Bathing rooms in Leipzig

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The bathhouses in Leipzig (also bathhouses ) served as in other cities in the Middle Ages and the early modern period as public bodies not only of personal hygiene, but also the medical treatment and were social venues.

history

Although only a few bathing rooms have been documented for Leipzig , they must have been at least so numerous that the Leipzig bathers and barbers had been organized in a guild since the 15th century at the latest .

The oldest customer of a bathing room in Leipzig dates from 1301, when Johann Auriga gave it to the Thomas Monastery . It was in front of the city across from the Thomas Gate on the Pleißemühlgraben . Because it was built entirely of bricks, it was also called the brickworks. It was sold to councilor Wilhelm Krämer and via the city in 1624 to Friedrich Werner and in 1642 to Hans Breitenfeld. Since the building was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War , Breitenfeld separated the concession from the property and initially relocated the bathing room to the eastern end of the Brühl , roughly where the Georgenhaus later became . When he acquired the house at Burgstrasse 16 in 1645, the Baderei moved here. From then on this house was called "Thomas-Baderei". The last Thomas-Bader died in 1724 and the Baderei slowly died down. The name "Alte Baderei" remained, which is still listed for the house in the 1839 address book.

In 1558 the city council had Hieronymus Lotter (1497–1580) build a bathing room near the Ranstädter Tor at the corner of Grosse Fleischergasse. Named after the gate, it was called the Rannische Badestube. This was only demolished in 1825 when Albert Geutebrück (1801–1868) erected the classicistic building of the Großer Blumenberg here in 1826/1832 .

Another bathing room is mentioned in 1587 as the St. Katharinen bathing room. It was located on the Brühl in the later house number 23 opposite the confluence of Katharinenstrasse , where the Katharinenkapelle stood until 1546 . Later the Plauensche Hof stood on the site of the bathing room .

At the beginning of the 19th century, a multi-storey bathhouse with an octagonal floor plan, the Petersbrunnen , was built in Reichel's garden .

While the mores were sometimes quite relaxed in bathing rooms, Karl Grosse, in his History of the City of Leipzig in 1839, did not necessarily flatter the Leipzig people by writing about the bathing rooms: "On the other hand, Leipzig seems to have been too simple in its manners!"

With the improvement of medical care, the bathing rooms lost some of their tasks. The main thing that remained was body cleansing for the lower classes of the population, for which larger tubs and shower baths were built from the middle of the 19th century, such as the Sophien and Dianabad baths in Leipzig , coupled with swimming pools, and the municipal public baths .

literature

  • Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , pp. 36/37
  • Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig . (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0
  • Karl Grosse: History of the city of Leipzig from the oldest to the most recent , Volume 1, CB Polet, Leipzig 1839, pp. 172-174, (digitized)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leipzig mistakes - On the conflict between bathers and barbers in the 17th century (Ciba magazine)
  2. ^ The house names of Old Leipzig , p. 14
  3. ^ Address book 1839 , p. 109
  4. ^ The house names of Old Leipzig , p. 18
  5. ^ The house names of Old Leipzig , p. 4
  6. ^ Karl Grosse: History of the City of Leipzig ... , p. 174