Bad Hamm
The city of Hamm in Westphalia was a spa resort from 1882 to 1955 and was accordingly allowed to call itself Bad Hamm . The operation of the spa was made possible by artesian brine flowing out in the Hammer city area. The Kurpark and the Kurhaus, which is now a listed building, complemented the recreational opportunities and, since the brine spring dried up, together with the Clinic for Manual Therapy and the Maximare Erlebnistherme, the successor to the former Jahnbad, have linked to the traditional Hammer spa and bathing culture. The spa park and the adjoining residential, therapeutic and sports areas today form the Hammer district of Bad Hamm, part of the Hamm-Uentrop district .
The bathing establishment in Hamm
If we enumerate the names of the Westphalian baths and forget to name Bad Hamm, that would be a gross omission, and if it is done out of ignorance - a visit will convince anyone with judgment, enthused the Westphalian Courier on June 9, 1938. The spa is now there in Hamm history. Even if there are only a few contemporary witnesses who can remember the health resort in Hamm, the city repeatedly tries to get the old status back. The renovation and expansion of the spa house, the construction of the Maximare and the construction of a graduation tower in the area of the spa park all have their origins in this endeavor, which is reflected in the naming of the buildings near the former location of the spa. This is the official name for the Kurhaus Kurhaus Bad Hamm . The area on Ostenallee is signposted accordingly on the access roads. From July 8 to September 23, 2007 an exhibition took place in the Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Hamm, which was entitled 125 years of Bad Hamm . In view of the changes since the time of the original brine bath, it is rather questionable whether today's city of Hamm will ever be able to be included in the list of spas again .
history
The hammer fountain in Werries
From a deed of foundation of Duke Johann von Kleve from the year 1517 it emerges that at that time a so-called Gesundbrunnen existed in Braam-Ostwennemar . It is possible that a brine spring was discovered back then, which later fell into oblivion. The healing properties of the salty water gave the fountain a certain reputation. People left donations of flax, wax and money here. The donations were used to build a chapel and an altar on the Sandbrink. As a result, a picture of the Virgin Mary known at the time was erected at this location.
In the 1870s, mining developed in the eastern Ruhr area . Numerous test drillings were carried out in the vicinity of the city of Hamm, which were used to find hard coal . A number of German, Belgian and English companies took part in the search for the coal deposits.
Coal was initially not found. For this, mine director Gustav Engelhardt from Bochum from the Schlägel & Eisen union came across a bubbling spring that shot up ten meters in a fountain. The finds were a few meters from the lip ; Today there is a dead Lippe arm on Lippestrasse near the Wiemer restaurant. On May 4, 1875, a borehole penetrated 1,940 feet (1 foot = 0.314 meters; 1,940 feet = 720 m) deep into the ground and brought warm, salty water to the surface from a layer of marl . From now on the spring was called Hammer Brunnen . City historian Eduard Raabe explained in his Low German book Geschichte van diär Stadt Hamm : Saogenannt Mirakel gescheihet dör düt curative water, dör düsen niggen Gesundbrunnen, also every year, and established a connection between the Gesundbrunnen, attested for the 16th century, and the new Hammer Brunnen here.
Engelhardt leased the Hammer Brunnen to the technician Carl Rüth from Hamm, who soon built the first bathing huts there. Bad Hamm started with two oak tubs that were filled with brine. The excess was drained into the lip. Due to ecological concerns, the source was blocked again by order of the police. At an on-site meeting attended by District Administrator von Bodelschwingh, Mayor Staude, Kreisphysikus Jehn, hydraulic engineer Quantz and Wilhelm von der Marck , those involved found that the water was not contaminated and the vegetation was not damaged. Thereupon the district government in Arnsberg lifted the police order to close the spring on July 8, 1877.
The brine in Werries had a salt content of about 8%, was carbonated and about 33 ° C warm. The chemical composition and the medical effectiveness were first determined by the pharmacist Wilhelm von der Marck (1815-1900) from Hamm and later confirmed by Carl Remigius Fresenius in Wiesbaden , who was considered an expert in the chemistry of mineral waters. The quality of the brine is high and does not need to fear comparison with that in other established baths. The salt content of the brine by far exceeded that of the already known Oeynhauser, Nauheimer or Kreuznacher brine. One thousand grams of the Hammer Well contained 75 grams of sodium chloride .
The brine was fed into wooden tubs in a simple bathing establishment and made generally accessible. In the summer of 1877, Rüth was able to administer 4,570 baths. The clientele initially traveled from Hamm and the surrounding area. A few came from Münster. In 1878, Rüth was able to open the bathing season on May 15th with the support of the bathing doctor district physician Jehn. He advertised accordingly in the local press. The spa guests sought help against various diseases. Rüth promised that the healing power of the spring could be useful for scrofula , bone problems , joint problems , apoplectic paralysis, chronic skin diseases and rheumatism. The brine should help with cardiovascular diseases, women's diseases, diseases of the respiratory tract and nervous disorders.
The new facility in Werries turned out to be a crowd puller and the local trade, crafts and haulage companies benefited. The city fathers of Hamm thought of putting the use of the brine on a broader basis. On July 3, 1877, the Westfälischer Anzeiger read: “In our vicinity, mother earth gushes out a brine which, due to its high hydrochloric and carbonic acid content, is higher than that of Königsborn and Oeynhausen, and whose degree of warmth is so high that it is at good frame and guided by a small heat conductor (wooden or clay pipes) with little heat loss to lead to the Hermitage. The cost of the management and the construction of a simple bathhouse cannot be so great that the city could not respond in the interests of so many who would seek a cure from their ailments there in the course of each year. It is well known that the owners of a borehole are instructed to plug it. Since this operation is a very difficult and costly one, it can be assumed that the owners would leave the use of the water to the city on condition that they are released from all obligations. The constant use of the two primitive tubs set up at the borehole in a hall house is sufficient evidence of the high frequency a closer bath house set up in the Hermitage would find. "
However, the drilling company refused to accept the proposal, even when the city offered 20,000 marks in cash and later increased it to 10,000 marks in cash and 15,000 marks in shares of a bathing company to be founded. The Schlägel & Eisen, continuation demanded instead the establishment of a company with a chapter of 150,000 marks. Of this, 30,000 marks were to be used for the purchase of the spring and 12,000 marks for the construction of bathing facilities. This again seemed unacceptable to the city.
