Archduke Johann Source

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  • Archduke Johann Quelle in Sauerbrunn near Marhof, Styria

  • Signpost to the mineral spring fountain

  • Well system 2013

  • Park by the fountain of the Archduke Johann Spring

  • Well and basin at the outlet

  • History and water values

  • Rules for drawing water

  • Spring catchment building

  • Pipe bridge over the Stainzbach

  • Version of the healing spring

  • Advertisement from 1879

The Erzherzog-Johann-Quelle , also called Stainzer Johannesquelle , Johannisquelle , Stainz-Teufenbacher Säuerling , Erzherzogs-Quelle , is a healing spring in Sauerbrunn in western Styria .

The name of the spring is derived from its previous owner, Archduke Johann . The system in which the outlet well for the spring water is located is called "Bad Sauerbrunn". The settlement area in which the spring is located only bears the name “Sauerbrunn” without the addition “Bad”.

location

The Erzherzog-Johann-Quelle is the main source of a group of sources , which were called "Wegquelle, Waldquelle, Nebenquelle, Bachquelle" or the like. The source is located in the district of Sauerbrunn in the west of the municipality of Stainz (municipality of Marhof) at about 500 m above sea level. Its socket is located on the Trogbach approx. 200 m upstream northwest of its confluence with the Stainzbach . The Trogbach is also called "Falleggbach" or "Sauerbrunnbach", it also appears as "Mauseggbach". The other springs are small, difficult to find in nature, but can be recognized by the ocher-colored area surrounding the spring outlet (caused by the iron content) . In the valley of the Trogbach (Mausegger Graben) are the main source, the secondary source and the stream source, in the Stainzbachtal (Sauerbrunngraben), about 300 paces from the confluence of the two streams, the first and middle forest source and the path source are described.

The area around the source (and thus also this itself) will be the sole property of the municipality of Stainz from 2015. Before that, until these communities were merged, it was owned by the communities of Stainz, Marhof and Greisdorf . This property comprises around five hectares of land around the confluence of the Trogbach and Stainzbach rivers. There are two protected areas around the source, which essentially extend to the river valley and the mountain slopes on it two kilometers upstream of the Stainzbach, 500 m upstream of the Trogbach and two kilometers downstream of the Stainzbach.

development

The Archduke Johann Spring was known in ancient times . A "considerable number of bronze coins " from the time of Emperor Constantine to Arcadius , from around AD 292 to 408, were found on it, which were then in the possession of the Counts of Meran.

Legend has it that the water helped to protect the residents of Stainz from the plague . According to another story, the slight smell of sulfur in the area around the spring is said to be due to the fact that the devil went to hell there with the son of a resident of the area .

In the 14th century the surrounding area and with it the spring came into the possession of the canon monastery of Stainz . Spring versions are documented from the first half of the 17th century. In 1632 there is a report about a “well in Staintz” in a “valle obscura”, in which sulfur water flows from a wooden pipe. The source is mentioned by several publications in the 18th and 19th centuries, for example in the Historical-Topographical Lexicon by Carl Schmutz , which mentions two Sauerbrunnen near Stainz. The source does not always appear, even when the Sauerbrunngraben is mentioned. In 1840 it was acquired by Archduke Johann along with the estate of the Stainz Abbey, which was closed in 1785; its name has nothing to do with John the Baptist or other saints .

In 1875, at the instigation of Archduke Johann's son, Count Franz von Meran , the spring was redesigned, it was surrounded by a marble fountain rim, and the fountain was covered with a stone slab. The sole of this version was the upcoming slab gneiss . At that time the complex belonged to the Stainzer estate of the descendants of Archduke Johann, the Count of Meran . A wooden pavilion was built over this frame in 1878. In addition, a small spa building was built in 1883; in addition to living space, it included rooms for a restaurant and a few bathing cabins. In 1882 the "Counts of Meransche Brunnenverwaltung" was founded and the spring water was shipped in bottles. From 1883 the spring was the center of a spa business. Spa stays, baths and drinking cures were offered. For visitors there was a carriage service from the innkeeper Reinbacher from Marhof with 30 horses.

In 1908 Hans Tauber had his house built as a block frame above the springs , the "Villa Tauber". It was later run by his daughter Margarete as "Pension Vogrin" as a supplement to the inn in Bad Sauerbrunn (closed in 1978). The house still existed in 2020.

