Bathing establishment Brausenwerth

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Brausenwerther Platz with the imperial monument, city theater (center) and swimming pool (right), around 1895.

The Badeanstalt Brausenwerth (also Stadtbad Elberfeld or Stadtbad Brausenwerth ) was a bathing establishment that existed from 1887 to 1943 at Brausenwerther Platz 3 in Elberfeld (from 1929 it belonged to Wuppertal ).

history

Staff of the Brausenwerth bathing establishment, 1930.

The slaughterhouse on Brausenwerth , which opened in 1829, ceased operations in 1879. After that, the building served as a warehouse until it had to give way for the new construction of the municipal bathing establishment. In the neighboring towns of Barmen and Elberfeld, from which the town of Wuppertal was formed in 1929 , various bathing establishments for "tubs and shower baths" were set up, often combined with a swimming pool, which served to enable the many residents without their own bathroom to have regular personal hygiene.

In 1885 the construction of the bath next to the Hotel Kaiserhof began; it was inaugurated on July 16, 1887. The facility's lighting was electrified. The opening times of the bathing establishment were 6.30 a.m. to 8.45 p.m.

Two statues with lions were made according to a design by the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch from 1833. Originally the two lions stood in front of the building of the Old Elberfeld Town Hall (today's Von der Heydt Museum ). Because of the increasing traffic, they were removed from there in 1877, stored in a warehouse on Neuenteich for ten years and placed in front of the entrance after the opening of the bathing establishment. The Stadttheater am Brausenwerth was built between the Wupper and the bathing establishment by 1888 .

The bath and its surrounding buildings were destroyed in the air raid on Elberfeld in 1943 , the ruins were removed and not rebuilt. In its place today the federal highway 7 crosses the valley of the Wupper.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Günther: Wuppertal in early photographs. 1880-1945. Sutton-Verlag, Wuppertal 2013. ISBN 3-95400-176-4 . P. 33.
  2. ↑ garbage history in Wuppertal. AWG Abfallwirtschaftsgesellschaft, Wuppertal 2006. ISBN 3-00-019280-8 . P. 20.
  3. ^ Horst Heidermann : Johann Richard Seel, painter in Wuppertal and draftsman of the German Michel. Thales, 2003. ISBN 3-88908-492-3 , p. 21.
  4. ^ Marc Mondorf: Elberfeld district. In: marc-mondorf.de
  5. ^ Fritz Dieter Erbslöh: The early electrical central systems in the neighboring towns of Elberfeld and Barmen. Examples of the emergence of municipal power supplies. P. Lang, 1995. ISBN 3-631-47761-9 . Pp. 23, 105, 107.
  6. ↑ Detlef Schmitz: Greeting on the 100th anniversary of the Elberfelder Südstadt citizens' association. V. ( Memento of the original from May 27, 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. In: buergerverein-elberfelder-suedstadt.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buergerverein-elberfelder-suedstadt.de
  7. ↑ Jan Niko Kirschbaum: The Elberfeld Lions. In: denkmal-wuppertal.de
  8. ↑ 1888–1943 The metropolitan square. ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2015 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. In: wuppertal.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wuppertal.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '22.1 "  N , 7 ° 9' 4.3"  E