Brunnhaus Fager
The Brunnhaus Fager is next to the Brunnhaus Seebichl one of two well-preserved wells in Bad Reichenhall of the brine pipeline to Traunstein . Two other wells - Nagling and Grub - are located in Weißbach on the Alpenstrasse
The Brunnhaus and the outbuilding on the opposite side of the street are under monument protection and are registered in the Bavarian Monument List under the number D-1-72-114-186 .
history
When another abundant brine source was discovered during repair work in the salt works in Bad Reichenhall , they did not want to leave it unused. However, since a lot of wood was needed as fuel to produce salt by boiling, it was not possible to provide unlimited amounts of wood in the city. The forests around the city had already been cleared and the firewood procured from the Bavarian Saalforste by means of a wood drift across the Saalach was no longer sufficient for this amount of brine. It was therefore decided to transport the water via a wooden pipe to a branch saline in Traunstein in order to process it into salt. There was enough wood in the upper reaches of the Traun that was still in the possession of the Bavarian dukes. Between 1617 and 1619 Hanns Reiffenstuel and his son Simon set up the brine pipeline to Traunstein. With a piston pressure pump specially developed by Simon Reiffenstuel for this purpose , the brine was able to overcome a height difference of 340 meters in total and then - using the natural gradient - flowed to the next well or to the destination, the Saline in Traunstein.
Building description
The current Brunnhaus Fager was probably built in 1800 during the renovation of the brine pipeline by Georg von Reichenbach . Nothing is left of the historical technology, nor of the later water column machines installed by Reichenbach . The elevated tank for the brine is also not preserved. The fountain house itself is a two-story plastered building with a half-hipped roof , the outbuilding on the opposite side of the street is designed in the same way, but only on the ground floor.
location
The Brunnhaus is located on Alte Thumseestrasse, house number 46, just before the junction with Staatsstrasse 2101 .
Origin of name
The Brunnhaus is named after the dialed Castle Vague (or Fager), which was located above the Brunn house.
Web links
literature
- Johannes Lang : History of Bad Reichenhall. Ph.CW Schmidt, Neustadt / Aisch 2009, ISBN 978-3-87707-759-7 .
- Herbert Pfisterer: Bad Reichenhall in its Bavarian history. Motor + Touristik-Verlag, Munich, 1988
Coordinates: 47 ° 43 '10.6 " N , 12 ° 51' 4.6" E