In 1920 Edgar von Rücker acquired the plant and in 1934 received the marketing license for the mineral water, which had to be called "Stainzer Johannesquelle". After provisional management as German property (von Rücker was a German), Ferdinand Wultsch bought the property in 1959 . The business was mostly leased during this time. In 1950 it consisted of an inn that could only accommodate four spa guests.

In 1960 the inn was renovated, bathing cabins installed in the basement, the access road paved and a new power line built. A new tourist association was also established. In 1965 the spring was leased by Johann Klosius from Söding , who used the water to produce a lemonade called "Fontanella". During this time, the restaurant was run by the Stainz poet Marianne Holzinger. Ultimately, the pouring of the spring was too small for lemonade and bathing operations, and lemonade production and water sales also had to end in 1978.

The water had been bottled and sold for a hundred years, from 1878 to 1978 (“Stainzer Sauerbrunn”, “Stainzer Säuerling” or “Stainzer Johannesquelle”). The filling building was connected to the fountain house to the west.

The system was sold in 1983 to the three former municipalities of Marhof, Greisdorf and Stainz. The buildings of the bathing operation were demolished from 1984 after they had been empty for a few years, of the facilities there are only small remains of walls. The property named in the Styrian State Law Gazette (the building area . 37, former Kurhaus) was merged with another property and also no longer exists. The existing version was created in 1933, a shaft 2.5 m deep was dug below the level of the river bed of the Trogbach flowing next to it. The gushing water was visible in a glass bell, it was led into a deep storage dug into the earth with a capacity of approx. 3000 liters. In 1959 the still existing source house was built .

The municipalities jointly looked after the property around the source and made their water freely accessible approx. 300 m southeast in a small park on the state road L 642 “Sauerbrunnstraße”. The spring outlet consisted of a tree trunk with a hollowed-out branch as an outlet pipe and a table until around 1990. Later a stone fountain was built and two small basins for foot baths were built. The well is fed from the spring intake via a pipe (the pipe is led over a suspension bridge over the Stainzbach). The previously publicly accessible water outlet in the spring house has been closed, the spring house has been blocked, and there are no longer any uses in its vicinity.

The spring was recognized as a healing spring in 1935, and a protected area was established in 1959. In the context of water law , the source is referred to as "Heilquelle (Stainzer Sauerbrunn Johannesquelle 3/1567)". There is no permit under water law that goes beyond recognition as a healing spring, on the grounds that the spring has "existed for an indefinable long time". Whether this information suggests that the spring is linked to the right of the residents of the area to use their water is not documented (the Austrian legal system knows that a right is acquired by the general public, which can and cannot express itself in water scooping services must be entered in the land register.) Uses of other locations are also not documented. The source is therefore considered the private water of the landowner, the municipality of Stainz. In the Trogbach water book near the source, the approval of an operational facility is still entered: According to this, the discharge of biologically treated industrial waste water into the Trogbach (also known as Falleggbach) would be approved.

The "Johannesbrunnen", which is about 3.5 km southeast of Sauerbrunn am Sierlingbach in the west of Stainz, is a simple rest stop on hiking trails. It has nothing to do with the spring described here and does not have any mineral water.

In older literature, mineral springs in the Stainztal near Luttenberg (Ljutomer) in Slovenia are referred to as "Sauerbrunnen im Stainztal" . These sources also have nothing to do with the source presented here. The Stainzbach in this context is the Ščavnica .

Properties and origin of the spring water

The spring water is described as a sulphurous calcium - sodium - hydrogen carbonate acid, an older publication lists it under the "alkaline-earthy springs" of Styria. A positive effect on gout , rheumatic diseases , catarrh of the throat and trachea , stomach , intestinal and liver problems as well as anemia is mentioned.

According to measurements in 1984, the spring delivered about 13.4 liters of water per minute, from 1986 to 1988 about 8 to 10 l / min, a measurement on the first socket in 1875 only yielded 1.32 l / min. Statements according to which the discharge should be “high” cannot be verified. In 1950 the water was described as "very carbonated, radioactive". The taste of the spring water differs significantly from the usual spring water of the area, its natural carbonic acid content can be felt when drinking as with light soda water . A temperature of around 10 ° C and a pH value of 5.39 (slightly acidic) have been published for the spring water  . Radioactivity and traces of lithium and fluoride are also documented. According to the literature, there is a slight smell of hydrogen sulfide H 2 S, but this is not mentioned in the drinking water analysis from August 2013 (see picture). Suspended matter in the water is traced back to mineral leaching that can occur after heavy rainfall; regular examinations confirm the good water quality.