After the successful start, the source owner Gustav Engelhardt spoke out in favor of greater and more professional use of the bathing facility. He wanted to acquire the property on which the spring was located from the innkeeper Wilhelm Harkenbusch (called Wiemer). It should “first proceed amicably, and if this does not work, the expropriation of the same should be applied for.” Harkenbusch sold his land on July 5, 1878 to Engelhardt from Bochum. In 1881 a bathing committee (Subscription Comité) was formed , which in the same year carried out a collection “for the acquisition of the Bad Werries”, which was supposed to bring the bath into the possession of the city of Hamm. Little by little, a few wealthy sponsors were found, until finally a good 62,000 marks were put together. However, these were deterred by the skepticism of the pharmacist Wilhelm von der Marck , who was then municipal councilor. Von der Marck expressed the fear that such a brine source could dry up again as quickly as it would have been unexpectedly found. At that time Hamm had 20,618 inhabitants and urgently needed money for other municipal tasks such as the construction of a water pipe. Since von der Marck shied away from the risk, the initiative refrained from purchasing plans. Eduard Raabe scoffed at the fearful assessment made by the honorary citizen von der Marck at a citizens 'meeting in the Börsenhalle on Südstrasse: “Do stond op einmol' n ollen Härn, dai soa wat von chemiker was un noihar auk Ährenbüorger von Hamm woren is, ut syiner sofa corner op un warnede met syinen wyisen Wooren daför, sik in sülke, bulging shops inteloten. "
Instead, Heinrich von Grimberg acquired the source in 1881 on behalf of the Königsborn trade union in Unna. The representatives of the Königsborn saltworks had already made relevant experiences with dwindling springs, but were not put off by these experiences. As early as the 1840s, the union at Heeren and in 1850 at Pelkum carried out test drilling, but with limited success. In any case, the city of Hamm would not have been able to keep pace with the financial demands of Bochumer Bohrgesellschaft and its representative Engelhardt. The offer from Unna was accepted; the source passed into the possession of the salt works in the neighboring town. The driving force was the industrialist Friedrich Grillo (1825–1888), who offered the unusually high amount of 100,000 marks for the time. During this time he did a lot of business of this kind, took part in collieries and iron works, and founded gas and water works. In 1872/73 he had acquired the coal and salt mine in Königsborn , which had previously been in crisis, from the Prussian state , the salt works in Unna. After the purchase, he immediately began converting Unna-Königsborn into a fashionable spa. In 1881 Grillo had the spa facilities there expanded and gave them a new look . “The new bath house, in which mainly thermal baths from the newly acquired hot spring in Werries near Hamm are to be given, with its elegant and graceful facade represents an ornament of the whole complex. [...] All in all are in the new bath house 80 bath cells ”, and next to it was a spa house in Unna“ with twenty large and comfortable lodging rooms. ”The bath house in Unna was visited by numerous representatives of the Westphalian nobility and other prominent figures while Grillo was still alive. The entrepreneur was incapacitated just a few years later and died in an asylum.
In retrospect, the sale of the spring was called a shield bourgeois prank . Compared to the potential of the system, Grillo had paid a reasonable price.
The Bad Hamm corporation
After the Hammer Brunnen became the property of Saline Königsborn, the salt water had to be transported from Werries to Unna. For this purpose, a 25 kilometer long, cast iron pipeline was laid through Ostenallee, Nordring with a junction at Calweyschen and Engelschen Mühle, Wilhelmstrasse and over Daberg. The representatives of the bathing committee , Kommerzienrat Otto Wiethaus and businessman Hermann Engels, agreed after the sale of the brine spring in the interest of the city of Hamm that a bathing establishment would be supplied with salt water. In the contract with Saline Königsborn it was stated that the bathing committee from Hamm should be allowed to take brine for ever : For the removal of the sole [sic!] The bathing establishment pays monthly in arrears based on the books [...] for each bath administered 20 pfennigs . That corresponded to 15 pfennigs per cubic meter. An upper limit for the amount of brine to be taken was agreed. In the period from May 15 to September 15, a quantity of 25,000 cubic meters could not be exceeded
On April 21, 1882, several gentlemen from business and politics met in the town hall in Hamm and founded the Bad Hamm corporation with a chapter of 99,000 marks. They put the commitment to the medicinal bath of the Hammer Wells on a new basis. The bathing committee ran the business of the stock corporation, which was to operate until 1923; after that, the bathing business was taken over by the city. It was founded in the presence of Mayor Werner, but without the participation of the city administration; the AG Bad Hamm consisted only of private individuals. On Friday evening 6 1/2 o'clock the city of Hamm finally came down happily with a hopefully healthy new company after heavy labor: The bath has been founded , according to the Westfälischer Anzeiger on April 25, 1882. The Supervisory Board of the Bad Hamm corporation in 1888 included: Factory director Otto Wethaus, banker Hermann Gerson, manor owner Jakob Loeb, businessman Carl Rollmann, businessman Hermann Engels, factory owner Stephan Hobrecker. The board member was businessman Hermann Schmidt. Fritz Weg worked as an administrator. In 1882, lawyer Schulz was a member of the supervisory board, while mayor Werner had refused to be elected to this body.
