Bad Sennfeld
Bad Sennfeld is a farm estate in the district of Sennfeld in the Lower Franconian district of Schweinfurt . Between 1841 and 1947 there was a spa in the building . Before that there was a grain mill , the Sennfelder Mühle or Weiherleinsmühle .
Geographical location
Bad Sennfeld is 2.5 km east of the city center of Schweinfurt , in the northeast of the Sennfeld district on the edge of the horticultural area. 500 m to the west is the historic center of Sennfeld with the central village square Plan and the Dreieinigkeitskirche. The Sennfelder Seenkranz stretches to the west , behind it the weir systems, as the Schweinfurt city park is called. In the north is the Hellelohe forest area. Not far north of it, the Main already flows through the Schweinfurt city area. The district of Schonungen with the district of Reichelshof begins 800 m to the east . In the south, the Löhleinsgraben flows past the Hofgut.
Healing spring
The so-called Henneberg spring rises in Bad Sennfeld. It occurs on the slope at an altitude of about 225 m above sea level. NHN because there is a fault of low tectonic efficiency on the edge of the Kissingen fault zone. The disturbance shifted the shell limestone layers, so that the minerals are pressed directly out of the middle shell limestone . The source must be referred to as a calcium sulfate hydrogen carbonate source because these are the predominant components. Their mineral content is 2.2 g / kg with increased iron and carbonic acid levels. It drains in the direction of the Sennfelder Seenkranzes.
history
Weiherleinsmühle
The Weiherleinsmühle was built in 1702. Your medium- sized mill wheel was driven by the Henneberg spring. At that time, at least four main springs and several secondary springs sprang up in the boggy area around the mill. The healing power of the springs was known to the population and they were mainly used to treat scabies . In 1796, the Sennfelder oxen and cows were spared the cattle disease because they were soaked with the water from the springs. Kaspar Krug (named 1711), Johann Michael Machleid (named 1776) and his son Heinrich Machleid (1806–1841) are proven millers of the Weiherleinsmühle.
Structure of the health resort
In 1809 the Schweinfurt city physicist Elias Schmidt became aware of the mineral springs and documented them scientifically for the first time. However, the Napoleonic Wars interrupted the planned establishment of a bathing establishment. In 1841, Carl Gottfried Träger from Schweinfurt acquired the Weiherleinsmühle, had the spring grasped and set up a bath. The mill was probably never officially renamed, as late as 1883 the property was called Sennfelder Mühle. The names Bad Sennfeld and Mineralbad Sennfeld were advertised in newspapers . Träger converted the mill so that there was space for eight bathing cabinets and facilities for mud baths .
Health resort
| List of bathroom owners | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surname | Years | ||||||
| Carl Gottfried carrier | 1841-1852 | ||||||
| Georg Friedrich Schenk | 1852-1863 | ||||||
| Adam Neubert | 1863-1869 | ||||||
| August Thiermann | 1869-1872 | ||||||
| Emma Friederika Louise Heller | 1872-1877 | ||||||
| Margaretha Dorothea Knörr | 1877-1886 | ||||||
| Philipp Friedrich Youngling | 1886-1887 | ||||||
| Karolina Fleischmann | 1887-1890 | ||||||
| Felix Hofmann | 1890 | ||||||
| Schuhmann family | 1890-1913 | ||||||
| Johann Valentin Fischer | 1913-1947 | ||||||
The spring water was used in various ways in the 19th century. As a spa treatment it should help against gout , rheumatism and skin diseases. It was drunk to improve digestion. But the sludge that settled on the source shaft was also used. This helped against paralysis and metal poisoning. Showers were also given in the fall bath hall, which were also supposed to help against gout, rheumatism and slowly healing surgical wounds.
In 1843, over 2100 mud bath applications were administered. Most of the guests came from nearby Schweinfurt and were driven to the mill by a coachman. Industrialists and their relatives quickly got down in Bad Sennfeld. The son of paint manufacturer Wilhelm Sattler , Jens Sattler, was a regular in Sennfeld. The quarry stone house, which is still in operation as a restaurant, was probably built under Carl Gottfried Träger.
In 1852, Träger sold Bad Sennfeld to Georg Friedrich Schenk, who had a wall built around the complex. In 1863 the facilities were described for the first time after a new change of ownership. In addition to a residential building (today's inn) there was also the grinding mill, which was used as a so-called fall bath hall. A beer cellar was located in the garden of the property . The owners of the pool leased the facilities to a pool attendant and a landlord, temporarily in the same hand.
