Bad Röthis

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Heilbad Röthis - Hotel Eden in Röthis.

The Bad Röthis ( 520  m above sea level. A. ) was in Röthis ( Vorarlberg , Austria lying) Spa and Inn (now Hotel Eden) and lies in the plot "Bädle" at the Bath Street.

history

The beginning of the bathing operation in Bad Röthis is not known. For the years 1610 and 1615 it is documented that the master bathroom manager Georg Wirth (also: Württ, Würth, died on September 11, 1644) took out a loan from the Frühmeßpfründe. In the Stockurbar 1618 it is recorded that Georg Würth paid 10 Schilling Pfennig annually . His son, Fidel Würth, died in Bad Röthis in 1653. For 1732 and 1739 land purchases from the community by the master bathroom manager Johannes Zimmermann, who was also the landlord in Bad Röthis in 1754, are documented. In 1784 a bathroom manager, Katharina Frick, is occupied, in 1796 the bathroom manager Anton Welte and from 1798 again from the Zimmermann family, Franz Josef Zimmermann. In 1804 Bad Röthis was acquired by Josef Kaduff from Graubünden , who, however, sold it to Johann Heinzle from Götzis again a short time later . In 1809, the couple Josef Kilga (died 1833) and Maria Anna (nee Mayer) bought the bath and residential building including the arbor, the "lower house" with bowling alley, in which a bakery was operated at that time and the healing springs, for 2400 guilders Plots belonging to Bad, the wood rights, reed parts and the so-called "Badwaldung" behind the Bachtobel. From 1833 the son of Josef and Maria Anna Kilga, Alois, ran Bad Röthis and sold it in 1855 to his wife, Maria Magdalena Kilga (née Nesensohn). After her death in 1859, the ownership of Bad Röthis was transferred to her son, Alois Kilga jun. (died August 27, 1878) inherited. A few years later, the lost main source of the spa was found again and the spa was renovated. On December 11, 1878, Alois Kilga junior's widow, Katharina Kilga (nee Kees), received the ownership of Bad Röthis. In 1896, Johann Bertschler from Feldkirch - Levis , Michael Loacker from Rankweil and Alois Breuss from Sulz acquired the bath including barn and stables, drinking hall and cellar and bath facilities, but it was auctioned off the same year. The spouses Johann and Magdalena Galvan (later the Hausmann-Galvan family), who came from Borgo ( South Tyrol ) bought the Bad Röthis from the auction , leased it to the Gorbach ( Lingenau ) siblings for two years and ran the bath themselves from 1898 and stayed until 1941 Owner.

In 1898, the Vorarlberger Landeszeitung also advertised Bad Röthis and said that Bad Röthis was mentioned as having a healing spring as early as the beginning of the 17th century.

The bath was not in use for a few years at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1941 it was acquired by the Bärenzung family, who still run the Hotel Eden to this day.

On August 1, 1948, bathing operations with three bathrooms and two Turkish baths were resumed. In the spring of 1949, a sanatorium for internal medicine was set up on the initiative of the doctor Edwin Albrich . In 1950 Edwin Albrich left Bad Röthis and a nursing home for convalescents was set up. In 1951 the bathing business was stopped and since then there has only been a hotel with 60 beds today.

Bathing and healing spring

The healing springs were weak, cold sulfur springs, similar to the one in Bad Haslach in Dornbirn.

In Eduard Jos Koch's treatise from 1843: " A treatise on mineral springs in a general scientific relationship and description of all baths and wells known in the Austrian monarchy ", the Röthis bath was not mentioned. It is mentioned in passing in the " Archive of Medicine ". In Mineralquellen Vorarlberg by Josef Zehenter, 1895, two springs in use for the spa operation of Bad Röthis are mentioned and an analysis of the water by the pharmacist Louis Kofler from Dornbirn.

The medicinal water is said to have helped against rheumatism, nervous disorders, gout, narrow breasts, anemia and stomach problems.

When bathing, those seeking salvation were originally brought into contact with the water in wooden tubs and then in bathtubs. There was a restaurant and a bowling alley for diversion. Masses were allowed to be read in Bad Röthis' own house chapel. The water was “conducted in pipes to the boiler house. The water that collects in the latter is heated there as required in two huge boilers and from there fed through iron pipes into the individual bathtubs; the cold water is also fed from the same location. "

Geography / topography

The Frödisch (river) at the beginning of the Frödisch valley, in the background above a part of Viktorsberg .

Bad Röthis is located about 700 m from the village center of Röthis, 8 km from Feldkirch and 28 km from Lake Constance , at the entrance to the Frödisch valley . On the north-western side, the Mühlbach runs past the bathhouse.

The Badstrasse leading past Bad Röthis / Hotel Eden is still reminiscent of the former bathing establishment.

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 : Bad Röthis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Hotel Eden - Website of the municipality with a historical review

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bad Röthis ( Memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), p. 310 with reference to the Röthis parish archive, church accounting book I / 81a.
  2. ↑ Bad Röthis ( Memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), p. 310.
  3. ^ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , S. 87.
  4. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , S. 87 f.
  5. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 89
  6. ↑ Bad Röthis ( Memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), p. 310; and: Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 89
  7. ↑ See also: The streets of Röthis and their history (Part 1) by Emir T. Uysal, vol.at, May 20, 2013.
  8. ↑ Voderlandhus Zitig , 14th edition, Röthis, June 2014, p. 16 f.
  9. ↑ Bad Röthis ( Memento of December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), p. 310.
  10. ↑ Voderlandhus Zitig , 14th edition, Röthis, June 2014, p. 16 f.
  11. ↑ Vienna 1843, Pichler, Volume 1, p. 179 f.
  12. ↑ 1876, Otto Wigand Verlag, Volume 17, p. 108.
  13. ↑ Voderlandhus Zitig , 14th edition, Röthis, June 2014, p. 16 f.
  14. ^ The streets of Röthis and their history (Part 1) by Emir T. Uysal, vol.at, May 20, 2013.
  15. ↑ Voderlandhus Zitig , 14th edition, Röthis, June 2014, p. 16 f.
  16. ^ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , S. 87.
  17. ↑ Voderlandhus Zitig , 14th edition, Röthis, June 2014, p. 16 f.
  18. ^ The streets of Röthis and their history (Part 1) by Emir T. Uysal, vol.at, May 20, 2013.

Coordinates: 47 ° 17 ′ 33.6 ″  N , 9 ° 40 ′ 0.5 ″  E