Immediately after the discovery of the spring, the idea was expressed to direct the brine near the local Schützenhof and to set up a bathing facility there . The Westfälische Anzeiger wrote with reference to economic prospects: The constant use of the two primitive tubs set up at the borehole in a hall house is sufficient evidence of the high frequency a closer bath house set up in the Hermitage would find . The bathing Comité as the Company's management Bad Hamm so devoted himself first to the construction scheme for the construction of the new bath at the East Schützenhof, bath house, lodge and brine line to Unna. The Schützenhof was located at the Hermitage, a park on Ostenallee that had been laid out under General Carl Friedrich von Wolffersdorff (1716–1781). The corporation bought eight acres of land there from the landlord Feldhaus. This land should be used for the construction of the spa park; in addition, further green spaces were created two kilometers east of the city. As the Centralblatt reported to the building authorities in January 1882, the architects' association announced a competition. In the Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung of February 11, 1882, p. 52, it says: The association members [of the architects' association] are faced with three new interesting competition tasks: 1) The design of a spa and bathing facility in Hamm ad Lippe, consisting of two Bath houses, a spa and lodge house with a dining room for 200 people, 40 lodgings plus all accessories, and a machine house . According to Andreas von Scheven, designs for the spa and bathing facilities were put out to tender by the Berlin Architects' Association on February 11, 1882. But initially no appealing design could be found. The corporation therefore decided on April 21, 1882 to commission the Düsseldorf architect Wilhelm Sültenfuß (1844–1924), who already had extensive experience in bathing architecture through his work in Bad Königsborn / Unna, to design the buildings in Bad Hamm. Under his guidance, the line to Unna-Königsborn and the small bathhouse next to the Schützenhof, each with eight bathtubs for men and women, were built.
According to documents in the Düsseldorf city archive, Sültenfuß was to receive an honor such as the award of the title of professor h. c. be granted. In this context, a vita was written: The first independent work of importance is the design and implementation of the Mellin Foundation with church for both denominations in Werl. After its completion, he became a master builder and technical director of the Königsborn trade union near Unna, led the new buildings for all of the thermal baths in Königsborn and the city of Hamm as well as the over 20 km long pipes from the Werries thermal spring through the city of Hamm to Unna-Königsborn with the mechanical buildings, as well as salt works, buildings above ground of the Königsborn colliery and workers' apartments. At the same time he designed and managed school buildings for the Unna-Camen, Unna-Königsborn and Unna offices, as well as churches in Unna and Lünen, for both denominations, several villas, commercial buildings and the largest estate in Cattle near Hamm. After he had voluntarily given up his activity at the Königsborn union, he continued his studies at the universities there in Hanover and Vienna .
On May 12, 1882, the pipeline was completed which led most of the brine from Hamm to Unna. On the same day there was a burst pipe, the first of a whole series in at least a three-digit number. Repair teams have been part of the townscape in Hamm ever since. The construction work on the bathing facilities, however, progressed rapidly, so that the bathhouse, the foundation stone of which was laid on May 8, could be completed in a kind of lightweight construction within three months.
What was doubted by various parties has now been made possible: Our bath Hamm was opened on July 15, 1882 and put into use , according to the Westfälischer Anzeiger on July 18, 1882. The water was led to the bath house and into the tubs there filled. Founded by a small number of common citizens, the company has already proven to be viable thanks to the excellent quality of the thermal tools. The construction of a functionally furnished bath house was followed by the establishment of a stately lodging house in the bathing park surrounded by municipal facilities , it says in the report on the administration and the status of community affairs in the city of Hamm 1881–1886, Hamm 1887, p The opening date of the information in the local press is August 15, 1882 in the administrative report. It is unclear whether the contradicting tradition has a factual background or is based on a printing error. The lodging house was built in 1885 by government building officer Paul Boner. The same administrative report of the city mentioned the arrangement of the parks: In 1883/4 a part of the former Heimbeck Kotten behind the bathing area Hamm, the Schützenhofe and the Hermitage was provided with parks .
The healing properties of the brine
Around 1800, the doctor Johann Wilhelm Tolberg (1762–1831) dealt with the healing properties of brine for the first time. Today he is considered a pioneer in brine treatment. At that time he was working at the saltworks near Elmen near Magdeburg (in Schönbeck / Saxony-Anhalt) and learned rather by chance in conversations with the salt workers that they treated respiratory diseases and skin problems with brine. Tolberg experimented with the solution, and his successes led to the establishment of the oldest brine bath in Germany, Bad Salzelmen, in 1802. As a result, numerous brine baths developed in Westphalia in the 19th century. 1800: Höxter-Godelsheim, 1816: Unna-Königsborn (Luisenstadt), 1817: Bad Salzuflen, 1820: Hagen-Reh, 1823: Soest, before 1826: Salzkotten, 1839: Bad Oeynhausen, around 1840: Dortmund Fredenbaum, 1842: Erwitte- Westernkotten, 1846: Werl, 1857: Bielefeld-Heepen, 1857: Recklinghausen-Grull, 1859: Dortmund-Neuasseln and Kalletal-Kalldorf, 1872: Bad Sassendorf, 1873: Werne, 1876: Hamm-Werries, 1888: Minden-Zollern, Rheine -Bentlage, 1894: Herne-Wanne and Minden Solbad, around 1900: Recklinghausen-Steinbeck and Recklinghausen colliery König Ludwig, 1905: Lippstadt-Bad Waldliesborn, 1907: Borgholzhausen-Ravensberg, 1934: Warstein-Belecke. The Hellweg area in particular will be home to many baths.
Meyers Konversationslexikon from 1885 describes the healing properties of the brine bath: The brine baths exert an energetic stimulus on the skin, promote the blood circulation in the same as well as the skin evaporation and thus have a powerful effect on the entire nutritional process by increasing the appetite and assimilation. Pathological exudations, swelling of the glands, hardening of the organs, chronic skin rashes and ulcers are thereby brought to healing. In all scrupulous affections, in particular, the brine baths are used with obvious success . The increase in appetite and the treatment of TB and scrofula , which at that time were still part of the standard spa medicine program, are no longer on the list of indications today.
