Dapper sanatorium

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Former Dapper sanatorium in Bad Kissingen, today Dappers Hotel
Embankment wall and stairs

The Dapper Sanatorium at Menzelstrasse 21 in Bad Kissingen , the major district town of the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen , is one of the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and is registered in the Bavarian Monument List under number D-6-72-114-74 . Today the property is home to the Dappers Hotel wellness resort .

history

The property was originally built in different colored sandstone in the years 1893 and 1894 according to plans by the Bad Kissingen architect Carl Krampf in the neo-renaissance style. At the same time, the embankment wall and the stairs in front of the house were built.

The property originally housed the Dr. Dapper , which was one of the most famous sanatoriums in the area around 1900. The lead doctors Dr. Carl Holzer and Dr. Hans Fronius were later replaced by the assistant doctor Dr. Karl Lechmann added, who later opened his own sanatorium on Altenberg . Other buildings that no longer exist today also belonged to the sanatorium; they were all connected by arcades.

In 1910 the property was redesigned by Carl Krampf's brother Franz Krampf . It received a French roof and a curved gable . From the original neo-renaissance style of the property, the frames and roofing of the windows and the corner cuboids have been preserved in the façade. The former towers on the now rounded corners of the house no longer exist. After the global economic crisis of 1929, Dapper had to give up the sanatorium due to the falling number of guests. Today the property houses the Residence Dapper.

In 1934, following the advice of his publisher Otto Fürstner , the composer Richard Strauss completed his first stay at the Dappers sanatorium. In this context, Strauss' wife Pauline reported on her husband's daily walks in Ballinghain . Strauss himself thanked Bath Commissioner Rudolf Conrath for the lovely stay in Bad Kissingen and the gala concert of the Munich Philharmonic Regentenbau on the occasion of his upcoming 70th birthday. Up until 1936 Richard Strauss and his wife came to the Dappersche sanatorium for a cure twice a year. He tried in vain to the Bad Kissinger Kurorchester to get them, even Mozart and Schubert to play and worked on the opera of Peace . After Dapper's death in 1937, Strauss did not return to Bad Kissingen until 1939 and stayed in the Kurhaus hotel .

Shortly before the Dapper sanatorium was sold to the Berliner Landesversicherung, Federal President Theodor Heuss came to the sanatorium twice for a cure. During his first stay visited between 3 April 1954, the native interested in history Heuss the St. Mary Magdalene Parish Church in Münnerstadt , the school and the convent of the place, the nun Roth in Burkard Rother district Mrs Roth and St. John the Baptist parish church and the Saaleck Castle in Hammelburg . During his second spa stay from May 5, 1955, Heuss visited Münnerstadt again. During both spa stays, he made drawings of the area, which later went into private ownership.

Other spa guests in the sanatorium included the operetta composer Oscar Straus , Konrad Adenauer's financial advisor Robert Pferdmenges , actor Akim Tamiroff and fashion designer Heinz Oestergaard .

  • Original layout of the Dapper sanatorium
    (drawing by Carl Krampf , 1894)

  • Richard Strauss memorial plaque

literature

  • Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 70 f .
  • Peter Ziegler: Richard Strauss , Thomas Ahnert, Peter Weidisch (eds.): 1200 years Bad Kissingen, 801–2001, facets of a city's history . Festschrift for the anniversary year and accompanying volume for the exhibition of the same name. Special publication of the Bad Kissingen city archive. Verlag TA Schachenmayer, Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-929278-16-2 , pp. 125-126
  • Gerhard Wulz: The chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen. A guide with short biographies , Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-934912-04-4 , p. 23
  • Der Rosenkavalier - Richard Strauss , in: Peter Ziegler: Prominence on promenade paths. Emperors, kings, artists, spa guests in Bad Kissingen. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-87717-809-X , pp. 269-275.
  • Kissinger water is the most valuable, Bocksbeutel the best ... - Theodor Heuss , in: Peter Ziegler: Prominence on promenade paths. Emperors, kings, artists, spa guests in Bad Kissingen. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-87717-809-X , pp. 289-294.

Web links

Commons : Menzelstraße 21 (Bad Kissingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 '43.01 "  N , 10 ° 4' 52.21"  O