Karlsburg (Bad Ems)

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Karlsburg, on the left the bathhouse

The Karlsburg , also known as the four-tower house , is a city ​​palace in Bad Ems .

The original construction was started in 1696 by Johann Karl von Thüngen , who had fought as an imperial field marshal during the Second Turkish siege of Vienna . The castle was to serve as accommodation for his bathing stays in Bad Ems . The architect was the court builder Johann Christoph Sebastiani from the Electorate of Trier . In the course of the French Revolutionary Wars , the house was badly devastated and was uninhabitable. In 1804 the ruinous house came into the possession of the Oranien-Nassau rent master and bath manager Goedecke and in 1817 it was bought by the bath doctor Thilenius. In the time that followed, the building was extensively renovated and converted into a luxury hotel. Eventually the castle passed into the possession of the ducal Nassau domain administration, which leased it to the hotelier Heinrich Becker. From this time on the house housed numerous European princes and artists such as B. Tsar Alexander II of Russia , his wife , Crown Prince Friedrich of Prussia or Carl Maria von Weber . After the First World War, a rest home for scientists and writers was to be set up there, which a non-profit association wanted to run. Today the building houses a branch of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Office for Data and Information .

Former bath house

The bath house

In 1845, a new bathhouse was added to the hotel in the west, which was fed with thermal water. The spa guests were able to take a bath for an hour in a large number of bath cabins. In 1956 a comprehensive renovation and a complete interior renovation took place after the planned demolition of the house could be prevented by intervention of the state preservation authorities. In 1968 the baths were closed and the bathhouse was used as a storage shed by the spa gardeners. In 2008 the bathhouse was renovated and a restaurant and a theater for the Cabaret Casablanca were built.

literature

  • Dieter Weithoener: Bad Ems, a city with a face . Bad Ems 1987. p. 89ff.
  • Paul-Georg Custodis: Bad Ems . 1975.
  • Adolf Bach: On the history of the Thüngen house in Ems, in: Journal for local history of the Coblenz government district and the adjacent areas of Hessen-Nassau 2, 1921, No. 16, pp. 102-106. Online: https://dilibri.de/rlb/periodical/pageview/270747?query=hanns

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bach, Geschichte des Thüngen'schen Haus, pp. 102-103
  2. ↑ LDI , accessed July 20, 2009.

Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 54 ″  N , 7 ° 43 ′ 16 ″  E