Well house Bad Gleichenberg

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Former well house, behind it the former well water filling building
Ceiling painting above the sources by Wolfgang Buchner
Brief description of the drinking cure in the Brunnenhaus

The Bad Gleichenberg fountain house is a former fountain house with a drinking hall in the municipality of Bad Gleichenberg in Styria . The building is a listed building and has been used as a museum on the history of the spa since 2012 .

history

The doctor Ignaz Werlè, who was a brother-in-law of Archduke Johann of Austria , published in 1822 about the water of the Johannisbrunnen and its effects. He persuaded the Gubernial Vice Director for Styria Matthias Constantin Capello von Wickenburg to visit the Sulzleithen near Gleichenberg and to the Johannisbrunnen near Straden. A financial outlay of 80,000 guilders was estimated for the establishment of a spa in Gleichenberg and the Gleichenberger-Actien-Verein was formed and constituted on May 10, 1834 in Graz. First, the filling house or manipulation building was built in Sulzleithen in 1835/1836 and in 1837 the fountain temple over the Constantine spring and other necessary health resort buildings were built. The first spa season in 1837 from May to the end of September had 118 spa guests from the upper class.

architecture

After the destruction of the liberation of Austria at the end of the Second World War, the fountain house was rebuilt around 1950 according to the plans of the architect Karl Lebwohl above the Constantine Spring. The architecture took up the pavilion-like shape of the former fountain temple. The building has the shape of a cylinder with a conical roof , on which a lantern with a knob-like spherical roof was placed in the middle . There are five tall windows in the northern semicircle of the outer wall. The southern semicircle of the outer wall was designed in a quarter circle with lower glazing with five columns as the entrance side. The bowl-shaped ceiling under the conical roof shows the round window of the lantern and the ceiling painting Above the Sources by the painter Wolfgang Buchner (1990). The original drinking fountain from 1950 for the Konstantinquelle and Mariannenquelle is no longer in operation. The water of the drinking cure was given out on the circular balustrade that surrounds the drinking fountain .

Curmuseum

In the former Kurmittelhaus, which was destroyed in the course of the fighting at the end of the Second World War, there was a cur museum, which went down with all the objects there. In 2011 the Curmuseum was restarted in the Brunnenhaus. The exhibition clearly shows the development of the health resort since it was founded 180 years ago. The Johannisbrunnen medicinal water is offered to visitors free of charge for tasting.

literature

  • Ria Mang: ... and I love this corner of the earth. ( Peter Rosegger ). A historical overview of the health resort Bad Gleichenberg. From the archive of the spa director Willy Rauch. Vehling Medienservice und Verlag, Graz 2007, ISBN 978-3-85333-142-2 .
  • Ria Mang: Season in Gleichenberg. Vehling Medienservice und Verlag, Graz 2012, ISBN 978-3-85333-212-2 .

Web links

Commons : Brunnenhaus at the Kurmittelhaus, Bad Gleichenberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 52 ′ 31.6 "  N , 15 ° 54 ′ 44.7"  E