Jug magazine (Bad Kissingen)
The historic pitcher magazine in Bad Kissingen housed the healing water - bottling plant and was the starting point of the global shipping trade . The listed building is owned by the Free State of Bavaria .
Historical
The jug magazine on the Kurpromenade (today: Kurhausstraße ; address: Schloßstraße 4) was built as a replacement for an older building in the spa garden, which was demolished in 1835, according to plans by the Bavarian architect Friedrich von Gärtner (1791–1847) and an official announcement dated January 7, 1837 finally completed in 1839. The official announcement stated: “The jar magazine will be 125 feet long, 27 feet wide, with 2 backward jumping wings, each 18 '[feet] long, then 2 floors, together from floor to roof 42 feet high, tiled , in the basement receives a basement 92 feet long, 21 feet wide, 9 feet high, with 2 vaults, each 21 feet long, 10 '[feet] wide, to the reservoirs of the Pandur Fountain and the Soole. ” In later years until 1913 In addition, minor modifications and additions were made (Krughütte, Krugremise , boiler room, window enlargements and cellar stairs). The jug magazine is a two-storey building with segmented arched windows grouped into triplet windows, in the attic with a narrow band of lower windows in the attic and a hipped roof . Emil Wegner describes the building with its emphasized horizontal structure and the unbroken flatness of the cube that it is proudly cool.
The building was used by the respective bath tenants - until 1853 it was the Bolzano brothers - to fill the various healing waters of the spa town into clay jugs, as a “magazine” for their storage and as a starting point for worldwide shipping. The bathroom inspector's apartment was also housed there.
First floor
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Krugmagazin was also supposed to accommodate a balneological institute , but these plans failed for the time being - not least because of the contradiction of the then bathroom tenant (since October 1, 1900) Hofrat Friedrich von Hessing . It was only after the Second World War (before December 1, 1948) that the Bad Kissingen-born geologist and chemist Dr. Carl Genser , Bavarian Higher Government Chemistry Council , with his balneology laboratory on the upper floor of the jug magazine. In 1952 his “State Laboratory for Mineral Research” was affiliated with the Balneological Institute of the University of Munich and has since been operating as the “Bad Kissingen branch of the chemical department of the Balneological Institute at the University of Munich”. After Genser's retirement in 1967, his laboratory in the Krugmagazin was closed and in the first few years that followed it was only used occasionally for particularly urgent tests.
From 1996 to 2005 it was the seat of a construction office of the State Building Authority , which was responsible for the planning and implementation of the renovation of the historic building complex at the spa garden , built in 1835 and 1910–1914 - wall and fountain hall , arcade construction (1834–1838 also built by Friedrich von Gärtner), Regentenbau (1998-2004) - as well as the flood protection measures along the Franconian Saale (2004-2005). In addition, the “handicraft hour” for spa guests was housed there for a few years. Today (2012) the upper floor is unused.
ground floor
After the Second World War, the ground floor served as the headquarters of the “Verwaltung der Staatliche Bäder OHG” operating company until it was transferred to the new “Bayerisches Staatsbad Bad Kissingen GmbH” health spa in 1999. Here, the spa administration continued to fill and ship the medicinal water - but now in modern glass bottles. In 2001 bottling and shipping were given up due to inefficiency. The bottling plant is still in the building today. In the rooms only the Bad Kissinger “bitter water” is mixed for direct serving in the fountain hall. For a few years the course chaplaincy also used rooms on the ground floor.
Planning
After all uses had been abandoned, it was planned since 2007 to accommodate today's health resort company "Bayerisches Staatsbad Bad Kissingen GmbH" in the jug magazine, as its previous company building (built in 1978) is to be demolished. For this purpose, the Bavarian Free State wanted to renovate the jug magazine for 2.2 million euros . But these plans were changed again. According to current planning, the GmbH is to move to the planned "authority center", to which the Luitpoldbad will soon be converted after extensive renovation.
There are no new plans for future use of the jug magazine. The unused property is still leased to the Kurbetriebsgesellschaft.
literature
- Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 . (not evaluated)
- Thomas Mäusers: Once a “warehouse” for clay jugs , in: Saale-Zeitung from April 11, 2012
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection, inventory number D-6-72-114-93
- ↑ Landbauamt Bad Kissingen files in the Würzburg State Archive, page 36, no. 182 ( PDF file ( Memento of the original dated February 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )
- ↑ Publication of the notice in General Gazette for the Kingdom of Bavaria No. 7 of January 25, 1837, page 182 ( digitized version )
- ↑ At that time in the Kingdom of Bavaria the measure “foot” had an official length of 291.86 millimeters.
- ^ Ewald Wegner: Friedrich von Gärtner and Bad Kissingen , in: Mainfränkische Studien , Volume 25, Friends of Mainfränkischer Kunst und Geschichte, 1981, page 40f. ( Extracts )
- ↑ The various healing waters were led from the wells through underground pipes directly into the jug magazine.
- ↑ Friedrich von Hessing laid a line from the Rakoczy fountain in the nearby spa garden to the jug magazine at his own expense.
Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 46.9 ″ N , 10 ° 4 ′ 40.4 ″ E