The source rises in an area whose rock consists of Stainzer slab gneiss . This rock is traversed by several fissures , the source is called "fissure water from the plate gneiss body". The calcium content of the spring water is attributed to a body of carbonate rock that is enclosed in the gneiss or lies below it, the iron and sulfur content to pyrite deposits in the crystalline rock of the spring area. The fissures and their branches are seen as the reason why there are several small mineral springs ("sour water outlets") in the area of ​​the spring. A spring lies in the bed of the Trogbach about 60 steps down the valley from the Erzherzog-Johann-Quelle. In 1836 two springs with different waters lying next to each other are reported, a sourling and a "sulphurous spring" are mentioned.

In 1950 a total of eight sources with sour water are mentioned, an investigation in 1987 could only find the stream source and a small source further east (pouring only 10 l / hour). These springs are unsuitable for economic use because of their low volume. A small source (the "secondary source"), which has analytical values ​​that differ slightly from the main source, is included with the main source. The pouring of this secondary source has been published in various ways; in the autumn of 1857 its water was described as a jet as thick as a finger, in 1870 it carried too little water to obtain sufficient sample material for investigations. The composition of the eastern spring also differs slightly from that of the Erzherzog-Johann-Quelle.

The rust-red color of the bottom of the basin at the spring outlet is due to the iron content of the spring water, which together with the surrounding air causes a thin layer of rust . At least the farther east, found in 1987, can be recognized by this color.

use

The withdrawal of the water for private purposes is possible free of charge, donations are requested. Hospitality companies in the area fill the water on their own and offer it as part of their operations. Two small basins are available for cold water baths .

A more intensive use fails mainly because of the insufficient amount of water and the local location of the mineral spring. The area around the source offers little space for a larger expansion, it is located in a shady location in a deeply cut valley. Buildings would have to be set on steep mountain slopes and the Stainzbach and Trogbach broadened to make them flood-proof, which would require large investment sums.

Possibilities for a more thorough use of the source have been examined several times. In 1950 there were discussions about taking over the spring into the ownership of the federal state of Styria and opening a "modern bathing establishment" there. Among other major projects in the Styrian space was planned at that time to create in Stainz a "Roman Bath" this "as a substitute for the on Yugoslavia fallen under Styrian for baths." (B. Rohitsch-Sauerbrunn / Rogaška Slatina , where at multiple sources at the end had established an extensive bathing and spa business in the 19th century). It didn't come to that.

The property on the mountain slope directly north of the confluence of the Trogbach and the Stainzbach was discussed in the 1980s as the location for a new spa building. It was a multi-storey building with a floor area of ​​about 650 m². a. three baths and a multi-person bath ("communication bath" for 9 to 12 people) are planned, some of which would have been built across the river. The parking lot would have been located around the spring outlet instead of the current park. Expert opinions and architectural drawings were made, a rough calculation was available, and no construction took place. Around 1989 there were construction costs of over S20 million (around 1.5 million euros, value 1990), a number of up to 70,000 visitors annually at full capacity, ten workplaces, a free management of the operator organization and a bathing company of up to Going out 13 hours a day. It was not certain that these assessments would be realizable in the long term without subsidies from public or private funds. From this time there was still a bridge over the Trogbach in 2013 (closed because of dilapidation).

Under the company "Stainzer Johannesquelle in Sauerbrunn Badebetriebsgesellschaft mbH" there was a limited liability company from 1989 to the end of February 2009, whose shareholders were the former communities of Stainz, Marhof and Greisdorf. This company did not produce any results, its shares were transferred in 2009, the company headquarters relocated and the company name changed. Society has had nothing to do with the subject since then.

The area around the source and its outlet well is managed by the “Association for the Promotion of the Stainzer Johannesquelle Bath”, which also holds talks with potential investors.

Around 2000, consideration was given to building a small field railway north of the source . That did not happen either, but in 2011 there were still remains of track and switches in the Trogbachtal approx. 600 m upstream of the building of the spring catchment below the abandoned farm vlg. Leitenpeterkeusche.

