Raggal medicinal spring

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Lower courtyard in Marul. A little further to the west stood the Stachelhof, of which only the foundation walls are visible today

The spa (bath) in the municipality Raggal ( Vorarlberg , Austria ), the district Marul was the so-called Stachelhof (also Stahlhof or Staclielhof or today Unterhof, 944  m above sea level. A. ) in the plot "Bädli" a few meters above the Marulbach to Find.

history

The beginning of the use of the medicinal spring in Raggal is not known. The source is said to have been used at least as early as the Biedermeier period . This was made known by the pastor Johann Rinderer from Frastanz , who in 1865 published the brochure “ Das Magenwasser zu Raggal in Vorarlberg ”.

Healing spring

The healing spring was a cold iron-containing spring. The water was also known as "stomach water" and is said to have helped with stomach problems.

In Eduard Jos Koch's treatise from 1843: " Treatise on mineral springs in a general scientific relationship and description of all baths and health fountains known in the Austrian monarchy ", the healing spring is not mentioned. Josef Zehenter mentions the healing spring and its effect in Vorarlberg's mineral springs in 1895 .

effect

Pastor Johann Rinderer described the effect of the healing water in his book: " The stomach water at Raggal in Vorarlberg ". Excerpt: “ The stomach water at Raggal, which was published for the first time last year in June, has recently justified the praise it made, so that from here a large part of suffering humanity can seriously be wished luck. Seventy people visited this medicinal water in 1864. It only cost six of these, of which one man died in the first few days, the other five returned after a few days. 64 people really did cur. - A special protocol was made for each of these 64 spa guests, in which age, status, sex, previous illnesses, all pathological manifestations of the present condition and its previous duration, then the length of the treatment period and the daily occurrences during the same, together with the success were faithfully and conscientiously noticed at the end of the curation period itself and its after-effects, which were later explored. The following results result from these records: Among these 64 spa guests, 25 were male and 39 female. The curative time of the individual persons was very unequal according to the requirements of the circumstances, from nine days to nine weeks ... The main ailment in all consisted of stomach pains with sour, slimy, watery or bilious vomiting, also with vomiting of everything enjoyed - or in stomach pain without vomiting ... "

Only three men and two women showed no improvement after the cure. With forty spa guests, the basic malaise, the stomach ailment, disappeared after the cure.

Geography / topography

The Stachelhof was about 70 m above the Marulbach in the south. The Unterhof, which was built 120 years ago today, has house number Marul 19. The former Stachelhof or Unterhof is about 1500 m from the center of the village of Marul and about 3600 m from the center of Raggal. It is about 6 km as the crow flies to the city center of Bludenz and about 36 km to Lake Constance .

literature

  • Johann Rinderer: The stomach water at Raggal in Vorarlberg , 1865.
  • Werner Vogt: Old health spas in Vorarlberg a journey through the Vorarlberg bathing landscape. Verlag Benvenuti, Feldkirch 2001, ISBN 3-901522-07-7 .
  • Christoph Vallaster: Small Vorarlberg spa book. Book Spezial Verlag, Dornbirn 1984, ISBN 3-900496-03-3 .
  • Josef Zehenter, Mineralquellen Vorarlberg , Innsbruck 1895, Online Vorarlberger Landesmuseum .

Web links

Commons : Marul  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal of the Ferdinandeum for Tyrol and Vorarlberg , third volume, p. 150.
  2. ^ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 115.
  3. ↑ See: Journal of the Ferdinandeum for Tyrol and Vorarlberg , Third Volume, p. 150. Josef Zehenter, Mineralquellen Vorarlbergs , 1895, p. 167.
  4. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 115 f.
  5. ↑ Vienna 1843, Pichler, Volume 1, p. 179 f.
  6. ↑ page 167 f.
  7. ↑ See: Bote für Tirol and Vorarlberg, year 1865, p. 480.
  8. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 116.

Coordinates: 47 ° 11 ′ 40.2 "  N , 9 ° 52 ′ 38"  E