King Albert Bath
The König-Albert-Bad (also: Stadtbad ) is a listed building in the city of Löbau (Saxony).
history
The forerunner of the building was a simple, small bathing establishment with six bathing rooms from 1824, which used various iron, salt and sulfur-containing springs that had already been discovered in the 18th century.
Today's large, late classical bathhouse dates from 1875/1876. The elongated building was designed according to plans by the Dresden architect Ernst Giese and built for 146,000 marks . The garden facade of the two-storey rectangular building has a two-flight flight of stairs , a colonnade on the basement, Italian-style loggias and a dome on the upper floor . Behind it there is an extensive park with historical trees and accessible cisterns.
The building is named after the Saxon King Albert , who stayed there for a cure in 1878 and who granted permission to give the spa his name.
Medicinal baths and packs, Russian and Irish-Roman steam baths were on offer.
Around 1900 rebuilding and expansion measures were carried out. During the revolution of 1918, the bathing facility was renamed Stadtbad . This term, which is often used in today's language for an indoor or outdoor pool, seems misleading. In July 1906, the town of Löbau opened the Herrmannbad, around 300 meters to the south-east, as an outdoor swimming pool .
During the GDR era, the facility was expanded, modernized and used for physiotherapy until 1992. The bath was closed two years after the fall of the Wall.
use
The former bath has been extensively restored. Since 2002 it has been used as a restaurant with an outdoor terrace in front of the garden facade in summer. Some of the halls of the former spa, especially the fountain room and the ballroom with design elements from the Belle Epoque , are rented out for events. A bowling alley with a cocktail bar is attached.
In 2005 the restaurant was a renovation case for Christian Rach . The episode of Rach the Restaurant Tester aired January 7, 2007 and rerun on March 2, 2009; since then there have been restructuring and personnel changes.
The building was foreclosed on July 23, 2009 in Görlitz.
Individual evidence
Web links
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments . Saxony I: Dresden district. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , p. 538 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 48 ″ N , 14 ° 40 ′ 6.7 ″ E