In Bad Sauerbrunn there are no living quarters and apart from a few tables in the park around the fountain, a toilet container and a transformer station, there are no other infrastructure facilities, no restaurants and no overnight accommodation. The room renters in Marhof and other areas of the Stainztal are available for overnight stays.

literature

  • Hilmar Zetinigg: The mineral and thermal springs of Styria. (PDF; 43.3 MB) In: Communications from the Department of Geology and Paleontology at the Landesmuseum Joanneum. Issue 50/51, Graz 1992/93. ZDB -ID 1210191-6 , pp. 195-199, references on pp. 325-341, pictures on pp. 359-360.
  • Josef Georg Planinc: Bad Sauerbrunn: Project of a spa facility in the municipality of Marhof near Stainz (district of Deutschlandsberg). Diploma thesis at the Graz University of Technology in 1990.
  • Ralf Benischke, Franz Graf, Barbara Zirngast: Stainzer Johannesquelle project, report on the hydrogeological and hydrochemical investigations. Forschungsgesellschaft Joanneum, Institute for Geothermal Energy and Hydrogeology. Graz. November 1987. (unpublished, quoted from Zetinig, Mineral- und Thermalquellen. P. 336.)
  • Ordinance of the Governor of Styria dated October 10, 1959 on the establishment of a protected area for those on building plot No. 37, KG Trog, EZ. No. 64, Trog municipality, located "Stainzer Johannesquelle". Steiermärkisches Landesgesetzblatt, year 1959, issue 27, no. 91. ZDB -ID 705127-x p. 129. (Property / parcel number out of date, deposit number still applies).
  • Josef Stiny : Hydrogeological report regarding the Johannesquelle near Stainz. Vienna, December 8, 1950. (unpublished, quoted from Zetinig, Mineral- und Thermalquellen. P. 339.)
  • Anton Franz Reibenschuh: The mineral springs and thermal baths in Styria. Separate impression from the XVII. Annual reports of the kkStaats-Realschule in Graz per 1889. Leuschner & Lubensky, Graz 1889. pp. 41–43.
  • Karl Poley, Karl Machan: The Count Meransche Stainzer Säuerling "Johannesquelle" in Styria. Stainz. no year (1880)
  • Richard Maly : Analysis of the count. Meran'schen Sauerbrunn-Quelle (Johannis-Quelle) next to Stainz in Styria. (PDF; 503 kB) Announcements from the natural science association for Styria. Volume 15, year 1878. Graz 1879, pp. 3–8.
  • Anton Franz Reibenschuh: Analysis of the Graef. Meran'schen Johannesquelle and the secondary source near Stainz. Session reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences . Volume LXII, mathematical-scientific class, II. Department, booklet 9. Presented in XXVI. Meeting on November 10, 1870. Gerolds Sohn Verlag, Vienna 1870. ISSN  1728-0540 . ZDB ID 2115019-9 . Pp. 786-797.
  • Mathias Macher : Overview of the medicinal waters and natural peculiarities of the Duchy of Styria. Vienna, with Jakob Dirnböck, Graz with Carl Tendler. 1858. pp. 7-8 .
  • Friedrich Rolle : The Sauerbrunn near Stainz. In: The attentive. A national folk newspaper in connection with the Grätzer Zeitung. Supplement to the Grazer Zeitung. Born in 1855. Graz 1855. ZDB -ID 2068977-9 , pp. 106-107.
  • (Josef) Onderka: Sauerbrunnen near Stainz. in Google Book Search. In: Steiermärkische Zeitschrift. New episode. III. Volume 2. Notes / Scientific news: From the circle travel relation per 1836 by Dr. Onderka, kk district physician in Grätz. Graz 1836, pp. 157–159.
  • Franziskus Joannes Arquatus: Patriae Nayadum et Baianarum delitiarum seu Hydro-Thesauri Natura Medicatorum Fontium et sponte Calentium Aquarum quas vulgo Thermas vocant per Excelsi Ducatus Styriae anfractus etc. - M. Rictium, Viennae 1632. In: Johann Carolum Übelbacher: Deren von Natur Medico: Deren von Natur Medico Mineral Saurer Brünenquellen jump and flow back and forth through the praiseworthy Herzogthumb Steyr Territorio ... transferred from the Latin epitome and translated by Johann Carolum Übelbacher printed in Vienna in Austria by Michael Rickhes, in the year 1632. (quoted from Zetinig: Mineral- und Thermalquellen . P. 325.)