To this day, brine is used in the treatment of skin and respiratory diseases as well as in orthopedic indications. The brine bath helps with joint and bone problems. The salt alleviates the pain, the movement in the water relieves the joints and has a stress-relieving effect. The use of brine also has a positive effect on skin diseases. When inhaling the aerosols, the airways are moistened. The smallest crystals of the salt settle inside the respiratory tract and have a secretion dissolving effect. The respiratory tract is cleaned of bacteria. The Meinberg and Salzelmen baths now offer cures to treat tinnitus .
At the beginning of the 20th century, Bad Hamm stated that it had positive effects on the following diseases: heart disease, rheumatism, gout, diseases of the spinal cord, catarrh of the mucous membranes, chronic lung diseases, chronic inflammation of the liver and spleen, exudates, gynecological diseases, bleaching and anemia as well as scrofula. The facility initially offered Sol thermal baths in eight tubs each for women and men or Sol local showers as well as inhalation with atomized brine, sweat baths, artificial sulfur and mud baths, cold and warm river baths and massages. In 1888, the senior staff and regimental doctor Adalbert Brzunzlow headed the medical department as a spa doctor. Furthermore, a cashier, a bath attendant, a bath attendant, a massageist, a gardener and a typist were employed in Bad Hamm at the same time. The workforce was later increased further. For example, a bathing commissioner was part of the workforce as early as 1900.
In the brochure Thermal-Solbad Hamm (Westf.), Guide through the Bad Hamm, published by the administration of the bath, it was said: Regularly and daily bathers [sic!] A certain bathing cell is kept at a certain hour, as far as possible . The liquid from the Werrieser fountain was apparently only used relatively rarely for drinking cures. The baths almanac from 1930 lists drinking cures with crystal clear brine among the health treatments in addition to swimming, air baths and sun baths . The internal use of the saline solution was entirely possible if one followed the advice of the Westphalian Courier of August 8, 1925: One only has to dilute the brine with water because of the high salt content . Gargling with brine was one of the therapeutic recommendations. Two gargling rooms were specially set up for this. The administration of freshly filled mineral water was also part of the medical program.
Bad Hamm becomes famous
With the opening of the bathhouse and thus the bathing business on July 15, 1882, the Bad Hamm corporation hoped that the new spa would meet all requirements and would soon flourish. Lively interest was hoped for during the bathing season from May to September. The development in the early years did not meet expectations. Bad Hamm was still unknown to the corresponding clientele and had to first acquire its reputation. The direct competitor in particular was Bad Königsborn, which was more attractive at the time and also offered appropriate accommodation options for external spa guests that had not been available in Hamm to date.
To remedy this, the stock corporation decided to build a spa and lodging house next to the bathhouse. Today this would be called a spa center, which combined several functions under one roof. For the time, it was certainly a forward-looking concept. The contract for this was awarded to the Hammer government master builder Paul Boner, who was able to hand over the completed new building at the opening of the summer swimming season on May 16, 1885. This created all the prerequisites to treat, accommodate and entertain the bathers.
In the report on the administration and the status of community affairs in the city of Hamm 1881–1886, the city of Hamm states: Unmistakable healing successes have raised the reputation of the spa and the frequency is increasing from year to year . The bathing administration was able to advertise the health resort with health successes and numerous overnight accommodations and friendly garden designs. The number of guests in Bad Hamm increased steadily until the beginning of the First World War . In 1880, only 79 well-to-do spa guests (factory owners, merchants, judges, landowners, captains, etc.) and their wives were among the visitors to the spa (other information: 92). In 1882 the new bath at the Hermitage on Ostenallee already attracted 368 guests to Hamm (other information: 229, including 42 children); several thousand baths were administered. In 1893 there were 1,533 spa guests; In 1894, 2,037 spa guests were served. In 1896, 2,000 guests came to Bad Hamm and took 12,017 baths. In addition, in the same year, 279 poor baths were given to people who lacked the financial means. They were probably paid as a voluntary welfare benefit from the community treasury. The more guests came, the more the number of poor baths fell . In 1890 there were 700 baths for the workers and 262 baths for the poor, in 1896 279 baths for the poor were administered, in 1901 with 3,000 guests and 19,000 baths only 154 baths for the poor.
In public it was announced that a horse-drawn tram would be set up from the train station (at that time: the train station on Pelkumer Chaussee ) to the pool . This proposal was only implemented later. We doubt that the lack of a horse-drawn tram could have an adverse effect on visits to the baths, because this fact is negligible compared to the significant advantages that Bad Hamm can offer , explained a letter to the editor in the Westfälisches Anzeiger of June 8, 1882, who estimated the infrastructure as a prerequisite for economic success to be very low. The advantages of the bath, medical success, a pleasant location and cultural offerings ensured that the city bath, which opened in 1913 and also offered brine and thermal baths, did not represent any serious competition for Bad Hamm.
The Baths Almanac 1905 praised the bath remedy, which was now under the direction of the doctor Gustav Liebau, as one of the richest thermal brines . The administration ran extensive advertising for individual spa treatments and, above all, varied leisure activities such as concerts, music and reading rooms, boat trips, fishing and excursions . In comparison to competing pools in Unna, Werl or Liesborn, Hamm was only able to win over with limited attractiveness due to its clear industrial structures. Nevertheless, people who primarily wanted to do something good for their health and were not primarily interested in cultural offers chose the Lippe city as a health resort. The city's location at the junction of various railway lines was favorable for this. In front of the train station, travelers could change into cabs or, since 1898, travel by electric tram to Hammer Osten in around 25 minutes . Every eight minutes the tram ran from the main train station in Hamm (Westphalia) to Bad Hamm from six in the morning until ten in the evening. In the first half of the 1890s, the Ostenallee, which was unpaved until then , was paved as far as it is occupied by the Hermitage , so that the journey was a bit more comfortable. If the guest was able to walk easily, he could reach the spa gardens and the bathing facilities from the train station in 25 minutes. The luggage was transported by horse cart. Finally, the city installed gas lighting on Ostenallee. In this way, good conditions were created for the fact that notable celebrities gathered in Hamm.
