Karolinenbad
The Karolinenbad at Dürergasse 14 was a private bathtub in Vienna's 6th district of Mariahilf, a forerunner of the later urban public baths .
history
In a house from 1797, later: Dürergasse 14, Josef Eggerth founded the Karolinenbad in 1843. Since the Viennese water supply was more than inadequate in terms of both quantity and quality at that time , he used the so-called "overwater" of the Kaiser-Ferdinand water pipe as bathing water . The bathroom had 40 marble bathtubs in 30 stalls. In 1852 Eggerth also built the Esterházybad at Gumpendorfer Strasse 59.
From the death of Josef Eggerth in 1878, his son Karl Eggerth († 1888) continued the bath. In 1902, Eggerthgasse in Vienna- Mariahilf (6th district) was named after him. The bathroom was renovated in 1924 and demolished in 1961. The courtyard gate was preserved and is located in the Mariahilf district museum . One of the stone vases that crowned the gate was also preserved.
The address of the Karolinenbad was originally Untere Stättengasse or Untere Gestattengasse, named Dürergasse in 1862 (house number 14), a part of Dürergasse running 30 m west of the house was renamed Eggerthgasse in 1902. The Luftbadgasse runs 30 m north of the house (previously: Obere Gestättengasse), named in 1862 after the Esterházybad, which was also built by Eggerth in 1852 and adjoins the back of the house, with the address Gumpendorfer Strasse 59. The stairs to the west at the north end of Eggertgasse, up to Kaunitzgasse and further to Gumpendorfer Strasse was called Eggerthstiege and was renamed Viktor-Matejka-Stiege in 1998.
See also
literature
- Wiener Heimatbuch: Mariahilf. Then and now. Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna 1926.
- Dieter Klein , Martin Kupf , Robert Schediwy : Stadtbildverluste Wien. A look back over five decades. 3. Edition. Lit, Vienna et al. 2005, ISBN 3-8258-7754-x .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 49.3 " N , 16 ° 21 ′ 19.7" E