Bad Kehlegg

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Bad Kehlegg.

Bad Kehlegg (also: Mineralbad Maria Schnee or Kehlegger Bad ) 760  m above sea level. A. is a former spa and inn (today only an inn) in Kehlegg , a district of the city of Dornbirn in Vorarlberg ( Austria ) and one of the oldest spa in Vorarlberg. It is located in the "Badhus" plot, below the Badwald.

Old advertising sign about the lemonade produced here on the outside wall of Bad Kehlegg.

history

The healing spring of Bad Kehlegg has been known since the 15th century. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the first high point of therapeutic bathing is said to have been.

In the 17th to 19th centuries, the bath was also used by secular priests . On October 4, 1719, Pastor Josef Vonach applied to the Ordinariat of Konstanz for a measurement license using a portable altar (altare portatile) in the thermal baths (Balneum) of Dornbirn. This portable altar was handed over to its destination in Bad Kehlegg on October 22, 1826 by Bishop Bernhard Galura in the Altenstadt church ( Feldkirch ) with the blessing and consecration of the altar stone with the walled-in relic of the martyr Maximus.

Nikolaus Rümmele (born November 5, 1736) was a Badwirt around 1784. Rudolf Zumtobel (April 26, 1870 - March 7, 1952) acquired the bathroom in 1904. It was then successfully expanded into a respected health resort. The long-standing name "Bad Maria Schnee" was changed from Rudolf Zumtobel to Bad Kehlegg. On April 30, 1929 there was a fire in the roof structure in Bad Kehlegg, caused by flying sparks from the chimney. In 1929 the bottling of mineral water began and in 1938 the production of lemonade began.

Rudolf Zumtobel's son, Oswald (1908–1965), took over the management of the company after the Second World War. He was particularly supported by his sister Flora (February 6, 1910 - July 27, 1996), who lived in Bad Kehlegg until her death. The mineral water and lemonade concession was subsequently sold to the Mohren brewery .

The main building was bought in the mid-1990s by the Dornbirn hosts, Thomas and Beate Sauter, renovated and reopened as an inn.

In 2009, some scenes from the film "The Breath of Heaven" by Reinhold Bilgeri were shot in the Bad Kehlegg inn.

Old photo on the outside wall of Bad Kehlegg.

Bathing and healing spring

The healing spring is a cold sulfur spring, similar to those in Bad Haslach in Dornbirn or in the sulfur bath in Hohenems. The bathers were brought into contact with healing water in large wooden tubs . A bathing cycle lasted 14 days. The bathing operation in Kehlegg was open from the beginning of June to the end of August, the guest house from May to November.

Geography / topography

Bad Kehlegg is about 450 m as the crow flies from the village center of Kehlegg in the middle of the forest. A forest and field path, which was built in 1884/85, leads via "Badhof" to the Schauner district (about 270 m as the crow flies).

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 .

Web links

Commons : Bad Kehlegg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Dornbirn Lexicon ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Keyword: The Portatile by Kehlegg. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lexikon.dornbirn.at
  2. ↑ Married to Regina Feuerstein (* December 23, 1883).
  3. ↑ Dornbirn Lexicon ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Keyword: "Kehlegg 41". @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lexikon.dornbirn.at
  4. ↑ Dornbirn Lexicon ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Keyword: "Kehlegg 41". @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lexikon.dornbirn.at
  5. ^ Announcements from the Dornbirn History Workshop , issue June 4, 2006, p. 11, as well as: “ Stubat, newspaper of the city of Dornbirn designed with and for seniors ”, June 2013 / No. 75, p. 8 ff.
  6. ↑ Dornbirn Lexicon ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Keyword: "Bad Kehlegg". @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lexikon.dornbirn.at
  7. ^ Website of the Gasthaus Bad Kehlegg
  8. ↑ First day of shooting for “Der Atem des Himmels” , vol.at from August 20, 2009.
  9. ↑ Eduard Jos Koch in “ Treatise on mineral springs in general scientific relation and description of all baths and wells known in the Austrian monarchy ”, Vienna 1843, Pichler, Volume 1, p. 180; and O. Wigand, “ Archiv der Heilkunde ”, 1876, Volume 17, p. 108.
  10. ↑ Dornbirn Lexicon ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Keyword: "Kehlegg 41". @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lexikon.dornbirn.at
  11. ↑ Belongs to the Schauner gang.

Coordinates: 47 ° 24 ′ 16.2 ″  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 57.2 ″  E