In addition to files from the State Archives in Münster, the Hammer Bade-Zeitung provides information about the inpatient guests in the bathroom. The Hammer Bade-Zeitung was published by Emil Gribsch from 1899 until the outbreak of war in 1914. The editor was initially Hans R. Fischer, from 1901 to 1914 Emil Vogel. The sheet, which was printed for the public by the bathing administration, published lists of the spa guests by name, along with the lodgings in which they had stayed. In 1911, factory owner Witheley from New York , officer Orsinsky from St. Petersburg, Baron Olivier from Paris, a councilor from Boston, a retired couple from Milan and a lady from Tanga (East Africa) were among the visitors to Bad Hamm. On September 14, 1912, the newspaper listed Your Highness Princess Viktoria zu Bentheim and Steinfurt, Bentheim Castle among the spa guests. The princess came to the Hotel Feldhaus with her lady-in-waiting, Fraulein Beulwitz and the waitress . At the same time, the lawyers of the higher regional court judge Gusinde from Frankfurt, lawyer Seidenstücker from Hamm and a few trainee lawyers had taken up quarters there.
Outpatients, who were then passed as passers- by, rarely came from afar, but rather from the vicinity of the city of Hamm. Basically, the bourgeois, and occasionally the aristocratic, world was primarily active in the bathroom. The factory director Hobrecker and his family were among the better-known personalities; it was common practice at the time to take spa treatments with the whole family. Before the First World War, cures for the people were only possible in exceptional cases: as a mild gift to the poor, as a voluntary benefit in individual cases, but not as an insurance-based right. Therefore, in the statistics of the bathing administration in the first decades there was talk of poor baths . The local press praised Bad Hamm as a place to relax for all those for whom a distant vacation trip was too expensive. The quality of the bath is proven by the fact that some guests can celebrate their 25 or 30 year bathing anniversary in Hamm in 1914. In the Westfälischer Anzeiger of July 15, 1914 it was said: The most loyal spa guest, Mr. Kromberg from Werden, whose picture adorns the entrance hall of the bathhouse, is already spending the 35th season in Bad Hamm this year . In 1920 the bathing administration advertised in its prospectus Thermal-Solbad Hamm Westf. That a number of loyal spa guests ... could already celebrate the 25th and 30th anniversary of the spa, a festivity at which all spa guests and also the bathing administration takes an active part .
Prince Eitel Friedrich , the son of Kaiser Wilhelm II , stayed in the Ostenschützenhof in the spa gardens not as a spa guest, but because of the representative surroundings . After the great mine accident at the Radbod colliery , he came to Hamm on November 14, 1908 and tried to calm down the desperate and angry relatives of the 348 miners who had died. In a separate edition of the Westphalian Gazette of November 14, 1908 it says: The prince chatted with the women and children, comforted them and shook hands with everyone . Miners meanwhile shouted: Your Royal Highness, more worker protection! Despite the protests, which were supposed to be controlled by a large police presence, the presence of the prince contributed significantly to the reassurance of the people. In the evening the prince had dinner in the company of illustrious gentlemen in the Schützenhof. At around 10 a.m. the next morning, Eitel Friedrich drove to the colliery again by car and in the afternoon took the train back to Berlin . The Westphalian November of November 16, 1908 read: The prince was greeted by a large crowd all the way from the Schützenhof to the train station . A photograph from the holdings of the Gustav-Lübcke-Museum shows the prince in the car in front of the Kurhaus that morning.
Bad Hamm and mining
The upward trend in Bad Hamm was by no means unchallenged. Although it owed its existence to the search for coal, it was permanently threatened by the coal drilling. After coal was discovered in the Hamm area, around the turn of the century there was a call that the spring should be sold or plugged in order not to endanger the mining and extraction of coal. In fact, the Hammer collieries, especially the Maximilian colliery , had to struggle with ingress of salty water again and again in later years. In 1899/1900 the Upper Palatinate ironworks company Maximilianhütte from Sulzbach-Rosenberg acquired the rights to a mine field near Hamm; she saw the sinking work being hampered by the brine spring. The tunnels could easily fill up with water.
Felix Wittgenstein from the Association for the Elevation of Industry and Traffic in Hamm in Westphalia reacted with alarm and turned to the city's magistrate with the suggestion to buy the source in the hope that this brine source will be preserved for us . Not only the city's merchants viewed this development critically and feared for the clientele of the spa guests. Efferzt, the director of the Königsborn saltworks, turned to the Oberbergamt in Dortmund on July 12, 1901, as the Werries spring is in extreme danger, to the extent that it can be completely lost . There was a threat to the existence of the saltworks in Unna, because only the saltwater from the Werries spring is used to extract salt in our boiling plants . It has also been used for the maintenance of the Königsborn and Hamm swimming pools for 19 years . The quintessence: The spring forms the foundation of our entire salt works. Withdrawal of the same would mean the ruin of our salt works . Not only the commercial salt production was completely dependent on the source in Werries, but also hotels and lodging houses on the bathing business. A lot of open businesses have also sprung up, which live almost exclusively from bathing traffic .
Maximilianhütte vigorously countered the letter from Saline Königsborn and tried to sweep the arguments formulated in Unna and the reference to endangered jobs off the table. It is a source that never had any meaning . The criticism was devastating: Bad Hamm is also non-existent as such, which is best shown by the fact that the first innkeepers who hosted bathers sell their property as soon as possible without income, so as not to have to continue working at a loss .
Von der Marck had cautiously prophesied that the spring would dry up, but the competition with the mine seemed to give rise to his fears. But despite violent attacks, the mining company was unable to force its competitors in Bad Hamm to close the source. Therefore, the history of the health resort continued for a few decades and made up part of the mighty upswing of the city of Hamm , with which the bathing administration promoted Bad Hamm in the second decade of the 20th century.
Accommodations
The spa facilities consisted of thermal brine baths, an inhalatorium and special departments for mud packs and other applications. Numerous sports and leisure facilities have been made available for the spa guests. This included a tennis facility, swimming in the Jahnfreibad as well as the opportunity to fish and row in the Lippe. Up until 1939 there were around 350 beds available to spa guests in the spa house, hotels and private houses.
For the accommodation of the growing number of guests (tourists and the sick) in the 1890s, the rooms of the lodging house (Kurhaus) of the public company Bad Hamm (15 rooms) were not sufficient. Soon there was talk of extensions. A number of restaurants and shops have settled near Bad Hamm. In the Ostenallee alone there were around ten hotels and restaurants in 1898 whose name already showed a reference to the bath and the brine spring in Werries, for example Hotel zum Kurgarten , Kurhotel , An der Quelle , Hotel zum Bad Hamm , Hammer Brunnen . In 1903 the address book of the city of Hamm on Ostenallee listed the following restaurateurs:
- No. 45: Bernhard Czeloth, landlord
- No. 65: Wilhelm Kirchhoff, restaurateur
- No. 66: Konrad Fegers, landlord
- No. 80: Hugo zur Hellen, restaurateur; 1913: 35 rooms Hotel-Pension Feldhaus
- No. 84: Hermann Dix, landlord and beer publisher, Zur Quelle
- No. 87: Anton Pieper, landlord
- No. 88: Wilhelm Herbrecht, restaurateur. The Kurhotel Herbrecht with 40 rooms was run by August Kock, later the so-called little monastery .
- No. 95a: Gustav Röhne, landlord; 1913: Karl Röhne with 25 rooms
- No. 95b: Heinrich Antepoth, landlord
- No. 96: Marie Dickhöfer, widow; Five rooms
- No. 99a: W. Große-Weischede, landlord
- No. 99b: Hubert Höynck, pastry chef and innkeeper
- No. 100: Friedrich Kappelhoff, landlord
- No. 101: Karl Lütkehoff, landlord, Sylverberg; later a children's sanatorium and youth hostel
- No. 109: Heinrich Kirchhoff and brother, restaurateur, to the city garden
- No. 122b: H. Hillmann, host
- No. 149: Friedrich Brinkwirth, landlord.
The board price in the Kurhaus, Hotel Herbrecht and Hotel Feldhaus at that time was 4.50 M. A room with breakfast in a private pension cost 1.50 M. Private boarding houses were popular with spa guests due to their bright and friendly rooms and their lower prices accepted for overnight stay.
In addition to the hotels, there were a large number of restaurants, some of which had guest rooms, for example the Gasthof An der Quelle , the Gasthof Zum Waldschloss , the Gasthof Kaisergarten , the Hotel-Restaurant Silverberg , the Gasthof Hammer Brunnen , the excursion restaurant Stadtgarten and the hotel -Restaurant Kronenburg . In addition, there were some private pensions in the vicinity of the brine bath. Particularly well-known are the Villa Dickhöfer by Maria Dickhöfer, Ostenallee 96, with five guest rooms and the Villa Wilhelmine by Wilhelmine Sensenbusch, Soester Straße 9, with nine guest rooms. In July 1910, Frau Sensenbusch wrote to her niece in Erfurt: Dear Lieschen! Since we've been losing weight these days, we're sending this card, see if you recognize me. Hopefully you like it well in beautiful Erfurt. With us everything is occupied and we have a lot of fun. Many greetings from yours. Uncle u. Aunt Sensenbusch .
Mrs. Frerk had three rooms for guests at Soester Strasse 11a. Ms. Eckey offered the spa guests four rooms at Soester Strasse 11b and H. Gorotmann provided four rooms at Soester Strasse 115.
In the Eickhoff city guide from 1908 it can be read that the Schützenhof was run by the host Prinz. The lodging establishment, then called Kurhaus, was under the management of Stephan Jakob before 1914 and had 45 rooms. According to a handwritten addendum, Josef Belling later took over the house and managed ten rooms. The Kronenburg was at the end of the tram and was a hotel-restaurant with eight rooms.
In the restaurant files, the operators of the inns and hotels repeatedly point out that the demand for simpler, cheaper lodgings was so great that many strangers could no longer find accommodation and had to go to other bathing resorts for a cure . To remedy this, many restaurant operators expanded their buildings. Halls for music and dance events were added. Buildings were also increased in order to be able to offer additional guest rooms.
These efforts were supported by the Hamm police administration, especially since it was in the interest of the city to promote the spa and tourism. There were precise police regulations for the establishment of lodging rooms. There should be at least six lodging rooms with eight beds, which always had to be available to the spa guests and not used for any other purpose and, in particular, were not allowed to be rented out permanently or to serve as the host's family apartment. The lodging rooms also had to be fully furnished.
The spa guest wanted to enjoy his treatments as well. This resulted in restaurants of varying quality in Bad Hamm, from simple pubs to high-standard restaurants, which competed with the large hotels that also had restaurants.
