Kurhaus (Bad Ems)

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The spa of the Lahn seen from
The Kurhaus 1898 with the covered Kurbrücke in the foreground
Kursaal building, seen from the Lahn
Colonnades, connecting passage between Kurhaus and Kursaal, seen from the mountain side

The spa of Bad Ems was established in 1715 as the Nassauer bathhouse built and restored in the 19th and 20th centuries and expanded. The listed building is located on a bend in the Lahn and forms the center of the city's spa district. Today it is used as a hotel and conference center.

history

In 1715 the house of Nassau had the old Nassau Kurhaus replaced by a magnificent new building, which brought a number of hot springs to light. Originally a three-wing palace complex was planned, but only two wings were built . The center of the system was the exit of the boiler well. From 1835 to 1849, the Kursaal was built to the west of the Kurhaus complex according to a design by Johann Gottfried Gutensohn , and both components were connected to one another by a colonnade at the same time .

In 1866 the bath became the property of the Prussian state. In 1870 Wilhelm I stayed here for a cure, which led to the name of the Emser Depesche . In 1912/13 the entire complex was completely renovated under the direction of government master builder Birck and greatly expanded in the neo- baroque style. In the course of these expansions, the Kursaal was supplemented by the theater, the chamber music hall and the reading room, both of which now house the casino .

The Kurhaus is registered as an architectural monument in the city's list of monuments.

literature

  • The structural and operational development of the state baths and mineral fountains: Bad Ems In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen . Vol. 70 (1920), No. 7-9, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-92449 , pp. 385-410. (With 19 text illustrations, additional illustrations in the atlas, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-92479 , sheets 30–32.)
  • Angelika Nold: The Kursaal building in Bad Ems and its builder Johann Gottfried Gutensohn . In: Nassau Annals . Vol. 91 (1980), ISSN  0077-2887 , pp. 208-226.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg Dehio . Handbook of German Art Monuments. Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland. Arranged by Hans Caspary, Wolfgang Götz u. Ekkart blade. 1972. p. 60.

Web links

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Commons : Kursaal (Bad Ems)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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