Bad Goegging

Bad Goegging City of Neustadt an der Donau Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′ 12 ″ N , 11 ° 46 ′ 48 ″ E
Height :	355 m
Residents :	2219 (Dec 2017)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	93333
Area code :	09445

Bad Gögging is a district of the town of Neustadt an der Donau in Lower Bavaria . Bad Gögging is the only health resort in Bavaria that has three state-approved natural remedies: sulfur water , mineral thermal water and natural moor .

location

The health resort Bad Gögging is located between the cultural landscape of the Hallertau , the largest contiguous hop-growing area in the world, and the Altmühltal nature park in the flat meadows of the Danube, which is two kilometers away . The Abens River flows through the village . Neustadt an der Donau is 2 km away. Ingolstadt and Regensburg are around 30 km and 40 km away, respectively. State road St 2233 leads through Bad Gögging .

history

St. Andrew's Church

New spa center: wellness hotels with golf course

Beginnings

New spa center with a walkway and fountain; Glowing in changing colors at night

Prehistoric finds indicate a settlement in Bad Gögging that goes back to the younger Stone Age and the following Bronze Age (5000 to 1500 BC).

Celts and Romans

The Celtic entrenchment near Heiligenstadt and the river name Abens, in Celtic Abunsna, bear witness to the settlement by the Celts in the last 500 years before Christian times. The Celts practiced a spring cult and so it is assumed that they knew and used the Bad Gögging springs.

Around the year 15 BC The Roman occupation of Vindeliziens (today's Bavaria south of the Danube) took place and with it the complete Romanization of Celtic culture in the following centuries.

Gögging's history as a spa begins with the Roman era . The sulfur springs of today's spa town Bad Gögging were verifiably used by the Romans. It has not been proven, but it is likely that they were already known at the time of Emperor Titus around 80, when the Cohors IIII Gallorum ("4th Gaulish Cohort") built the Abusina fort to secure the Danube line. The Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes ends here . What is certain is that Emperor Trajan visited the area around 110 and the garrison built a thermal bath . The facility housed a caldarium , a sudatorium and a frigidarium .

When the local church was rebuilt in the early 1960s, remnants of the bathing complex from Roman times were found . It was found that the center of the Roman bathing complex was on the church hill. Under the Romanesque church of St. Andrew there is a Roman bathing pool with an associated heating system, the so-called hypocaust heating . The pool has a size of 10.8 by 7.8 meters. The stamps on the bricks indicate that the bath was financed from both state and private assets of the emperor and was therefore of great importance. So far, however, it has only been possible to uncover parts of the Roman thermal baths of Bad Göggings, as they are located under the town center. The extension of the entire bathing facility with 56 m from east to west and 30 m from north to south is therefore only a minimum.

The Roman history of Bad Gögging is closely related to that of the nearby Roman fort Abusina . The fort was built in 79 AD in clay framework and expanded in stone under the emperors Domitian and Trajan (81–177 AD). It is unclear how long the baths were in operation and whether they have the Marcomanni -Einfall 174, the Alemanni -Sturm 260 or only at the Huns -Einfall 450, when the Romans were largely destroyed the fort had been abandoned. The central bathing pool remained unaffected. The relics that were excavated from 1960 to 1970 under today's St. Andrew's Church can be viewed in the Roman Museum for Spa and Bathing in Bad Gögging.

Bavarians and the Middle Ages

After the Romans, the Bavarians came to the region. With the decline of Roman rule at the end of the 5th century, the Germanic tribe migrated up the Danube, in a southerly direction, to the abandoned Roman province of Raetia . They settled in the previously settled places. Bad Gögging was first mentioned in 823 as "Keckinga". The name referred to an important feature of the place and can be translated as "living spring".

The place documented as "Göcking" continued its tradition as a bathing resort of the Romans in the Middle Ages , when the ancient thermal baths were already built over with the St. Andrew's Church. It is unclear when the healing springs were rediscovered. What is certain is that Duke Ludwig the Rich of Landshut knew them in 1470. But councilors from Landshut and Straubing were also among the bathers.

Up to and including the 19th century

However, in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, the source and site suffered a number of setbacks. In the Landshut War of Succession in 1505, the opponents of Duke Albrecht the Wise Bad Gögging burned down completely. During the Thirty Years' War the place was destroyed by Swedish troops 1632–1633, as well as in the War of Spanish Succession 1702–1714 and in the War of Austrian Succession 1740–1745. It is reported from 1783 that the spring did not flow for a few days after a major earthquake hit Messina (Italy).

It was not until the end of the 19th century that bathing was resumed. In today's Gasthaus Alter Wirt, Gögging bathing cures could be taken during the wild bathing period. In 1876 Franz Hetz, a merchant from Neustadt, bought the old inn and built the Roman bath. The house was expanded again and again and received more and more guests.

20th century

In 1908 the Römerbad was taken over by the sisters Betty and Kreszenz Hauber. According to the files of the Royal State Ministry of the Interior from the Landshut State Archives, the sisters successfully applied for protection of the sulfur spring as a publicly used medicinal spring two years later, on April 9, 1910. The Trajansbad was built by Hans Huber in 1913 as the second spa house at the Trajans spring, which was previously used for drinking cures.