The operators of the corresponding facilities used the bathing brochure to advertise their offers. The following information can be found in the brochures of the Hamm (West.) Swimming pool administration:
- Kurhaus and Bürgererschützenhof (15 rooms). Restorer Stephan Jakob. Wonderful, sheltered and quiet location in the middle of large parks and forests. Board price of Mark 4.50 including room with recognized best catering - reunion, illumination, children's amusement, tennis courts - city kitchen, café with its own pastry shop, concerts three times a week.
- Hotel-Pension Feldhaus (35 rooms) - Hugo zur Hellen: Family pension I. Ranges, pension including rooms from M 4.50 - Large, spacious rooms, hall and ancillary rooms for club and family celebrations, artist concerts.
- Kurhotel Herbrecht (40 rooms) - August Kock house of the first rank, pension from M 4.50 - family pension by agreement, billiards, tennis courts.
- Hotel Röhne (25 rooms) - near the baths, opposite the city park. Nice quiet lodging room. Board price Mark 30.00 per week - 2 minutes from the swimming pool, in close proximity to the city forest, owner Heinrich Harnisch - the cozy family restaurant, café.
- Hotel-Restaurant Kronenburg (8 rooms) - A. Rendel - Good food and drinks. Homemade cakes every day. Farmer and grain mares etc. - Large restoration and social rooms with French. Billiards and piano.
The hotels and restaurants like to advertise in their advertisements with the following arguments: in the immediate vicinity of the baths , pleasant stay for bathers and spa guests , At the same time I draw the honored bathers' attention to my best-equipped guest rooms , highly recommended to spa guests and summer visitors; in the immediate vicinity of the spa and bath house, right by the forest , most pleasant stay for spa guests , large, airy lodging rooms .
Social togetherness always played a major role in the spa business. Concerts and dance events were regularly offered in the hotels and restaurants, which the spa guests and residents of Hammer liked to attend. The hoteliers and innkeepers tried very hard to please their guests. So the brothers Heinrich and Karl Kirchhoff, owners of the excursion restaurant Stadtgarten , built in 1890, advertised around 1899 with modern facilities, a beautiful, shady garden and a spacious hall with every comfort, good food, wines and beers and not to be forgotten : prompt real service . A guest wrote in 1898 to a friend in Gütersloh, today with Kirchhoff in the Kürsassierkonzert, great amusement a. send the Herzl from here. Greetings Fränzchen .
The spa guests also enjoyed themselves in the Bürgerschützenhof, today's Kurhaus, which was a magnet for coffee guests and day trippers. The numerous spa and military concerts as well as club festivities were popular. The commercial exhibition in May 1900 is a special attraction.
In addition to concerts and dance events, numerous sporting activities were offered, as can be seen in a brochure from around 1924. The park opens up its manifold charms to the spa guest as well as the day visitor in need of rest and relaxation. [...] Sports fans can do all kinds of sports in Hamm. Tennis courts are located in the park, even right next to the bathhouse. The boathouse near the park offers boat trips on the Lippe River. The angler can satisfy his passion on the Lippe and the Lippe side canal .
In order to finance the spa operation, a visitor's tax was levied for the maintenance of the parks and concerts. For one person this was five marks (for stays of up to a week). (1920), eight marks for a person (for longer stays), twelve marks for a family (people from the same household). Everyone who needed a cure or stayed longer than three days in Bad Hamm or visited the facilities or the Schützenhof was obliged to pay the visitor's tax.
Bad Hamm thus offered its guests a pleasant stay in every respect, as can be seen in the description of the Wolf family to the teacher Chr. Rathert in Dortmund on August 21, 1910: Bad Hamm (Hotel Feldhaus) 21/8 10 - Dear Herr u . Mrs. Rathert! Hopefully everything is okay with you now, above all, Mr Rathert has hopefully made himself up again. It is just nice here, a stay to be healthy .
There were also a number of souvenir sellers in the city center and in Bad Hamm. Some pieces have been preserved both in the private possession of Hammer citizens and in the municipal Gustav-Lübcke-Museum. This includes drinking glasses that are decorated with pictures of the bathing facility or the city as a souvenir, as well as a mocha cup with a view of Bad Hamm. After the Westphalian Courier of August 8, 1925 , souvenirs from Hamm and writing materials could also be purchased directly on site . In the magazine of the Solebad from 1913, p. 23, the administration advertised: Post, telegraph and telephone in the bathhouse , so that during this time (shortly before the First World War) the comfort of the guests was ensured.
The spa guests could do sports; the tennis court was probably the first in town. Initially, use was reserved exclusively for spa guests. Some postcards show women and men in representative cloakrooms playing lawn tennis, as the sporting discipline imported from England on the lawn or in the open area was called at the time. Bad Hamm also offered its guests boat trips on the Lippe, walks in the surrounding area and horse races on the large parade ground (today part of the spa park with an elephant made of flowers).
As in other spas, an extensive cultural offer followed the bathing operation. A music pavilion was built for concerts. In the brochure Thermal-Solebad Hamm from 1913, p. 6, it says: In addition to the spa concerts, larger club festivities, military concerts, etc. take place almost every Sunday at the Bürgerschützenhof, which spa guests are entitled to visit . In addition, the Kurhaus was a venue for the sports exhibition in March 1897 and for a commercial exhibition in Bad Hamm in 1900. The events were within easy walking distance of the spa guests.
