Spa facility Friedenfels

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The Friedenfels sanatorium in Wilen near Sarnen was a naturopathic sanatorium of the life reform movement in Switzerland .

History of the sanatorium

It was founded around 1900 by the architect Otto Rammelmeyer, who calls himself a " Kneipp doctor ", and his wife Martha. The sanatorium included air baths and its own lake beach bath. The supporters of the life reform movement, including Henri Oedenkoven and his partner, the pianist Ida Hofmann , who co-founded the artists' settlement Monte Verità in 1900 , visited the alternative sanatorium Friedenfels in autumn 1901.

«Our way there was a visit to the Naturheilanstalt Friedenfels, in whose owner and his wife we ​​got to know very nice, natural people. In addition to the well-known physical light sources of nature, Rammelmeyers attach particular importance to healing through prayer, a direction that has recently been emphasized so strongly in Berlin circles that Kaiser Wilhelm found himself compelled to put a stop to the excesses of the same. "

- Ida Hofmann-Oedenkoven : Monte Verita: Truth without Poetry , p. 33

In 1907 Otto and Martha Rammelmeyer and Julius Becker intended to set up a nature nursery “based on the most modern educational principles” and “on the basis of natural law”. Becker was a publisher's bookseller in Gera and published Becker's popular books in the mid-1890s . A Christian folk, community and workers library out.

After the extraordinary death of a patient in 1908, the Obwalden authorities banned Otto Rammelmeyer from all medical activities.

Martha Rammelmeyer was also active as an author and, in addition to articles in various magazines, published a vegetarian cookbook, which has appeared in numerous editions. Otto Rammelmeyer also wrote various writings.

In the 1930s the health resort advertised as a “vegetarian holiday home”. At that time the offer included natural healing methods and homeopathy , diet. Raw food and fasting cures as well as "successful clay treatment for metabolic disorders, stomach, intestinal, heart, kidney ailments, hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure, rheumatism, uric acid ailments and eczema".

The spa operation was discontinued in the 1960s; In 1966 the industrialist Erwin Braun acquired the Niderholz property. In 1979 the Kurhaus burned down.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 1903 Rammelmeyer entered the company Otto Rammelmeyer-Schönlin, Friedenfels, in the commercial register. Their business purpose was the management of a vegetarian pension and health resort. See Schweizerisches Handelsamtsblatt , 21st year, 23 June 1903, No. 29, p. 1. Online: Schweizerisches Handelsamtsblatt .
  2. ^ A b INSA: Inventory of modern Swiss architecture, 1850–1920: Cities = Inventaire suisse d'architecture, 1850–1920: villes = Inventario svizzero di architettura, 1850–1920: città. Vol. 8, 1996, p. 255. Online: Kurhaus Friedenfels .
  3. ↑ a b Andreas Anderhalden: Gebresten, Pest und Badestuben. Medical history from Obwalden. Brunner, Kriens 2013, ISBN 978-3-03727-058-5 , pp. 198-201.
  4. ↑ Rebecca Niederhauser: "Have fun with vegetables and fruit and toast in water"? Life-reforming vegetarianism in Zurich , in: Swiss Archives for Folklore . 7th year, 2011 issue 1, pp. 14–15.
  5. ^ Kuranstalt Friedenfels, Sarnen am See (Obwalden). In: Swiss teacher newspaper . Online: Kuranstalt Friedenfels, Sarnen am See (Obwalden) .

Coordinates: 46 ° 52 '34 "  N , 8 ° 12' 54.2"  E ; CH1903:  659 187  /  one hundred and ninety-one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight