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The Hotel Blume is a hotel in Baden in the canton of Aargau . It stands on Kurplatz and is a cultural asset of regional importance . The Hotel Blume is the only one in the spa district that is still in operation today.

building

Atrium courtyard

The hotel building combines several construction phases from the late Middle Ages to the second half of the 19th century. Facing the Kurplatz is the eaves- standing three-storey old wing, with a double-broken facade and late Gothic buttresses on the northeast corner . The east facade is closed off by a half-hip roof and has some baroque rectangular windows. An arched portal with a stylized, flat profiled plant pattern dates from around 1840 . A neo-renaissance annex adjoins this building group to the south . Its windows are in the shape of round arches on the ground floor , while the windows above are rectangular (on the first floor they also have arched roofs). In general, the extension is modeled on an Italian palazzo and hardly influenced by Romanticism or Biedermeier .

An elongated atrium courtyard that has been completely preserved and extends over all floors characterizes the interior. Three galleries with cast-iron supports and iron railings open to the courtyard. The allegorical mural In Aqua Salus from 1873 extends under the glass roof . In the festively furnished dining room on the ground floor, the walls are structured by fluted pilasters, while the doors are decorated with stucco gables and the ceiling mirror is decoratively painted. In the old building there is a classicistic entrance hall with Tuscan wall pilasters .

history

The first mention of an inn called "Blume" was in 1421, in connection with disputes between the shareholders of the Grosse Heissen Stein . In 1800 the house came into the possession of Anton Niklaus Borsinger, who then undertook a comprehensive renovation. In 1866 the architect Robert Moser was commissioned to build a new building that included the neighboring houses “zum Gelbhorn” and “zur Sense”. Of the project, however, only the neo-renaissance replacement for the south wing and a glass-roofed atrium courtyard could be implemented in 1872 . As a result, the late medieval appearance of the building has largely been preserved until today. The hotel has been a listed building since 1967. Restoration work followed in stages: 1984 renewal of the facade of the north wing, 1992/93 exterior renovation of Moser's extension, in the 1990s modernization of the hotel rooms. 1999 to 2001 restoration of the dining room, 2005 partial renovation of the bathrooms in the basement. In contrast to all the other hotels in the spa district, the “flower” was never closed.

For decades, the elevator in the atrium courtyard of the Hotel Blume was considered to be the world's oldest still operating passenger elevator from the Schindler company . In numerous publications (including articles in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Aargauer Zeitung ) the urban legend was spread that it dates back to 1898 and is number 2. The “whiz kid blog” operated by Schindler Germany found out in 2017 that that this elevator was not installed until 1948 and replaced a water-hydraulic system from 1895. The actually oldest Schindler lift still in existence has been in the Hirschengraben 33b building in Lucerne since 1912 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Hotel Blume  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Schindler No. 2": The elevator in the Bäderhotel Blume. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 1, 2007, accessed on July 16, 2017 .
  2. ↑ 37 things that you absolutely have to do in Baden. Aargauer Zeitung , August 9, 2016, accessed on July 16, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Stefanie Garcia Lainez: The famous lift in the Hotel Blume is not the “Schindler lift No. 2”. Aargauer Zeitung , July 15, 2017, accessed on July 16, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Jan Steeger: Elevators all over the world: The legendary Schindler lift number 2. In: Vertical starter blog. Schindler Holding , February 14, 2017, accessed July 16, 2017 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 28 ′ 50 "  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 49"  E ; CH1903:  665 950  /  259221