later accommodation in Bad Fohrenburg on the main street were kept rather simple.

literature

  • Werner Vogt: Old health spas in Vorarlberg a journey through the Vorarlberg bathing landscape. Verlag Benvenuti, Feldkirch 2001, ISBN 3-901522-07-7 .
  • Christoph Vallaster: Small Vorarlberg spa book. Book Spezial Verlag, Dornbirn 1984, ISBN 3-900496-03-3 .
  • Josef Zehenter, Mineralquellen Vorarlberg , Innsbruck 1895, Online Vorarlberger Landesmuseum .

Web links

Commons : Bludenz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "History of the city of Bludenz , from prehistoric times to the beginning of the 20th century" by Manfred Tschaikner (ed.), Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1996, ISBN 3-7995-1170-9 , p. 222, with further information on Bad Hinterplärsch .
  2. ↑ Manfred Tschaikner in “ The Urbar of the Lords Bludenz and Sonnenberg from 1620 - an overview ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ", P. 67. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vorarlberg.at
  3. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 127.
  4. ↑ Manfred Tschaikner in " The farewell speech of the Capuchin Gate to the City of Bludenz (1845) " in Bludenzer Geschichtsblätter, issue 75 (2005), p. 106 ff.
  5. ↑ Planning and start of construction of the Fohrenburg brewery , website of the Fohrenburg brewery
  6. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 127.
  7. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 127.
  8. ↑ Vienna 1843, Pichler, Volume 1, p. 179 f.
  9. ↑ page 159.
  10. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 127.

Coordinates: 47 ° 9 '27.8 "  N , 9 ° 48' 47.1"  E