Bad Nofels

Kneipp-Kurhaus Bad Nofels, Sebastian-Kneipp-Strasse 25 in Nofels, Feldkirch , Vorarlberg , Austria .

The Bad Nofels (also "Nofler Bädle", 440  m above sea level ) was a spa (now Kneipp-Kurhaus Bad Nofels) located in Nofels , Feldkirch municipality in ( Vorarlberg , Austria ).

history

The beginning of the bathing operation in Bad Nofels is not known. According to oral tradition, the healing spring is said to have been used as early as Roman times . In 1514 the Nofler Bad (at the previous location near the border to Liechtenstein) was first mentioned in a document (Zehnerlibell). The historian, physician and astrologer Achilles Pirminius Gasser (1505–1577) is said to have positively mentioned the Nofler spa and there is also a reference to this spa in the Emser Chronicle of 1616 (see Schwefel-Bad (Hohenems) ). The mineral spring and its regional importance were also praised by the chronicler Johann Georg Prugger in 1685.

In the 18th century the bath was sold to a man named Eberle, who bought it from Jakob Abbrederis. In 1760 the bath was handed over to the bath and surgeon Balthasar Melk (1720-1800) who brought it to a first wedding. After his death, his son, Josef Melk, took over the spa and sold it in 1836 to Fidel Weber, who had it extensively renovated.

From 1854 to 1882 there was a “ poor house ” at the old location of Bad Nofel.

In 1903 the entire property of the old Bad Nofel burns down. The Kneipp-Kurhaus Bad Nofels, which exists today, was rebuilt in 1904 by Josef Biedermann about 800 m as the crow flies northeast on the road to Liechtenstein (closer to the center of Nofels) and expanded in 1926 by building a new guest house. In 1928 the regular Kneipp spa was started. The first sauna in the Vorarlberger Oberland was opened here in 1949. The healing bath water of the sulfur spring was pumped up from the spring to the new bath.

In 1926, an emergency meeting of the state parliament of the Principality of Liechtenstein regarding the rescue of Ruggell took place in the Kneipp spa in Nofels , which involved urgent assistance for the victims of the communities of Ruggell and Gamprin . Some of the assistance required for this was made available.

Bathing and healing spring

The healing spring is said to have been a cold, potassium sulfur spring. The healing effects are said to have had a positive effect on chronic rashes, rheumatism and gout.

The peak of the use of the mineral spring was in the middle of the 18th to the middle of the 19th century. At that time Bad Nofels was also a social center for citizens and military personnel.

The healing spring has now dried up, today's Bad Nofels (Nofler Bädle) is a Kneipp spa house . In Eduard Jos Koch's treatise from 1843: “ A treatise on mineral springs in a general scientific context and description of all baths and wells known in the Austrian monarchy ”, the bath is only briefly mentioned along with other sulfur springs in Feldkirch.

The old bath had a bath chapel.

Geography / topography

The old Nofler Bad, which was about 150 m from the border with Liechtenstein , was about 200 m from the road near the Badwald. The old bath is almost at the westernmost point of the state of Vorarlberg (see: Bangs ). Even today, many surrounding parcels of land are reminiscent of this location (examples): Badwald , Bim alta Bad , Badried , Beim Bad , Badteile , Badrütte . The Badbächle (also called Badgraben ) runs about 100 m north of the old baths .

The "new" bath (Kneipp spa) is also located on the Badbächle (only about 70 m from the stream). However, there are no surrounding parcels of land that indicate direct use for this bathroom. The Kneipp spa is at house number 25 and is located on Sebastian-Kneipp-Straße, about 500 m from the center of Nofels (parish church Maria Heimsuchung).

The Kneipp spa is located around 2.5 km as the crow flies from Feldkirch city center and around 28 km from Lake Constance .

literature

• Kamill Bröll, The Kneipp Kurhaus Schwefel- und Naturheilbad Feldkirch-Nofels , Feldkirch 1931, Unterberger Verlag.
• Franz A. Schatzmann, local history of the old community Altenstadt, small pictures u. Essays , Nofels 1918.
• 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 : Nofels  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Feldkirch healing springs and baths
• Sagen.at: The sunken bath
• Sagen.at: Bad Nofels

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Feldkircher healing springs and baths and Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 105.
2. ^ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 105.
3. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 105 and Bad Nofels at tell.at.
4. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 105 f.
5. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 106.
6. ↑ City of Feldkirch: Senior Citizens Care House Nofels ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 106. 
7. ^ Sagen.at: The sunken bath and Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 106.
8. ↑ The Kneipp spa is now operated by Biedermann KG, Kneippkurhaus - Bad Nofels .
9. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 106.
10. ^ Protocols of the Landtag 1862-1949 from September 28, 1927
11. ^ New archive for history, political science, literature and art, 2nd edition, Volume 21 , Vienna 1830, p. 625.
12. ↑ Vienna 1843, Pichler, Volume 1, p. 179 f.
13. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 106.

Coordinates: 47 ° 15 '12.9 "  N , 9 ° 43' 4.1"  E