Gesundbrunnen (Sagard)
The Gesundbrunnen Sagard was a spa and bathing establishment in Sagard on Rügen . The institution, which opened in 1795, made Sagard the first bathing resort on Rügen and founded a spa that continued until around 1830.
history
The beginnings
The beginnings of a bathing establishment existed in Sagard as early as the middle of the 18th century. The basis was the iron, lime and carbonated springs, which pour into the Sagard stream flowing through the "Brunnenaue" . At the end of the 18th century, pastor Heinrich Christoph von Willich (1759–1827) had some of the sources on church grounds cleaned and bordered, squares and paths laid out, and a bathhouse set up. The "fountain, bathing and entertainment establishment" opened on July 4th, 1795. Sagard was thus the first bathing resort on Rügen. Willich's brother, Dr. Moritz von Willich , as a rural physician from Rügen and Swedish-Western Pomerania , promoted the development of the bathing business by writing two advertising brochures for the Gesundbrunnen. He wrote u. a .: The small stream is delightful here with its small waterfalls and in other places with its gentle trickling between the winding incisions in the meadow. The two walks along the Brunnen-Aue, one of which continues below, the other higher up the Berglehen, are extremely graceful. There is also plenty of other pleasures than there: carousel, bowling alley, gaming tables, Fortuna, swings, seesaws, discs, music and dance.
successes
Already in the opening year around 100 spa guests were counted, primarily members of Rügen noble families and officials from Stralsund and Greifswald . The bath house built for them had a room for warm baths, a fall bath and two rooms for warm and cold spray, drip, knee and foot baths. The bathers lived in the “Lindenhaus” inn and in various private quarters. Your medical care and advice was provided by Dr. Moritz von Willich, a special spa doctor was not hired. By the first decade of the 19th century, the number of bathers, some of them foreign, grew to 500. The most famous bathers were Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland , Martin Heinrich Klaproth , Heinrich von Kleist and Wilhelm von Humboldt . The interest in visiting the Sagarder Gesundbrunnen was also explained by the prevailing zeitgeist of romanticism . Bathers were fascinated by the untouched nature of Rügen. Christoph von Willich encouraged the fascination by creating a path up to the chalk cliffs of the stump chamber. The construction, including a 600-step descent to the Baltic Sea beach, is considered the first tourist development measure of the natural beauties of Rügen.
Competition and decline
Around 1810 the bathing business declined as a result of the occupation of Rügen by Napoleonic troops and the associated coalition wars. As early as 1807, Christoph von Willich had resigned the post of spa director. Due to the decline of the bathing business, plans to expand the mineral bath, which u. a. planned the construction of a ballroom, a belvedere and other avenues, but not implemented. The founding of the residential town of Putbus (1810) and the construction of the bathhouse in Goor (1817/1818) in its vicinity represented additional competition. Instead of the previous classic baths, outdoor swimming in the Baltic Sea came into fashion at the beginning of the 19th century. In spite of this, a middle-class tenant resumed bathing in 1818. In 1819 the chronicler Johann Jakob Grümbke wrote : Sagard auf Jasmund (has) 106 houses and 614 inhabitants, with a health well that is quite busy. The success did not last, however, because as early as 1833 Friedrich Karl von Strombeck reported about Sagard, where an abandoned and dilapidated well of health [...]
Todays situation
Today the historical park Brunnenaue reminds of the former spa park with its promenades, fountain and bath houses , which informs about the history of the first bathing establishment on Rügen by signposts at a historical place. The park was re-inaugurated on April 7, 2007 after a partial reconstruction.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quoted at http://www.sagard-ruegen.de/brunnenaue.html
- ↑ Johann Jakob Grümbke : New accurate geographical-statistical-historical representation of the island and the Principality of Rügen. Designed for closer and more thorough knowledge of this country. Berlin 1819.
- ^ Friedrich Karl von Strombeck: Representations from my life and from my time. First part. Braunschweig 1833, p. 289.
literature
- Andre Farin: The Healthy Well in Sagard. In: Rügen home calendar. 1994, ZDB -ID 1282913-4 , pp. 58-63.
- Andre Farin: The health fountain of Sagard - The pastor and his mineral bath. In: Ostsee-Zeitung , October 13, 1999, p. 18.
- Paul Leesch: More of the area than the cure? Bathers in Sagard on Rügen. In: North German Latest News , January 23, 1998, p. 23.
- Moritz von Willich: Message from Gesundbrunnen to Sagard on Jasmund. s n., sl 1795, digitized .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 31 ′ 40.7 ″ N , 13 ° 33 ′ 25.6 ″ E