Byzantine bath (Thessaloniki)

The Byzantine Bath today

The Byzantine bath ( Greek Βυζαντινό λουτρό ) is a bathing facility in Thessaloniki . It is located on Theotokopoúlou Street in the northeast of the city center and has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage since 1988 ( early Christian and Byzantine buildings in Thessaloniki ).

history

The bath, which was operated until 1940 and has been redesigned several times, probably dates from the end of the 13th or beginning of the 14th century.

investment

The bath originally consisted of a frigidarium (cold bath), tepidarium and caldarium. The inner walls of the frigidarium were torn down in Turkish times. The passage between the two towers of the tepidarium and the caldarium was closed to create separate facilities for men and women. One of the square halls of the caldarium is covered by a flat dome resting on an eight-sided drum with eight windows , the other with a lower dome in the shape of a hemisphere. A heatable water basin connects to the north of the two halls.

literature

• A. Xyngopoulos: Βυζαντινός λουτρών εν Θεσσαλονίκη , Epistimonkií Epetirís tis Filosofikís Scholís tou Aristotelíou Panepistimí Thessaloníkis 5 (1940), 83-97.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UNESCO World Heritage List - Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika (English)
2. ↑ K. Kourkoutidou-Nikolaïdou / A. Tourta: Walks through Byzantine Thessaloniki. Athens 1997: Kapon Editions. P. 88. ISBN 960-7254-48-1

Coordinates: 40 ° 38 ′ 57.6 "  N , 22 ° 58 ′ 8.9"  E