Web links

Commons : Sauerbrunn, Marhof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zetinigg: Mineral and thermal springs. P. 19.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Helfried Patz: A new "Roman bath". Stainz in the Schilcherland becomes a spa. In: Weststeirische Volkszeitung. No. 8 (February 25, 1950). ZDB -ID 2303593-6 , p. 2.
  3. ↑ a b daily newspaper Neue Zeit . No. 38 (February 15, 1950). 6th year, p. 4.
  4. ↑ Reibenschuh: analysis. P. 797.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Macher: Overview. P. 7.
  6. ^ Planinc: Bad Sauerbrunn. Project. P. 14.
  7. ^ A b c Siegrid Hirsch, Wolf Ruzicka: Holy Sources: Styria & Carinthia. 175 sacred springs: description of the place, the way to the spring, general information, spring and cult, the water. freya Verlag, Gallneukirchen 2004, ISBN 3-902134-31-3 , p. 86.
  8. ↑ a b Reibenschuh: Analysis. P. 786.
  9. ^ Planinc: Bad Sauerbrunn: Project. Planning documents in the appendix to this work.
  10. ↑ Land register district court Deutschlandsberg , cadastral community 61244 Trog, deposit number 64. Total area 49,401 m². Plots 215/3, 215/6 (today's source park), 310/1 (planned location of the new spa building), 351/2 (location of the source), 355/3 and 356/3. (queried September 17, 2013).
  11. ↑ a b c Water book excerpt from the state of Styria, excerpt from the Styrian water information system (WIS). Wasserbuch-Post number 3/1567 , notification 14-188 Ma 2 / 13-34 from January 19, 1935. In: GIS-Steiermark, Digitaler Atlas Steiermark, map service: Gewässer & Wasserinformation. (queried September 17, 2013).
  12. ^ Fritz Pichler: A new excavation area. In: Communications from the Anthropological Society in Vienna. (LIKE). Volume XVII (Volume VII of the New Series). Vienna 1887. ISSN  0373-5656 ZDB -ID 206023-1 . Page [76 ](the square brackets belong to the page number, the volume has two page numbers, one with and one without these brackets). The passage also refers to Josef Andreas: Janisch, topographical-statistical lexicon of Styria with historical notes and comments. Graz 1878–1885, p. 791.
  13. ↑ Reibenschuh: analysis. P. 788.
  14. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Karl Dudek: The Roman spring Sauerbrunn. In: Weekly newspaper Weststeirische Rundschau , June 12, 2020. 93rd Volume No. 24, p. 7.
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  20. ^ Karl Dudek: Dr. Hans Tauber - a first generation Stainz local researcher. In: Weststeirische Rundschau . No. 18, volume 2020 (May 1, 2020), 93rd volume. ZDB -ID 2303595-X . Simadruck Aigner u. Weisi, Deutschlandsberg 2020, p. 9.
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  22. ↑ a b A new “Römerbad” near Stainz. Large-scale plans to promote tourism in Styria. In: The Steirerblatt. February 15, 1950, p. 3.
  23. ↑ Süd-Ost-Tagespost. February 5, 1960, p. 4.
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  28. ↑ Zetinigg: Mineral- und Thermalquellen (with reference to a decision of the Styrian state government of May 26, 1967, GZ 3-345 St 32 / 1-1967), p. 196.
  29. ↑ Zetinigg: Mineral- und Thermalquellen , p. 70.
  30. ^ Supreme Court : decisions 4 Ob 510/68; 1O b 33/87; 5 Ob 2246 / 96x; 4 Ob 239 / 97v; 7 Ob 22 / 99g; 7 Ob 234 / 01i, see RIS - Judicature Documentation of the Justice (Finding Supreme Court decisions) .
  31. ↑ § 3 Paragraph 1 lit. a of the Austrian Water Rights Act WRG .
  32. ↑ Under the name "Klosius Ingeborg and Beck Viktor Stainzer Johannesque 3/1692" (sic!): Discharge of 800 l neutralized concentrates once a month over 24 hours, i.e. 0.56 l / min, and 20 m³ / d, three times a week at a planned emptying time of 3 hours, i.e. 1.8 l / s into the Falleggbach: water book extract of the state of Styria, extract from the Styrian water information system (WIS). In: GIS-Steiermark, Digitaler Atlas Steiermark, Map Service: Waters & Water Information. (queried September 17, 2013).
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  36. ↑ Anton Franz Reibenschuh: The mineral springs and spas Styria. P. 41.
  37. ↑ Information board at the outlet well from 1996, see picture.
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  39. ^ Maly: Analysis. P. 4.
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  51. ↑ Central Register of Associations ZVR No. 689513752. The date of origin according to this register is March 23, 1987, according to the article by Dudek the year of foundation is only 1988, the association's headquarters are in Stainz.
  52. ↑ railway residues in the mouse Egger ditch .
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