The Bad Sennfeld expanded its customer base in the second half of the 19th century through advertisements in the newspapers in the area, especially in the Schweinfurter Tagblatt and the Würzburger Journal . Following the example of nearby Bad Kissingen, spa concerts were also started. The end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 was marked with a big festival. The buildings were renovated for the first time in 1873.
Under the owner, Philipp Friedrich Jüngling, the Institute for Magnetism and Massage was established in 1887 on the premises of the bath and experimented with alternative healing methods. The owner Babetta Schuhmann tried to increase the number of visitors with several attractions: In 1902 a traveling cinematograph stopped in Sennfeld, in 1904 an “air carousel” was created, and in the same year a chamber of art and curiosities made a guest appearance in Bad Sennfeld.
| Visitor numbers | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| year | Guests | ||||||
| 1852 | 176 | ||||||
| 1878 | 215 | ||||||
| 1895 | 20th | ||||||
| 1913 | 400 | ||||||
In 1913, the Schweinfurt architect Johann Valentin Fischer bought the bathroom, which was meanwhile rather shabby. He had the source analyzed according to the latest scientific standards and made the first sketches for an extension of the bath. The beginning of the First World War delayed the execution, in the following period the bath was also recommended to war invalids. In 1927, Fischer received permission to expand the facility, but not to the extent originally planned.
The new bathroom was inaugurated on July 23, 1927. The bathhouse had been extended and the south side of the main building was provided with a semicircular waiting room with a veranda . The Henneberg spring was newly framed and ended with a pitched glass roof. Fischer also had a so-called Seitz filter installed in order to be able to sell the water from the spring as mineral water in the future . A bottling plant was probably also housed in the premises. The new facility, however, no longer attracted enough audience.
Decline of the spa business
During the Second World War , the bathing industry, which had previously been sluggish, fell asleep. The old spa house with a small spa park and old trees is still used for gastronomy today. The water now runs unused into the village lake of the Sennfelder Seenkranz.
In 2006, the Sennfeld community made efforts to revive the tradition of the spa and a group of friends and work groups was set up, which was supported primarily by Mayor Emil Heinemann.
Spa building
The bath was first described in 1845. At that time there was only a very small bathhouse next to the existing mill buildings. The ensemble, which has since grown significantly, can be seen on a postcard from around 1900. A single-storey extension was built next to the quarry-stone main house. There was also a fall pool hall. The bath owner's house had been built above the beer cellar in the garden. It is unclear whether a so-called garden roundabout existed.
During the renovations in 1927, the bathing building was extended to accommodate space for sulfur-carbonic acid baths and a doctor's office. A waiting room with a veranda was built on the south side of the bathhouse. On the north side of the main house, a boiler house had been built before 1873 , the chimney of which was about 10.5 m high. The boiler house and chimney were demolished in the 20th century.
The spring was framed with a glass roof for the first time in 1914. In 1927 it was renewed and equipped with a blind fan and glass panes. After 1947 the roof was replaced by a massive flat roof . In 1970 there was a concrete shaft, which was covered by a pyramid-shaped iron frame roof. Two cast-iron pipes led the water from the spring into a natural stone-lined canal that led into the so-called black hole .
See also
literature
- Douglas Dashwood-Howard: The story of Bad Sennfeld 1841-1947. Told using contemporary newspaper ads, mortgage books, and data from other sources . Sennfeld² 2010.
- Karl-Ernst Quentin: The medicinal and mineral springs of Northern Bavaria (= Geologica Bavarica No. 62) . Munich 1970.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quentin, Karl-Ernst: The healing and mineral springs of Northern Bavaria . P. 215 f.
- ↑ Dashwood-Howard, Douglas: The story of Bad Sennfeld . P. 31.
- ↑ Dashwood-Howard, Douglas: The story of Bad Sennfeld . Pp. 25-29.
- ↑ Dashwood-Howard, Douglas: The story of Bad Sennfeld . P. 61.
- ↑ Quentin, Karl-Ernst: The healing and mineral springs of Northern Bavaria . P. 214.
- ↑ Dashwood-Howard, Douglas: The story of Bad Sennfeld . P. 221.
- ↑ Dashwood-Howard, Douglas: The story of Bad Sennfeld . P. 197 f.
- ↑ Quentin, Karl-Ernst: The healing and mineral springs of Northern Bavaria . P. 214.
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 42.2 ″ N , 10 ° 16 ′ 5.6 ″ E