Bad Rotenbrunnen

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Bad Rotenbrunnen in Sonntag in the Great Walsertal in Vorarlberg .

The Bad Rotenbrunnen (also "Rottenbrunnen" or "Rothenbrunnen" or "Baneum rubenum", 1010  m above sea level ) is a spa in Sonntag , Buchboden , in the Gadental, in ( Vorarlberg , Austria ) and is located on the plot "Bad Rotenbrunnen" at Rotenbrunnenbach. Today it is an inn and seminar house.

Bad Rotenbrunnen, with the chapel located there (Maria Visitation), is a listed building.

Naming

Bad Rotenbrunnen takes its name from the healing water that arises here, which leaves a red-brown appearance on the objects in it.

history

The exact beginning of the use of the mineral spring in Bad Rotenbrunnen is not known. There is a legend about this. Ulrich Ellenbog (1435–1499) mentioned the bath in a treatise on baths, the “Baneum rubenum”, and the reformer Johannes Bernhardi (1490–1534) from Schlins chose the pseudonym “ Hanns Walser zum Roten Brunnen ” in 1521 and there was a bath booklet from the The year 1651, after which the mineral spring was used by miners in earlier times.

This bath booklet was published in 1651 by Laurentius Gruebenmann, physicist in Ravensburg , who visited the “Rothen Brunnen” for the then owner of the bath, the abbot, Dominikus I. Laymann (1598–1673), from Weingarten Monastery , and tried and examined the healing water as well as various healings reported. Weingarten Monastery had u. a. bought the bath in 1648. As early as 1643, in a manuscript by Frater Damian, the monastery pharmacist of Weingarten Abbey, an initial examination of the medicinal water can be found.

In 1666, Father Gabriel Bucelin complained that men and women use the bathroom " without distinction or discretion ".

In the course of the secularization of Weingarten Monastery in 1802/03 it lost the rule of Blumenegg and Bad Rotenbrunnen was sold to Johann Anton Bischof from Buchboden (municipality of Sonntag). In 1810 the inn was bought by the innkeeper of the Krone inn, Anton Müller, from Sonntag, who also took care of the medical and spiritual welfare of his guests by commissioning a doctor and a priest. Around 1860 Konradin Moser was the "bathroom manager" and looked after the guests together with his sister, Susanna. When Konradin Moser died in 1886, the property was auctioned for 2500 guilders (estimate 12,000 guilders). On September 29, 1901, the property was bought by Franz Anton Bertel from Buchboden and sold in the same year for 7,000 guilders to a co-ownership community, which brought in considerable funds for renovation, so that the bath could be reopened in 1902. During the First World War , the bath was sold to August Weil from Zurich, whose widow sold it in 1954 to Anton Fenkart (died 1975), who converted it and established it as a holiday and excursion destination for hikers and built a small power station. The power plant was renewed in 2005/06.

In 1908 a monograph on Bad Rotenbrunnen was published by Pastor Hartmann under the pseudonym “Montanus”.

Bathing and healing spring

The originally seven healing springs were cold iron-containing springs (steel baths) that were collected. Particularly noteworthy about the healing water is the high proportion of sulphate of lime ( gypsum ) and the large amount of solid residues, a composition that is not found in any other medicinal spring investigated in Vorarlberg. The springs arise about 500 m south, above the Bad Rotenbrunnen, on the banks of the Matona stream.

The first wedding of the bath took place around the middle of the 19th century.

The medicinal water is said to help with chronic rashes, hypochondria , hysteria , stone problems, hemorrhoids , abnormalities and menstrual cramps .

Today the mineral spring is no longer used commercially, seasonal F. X. Mayr cures and massages are offered under medical supervision.

Geography / topography

Bad Rotenbrunnen is east of the Rotenbrunnenbach and has house no. Buchboden 29. The bath is located about in the middle of the community of Sonntag, about 6 km from the center of the village and yet far away from the populated area of ​​the municipality of Sonntag, about 15 km as the crow flies from the city center from Bludenz and about 35 km from Lake Constance . All around is the Großes Walsertal biosphere reserve .

The "Badhütta" plot is located around 300 m south of the current location of Bad Rotenbrunnen. To the west, above Bad Rotenbrunnen, there is the Rotenbrunnenwald (also: Rotenbrunnenwold) and the Duftwold.

Behind the bath, in a southerly direction, the Gadental European Protected Area extends over 1,550  hectares .

chapel

In 1687 a chapel was built to the northwest of the bathhouse, which replaced an older wayside shrine . The chapel was demolished in the Biedermeier period (around 1835). A house chapel was set up in the guest house in Bad Rotenbrunnen for a few years until a new chapel was built in 1860.

In the chapel there was an image of Mary, which was dedicated by Weingarten Abbey with the inscription: St. Virgo and her dearest child . And the note at the other end: renovated in 1747 . In 1882 a new altar was built and stations of the cross were added. The image of Mary disappeared around this time and was no longer found.

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 Rotenbrunnen with Chapel (Sunday)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b See also: Management plan Natura-2000 Gadental-Alpschellen area , 2002/03, of the Vorarlberg state government .
  2. ↑ ObjectID: 71950.
  3. ^ Josef Zehenter, Mineralquellen Vorarlbergs , 1895, page 172.
  4. ↑ Eduard Jos Koch, " Treatise on mineral springs in a general scientific relationship and description of all known baths and health wells in the Austrian monarchy ", Vienna 1843, Pichler, Volume 1, p. 179.
  5. ^ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 119.
  6. ↑ Short report and description of the wonderful and haylsamen fountain / the Rothe fountain called / sampt the opportunity / origin and content / its metals, minerals, earth plants, nature / Crafft / and Würckungen ... , printed by Bartholome Schnell in Hohenems .
  7. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 119 ff.
  8. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 121.
  9. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 123 f.
  10. ^ Johann Türtscher, Buchboden pilgrimage church 1687 - 1987 , Festschrift, Innsbruck 1987, Tyrolia publishing house, p. 9.
  11. ^ Johann Türtscher, Buchboden pilgrimage church 1687 - 1987 , Festschrift, Innsbruck 1987, Tyrolia publishing house, p. 10.
  12. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 123 f.
  13. ↑ Illwerke Magazin ( Memento from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), No. 7, October 2008, p. 14 f.
  14. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 121.
  15. ^ Josef Zehenter, Mineralquellen Vorarlbergs , 1895, page 171.
  16. ^ Josef Zehenter, Mineralquellen Vorarlbergs , 1895, page 172.
  17. ↑ Eduard Jos Koch, " Treatise on mineral springs in a general scientific relationship and description of all known baths and health wells in the Austrian monarchy ", Vienna 1843, Pichler, Volume 1, p. 179.
  18. ↑ The Rotenbrunnenbach drains into the main river of the Great Walsertal , the Lutz, at around GwKm 21.79 .
  19. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 122.
  20. ^ Johann Türtscher, Buchboden pilgrimage church 1687 - 1987 , Festschrift, Innsbruck 1987, Tyrolia publishing house, p. 11.
  21. ^ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 123.
  22. ^ Johann Türtscher, Buchboden pilgrimage church 1687 - 1987 , Festschrift, Innsbruck 1987, Tyrolia publishing house, p. 11.

Coordinates: 47 ° 14 ′ 24.3 "  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 44.4"  E