On June 30, 1919, the State Ministry of the Interior decided to give the place official spa status.

After the Second World War , regular tourism developed alongside the spa business. Guest houses and inns emerged.

Bad Goegging

On July 1, 1972, the previously independent municipality of Gögging was incorporated into the city of Neustadt an der Donau.

Limes thermal baths

In May 1976 was dissolved in 650 m depth in drilling sodium - bicarbonate - chloride source discovered. In December 1979, this resulted in the “Limes-Therme” thermal bath , which is based on the Roman tradition and has since been modernized and expanded several times. The recreational pool today comprises 1000 m² of water, divided into 6 indoor and outdoor pools. In all exercise pools there is thermal mineral water with temperatures of 28 to 36 ° C. In the medical department of the Limes-Therme, applications with the local remedies natural mud, sulfur water and mineral thermal water are administered. The Roman sauna, opened in 1999 and modernized in 2016, is a unique sauna landscape in Bavaria in a faithfully reconstructed Limes tower with a Roman bathhouse.

The modern spa town of Bad Gögging

From the end of the 20th century, a second spa center with a number of modern wellness hotels, a golf course , a new spa house, a spa clinic and rehabilitation centers, facilities for assisted living, shopping facilities developed around the Limes thermal baths and catering establishments.

In 2019, the award as a state-recognized health resort has existed for 100 years.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Bad Gögging shows two bathing bushels, the one shown in the coat of arms above representing the Roman bathing epoch, the lower one representing the medieval era.

tourism

Kurplatz

Cast of a Roman relief in the Limes thermal baths: wine sellers in an Augsburg tavern

The tourism in Bad Gögging, which is flourishing alongside the spa business, is based on wellness concepts linked to ancient tradition and nature and active holidays.

The Limes thermal baths with thermal bathing area , whirlpools , steam bath and a sauna area designed as a museum are of national importance . In a reconstructed Limes tower with sweat baths based on ancient models ( laconium , sudatorium, caldarium, tepidarium ) around 500 exhibits (Etruscan, Roman and late antique sculptures and reliefs) are integrated partly in showcases and partly as furniture. This so-called “Roman sauna” has an outdoor area with Mediterranean plants.

Bad Gögging is the starting point of the Via Danubia , the Bavarian section of the Danube cycle path and south-eastern tip of the Limes hiking trail in the nature park Altmühltal and thus also of the parent Deutsche Limes trail . Popular destinations for tourists are also the Danube Gorge near Weltenburg with the monastery , Prunn Castle , Riedenburg and the Altmühltal .

Attractions

Romanesque church portal St. Andreas

A part of the Roman thermal baths found under St. Andrew's Church has been open to the public since 1980 as the Roman Museum for spa and bathing activities . Only relics can be seen; In addition to the room layout, the heating system, which is characteristic of Roman baths, is understandable by means of brick ducts that conducted hot air from two fireplaces under the floor and behind the walls.
The Andreas Church itself is Romanesque and has a sculpture portal that is stylistically related to the art of the Magistri Comacini . The tympanum shows Christ as judge of the world between two angels. The side reliefs show various allegorical figures that represent sin or human vice. The larger fields refer to the Old and New Testaments and are related to each other. The diverse scenes on a Romanesque portal of a local church are a rarity in southern Bavaria.
The accessible excavation site of the Roman fort Abusina from the year 80 is a few kilometers away in the district of Eining .

literature

Eduard Albrecht: Josef Reindl, Bad Gögging, History and Guide, 1936, Part I , Heimatkundliches Blatt 2013-8 of the city of Neustadt adDonau
Eduard Albrecht: Josef Reindl, Bad Gögging, History and Guide, 1936, Part II , Heimatkundliches Blatt 2013-9 of the city of Neustadt adDonau
Gerhard Andres: The thermal and sulfur water deposits of Bad Gögging. Munich 1981
Anton Metzger: Bad Gögging, from a Roman state spa to a modern health resort. Bad Gögging 1999
Erich Griebl: 1974-1984: 10 years Tourist Association Bad Gögging , 1984
Hans Ulrich Nuber: Excavations in Bad Gögging - Roman state spa and early medieval churches , ed. from the district of Lower Bavaria, Landshut 1980
Tourist Association Bad Gögging (Ed.): Roman Museum. Roman spa and bathing in and around St. Andreas , undated

Web links

Commons : Bad Gögging - collection of images, videos and audio files

Internet presence of the health resort

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Anton Metzger: Bad Gögging from the Roman state bath to a modern health resort . Ed .: Tourist Association Bad Gögging. S. 20th ff .
↑ ^a ^b Wilhelm Volkert (Ed.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 493 .

[:0-1] A ^b ^c ^d Anton Metzger: Bad Gögging from the Roman state bath to a modern health resort . Ed .: Tourist Association Bad Gögging. S. 20th ff .

[Volkert-2] Wilhelm Volkert (Ed.): Handbook of the Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 493 .