First World War - Bad Hamm becomes a military hospital
The First World War met with enthusiastic approval in Hamm right after it began on August 1, 1914. On August 22, 1914, the Westfälische Anzeiger wrote: On the occasion of the victory near Metz, the bell of the Pauluskirche was rung for an hour yesterday afternoon. Thanksgiving services took place in the Pauluskirche in the evening. Many houses put on flag decorations . Victory frenzy spread. Victorious into France! it said on August 28, 1914 in the Westfälischer Anzeiger. The war was not without consequences for the city, Bad Hamm and the people living there. Despite all the euphoria for victory, the German soldiers had to mourn the wounded and dead. A military hospital for wounded German soldiers was therefore set up at the Schützenhof. In September 1914, one month after the start of the war, there were already sixty wounded in the Schützenhof. There is room for a total of 274 people; The Westfälische Anzeiger reported on September 16, 1914 , that there are about a hundred beds in the large hall . The local press said on September 21, 1914 that the people of Hammer devotedly care for the sick soldiers. Anyone who worked in the hospital today puts their own self behind the great cause of the fatherland . The lady superior of the hospital gladly accepts gifts of love , donations from the population. According to the propaganda of the Westphalian Gazette, the bedridden soldiers still cherished the hope of becoming healthy and fit for war again. Soon to go back to the front to retaliate against the Russian clan [...] is the burning wish of many wounded, so the paper gave the assessment of a visitor to the Schützenhof hospital. In the previous war of 1870/71, the Schützenhof had already served as a hospital for wounded soldiers.
After prisoners of war from France, Belgium and England had just passed the city of Hamm in several trains in covered freight wagons in September, the hospital took in French prisoners with wounded in October 1914. Both among the Germans and the French there were seriously wounded people who were lying on stretchers. They were taken to the Ostenschützenhof in the tram. One of the French told the newspaper that the French battlefield was littered with thousands and thousands of wounded and dead .
In the autumn of 1914, the royal sewer construction authority applied to the city to use the stable building and part of the large parade ground to accommodate the prisoners of war. Against the admission of prisoners, on the other hand, concerns were raised for alleged sanitary considerations. Epidemics were feared in the city, so the military administration promised to house prisoners with infectious diseases separately.
The times of war forced the bathing administration in Hamm to be flexible. Otherwise the bathing season ended regularly in September. After the hospital was set up, it was decided to extend the season over the whole of October and to give the wounded warriors the opportunity to use the healing springs for as long as possible. Some really nice successes have already been achieved by bathing our good soldiers .
After the First World War, the bathing business was hit by economic problems. The Kurhaus is currently rented due to the housing shortage. It contains 30 rooms and a larger common room was still called in the 1920s. The visitor numbers are all the more astonishing. In 1924, 20,161 spa guests were received. After the inflation and the occupation of the Ruhr area in the surrounding area, Bad Hamm seemed to be recovering and in 1925, despite general economic difficulties, it had 29,379 visitors, the previous record.
The bath seemed to have become more attractive due to the renovation work that the city had carried out after purchasing the bathing facilities in 1923. “All rooms have been renovated when the bathroom is transferred to the municipal administration. The fresh colors refresh the eye, painted windows give all rooms a pleasantly subdued light. [...] “The work was carried out by master Stuhldreier, Widumstrasse. Plans for extensions are available for 1928 and are kept in the Hamm City Archives.
Little is known about the history of Bad Hamm during the First World War. The conditions in World War II are also not documented. Tradition may have favored the times when the bathroom was reserved for exclusive circles. Since around the time the city acquired the bath in 1923, only sparse primary information has been preserved, despite the bath's representative function.
Upswing in the Nazi era
The assessment that can be found in the literature so far assumes that the baths have experienced a tremendous upswing due to Bismarck's social security legislation. However, this did not provide a basis for the spa medical care of the broad sections of the population. The perspective only changed when care was sought for the wounded soldiers during the First World War. Only gradually were the basic insurance options extended to salaried employees and other employees. In 1930 the guests of the Knappschaftskrankenhaus near Bad Hamm enjoyed the brine; a line was laid there. In the period from 1933 to 1945, the provision of health baths and similar facilities to the people's comrades was an aspect of the National Socialist ideology with which the brown rulers tried to win the Germans over. With the aim of raising the standard of Public Health took Propaganda Minister Goebbels on 1 June 1933 Spa Association and the tourism associations for the Association of German Transport Associations and baths together. Order No. 22 of February 22, 1937 , drawn up in Bad Salzuflen, standardized pricing and defined definitions of mineral springs, baths and health resorts.
Bad Hamm used to dream away in a "deep slumber". Since the turnaround brought about by the National Socialist Revolution, however, things have been steadily improving, judged the Westphalian Anzeiger. In 1937 the Hammer Kurpark was redesigned, the animal sculptures for the Hamer Kurpark were just being developed by Franz Breitholz and extensive renovation work was carried out inside and outside the Kurhaus. The illuminated fountain aroused astonishment and admiration not only among the former guards hunters from Rhineland and Westphalia, who met in May 1937 for a conference in the mirror hall of the Kurhaus and went for a walk in the spa gardens. The sixtieth anniversary of Bad Hamm was certainly not without advertising impact. In June 1937 it was celebrated at great expense. At the same time and in connection with it, the Gustav-Lübcke-Museum opened the exhibition Living Prehistory , followed by the big ceremony in the Kurhaus. A big summer festival in Bad Hamm was staged with the illuminated fountain, thousands of lanterns and a festival concert, as splendid as the people of the country have never experienced . The opening of the baths to the national comrades leads to a boom in spa guests. The guests stayed longer, and the working population , as it was called in the Westphalian Gazette, used the recreational facilities in Hamm. As the newspaper reported on May 15, 1937, an increase in the number of bathers by 106 percent was counted from 1933 to 1936. At Pentecost 1937, all 400 beds that could be made available to the spa guests were fully booked. While Germany overwhelmed neighboring countries with a war of annihilation, the spa flourished until 1944 and in the middle of the war years offered impressive cultural events such as concerts.
The Schützenhof, acquired by the city in 1931, served as a venue for political events during the National Socialist era. On March 13, 1933, SS-Sturmbann II / 30 held its first evening of comradeship there, including cultural performances under the direction of SS-Untersturmbannführer Ronnenbach. Photos from the Gustav-Lübcke-Museum show the representative building with Nazi flags. The reason for the flagging is unclear. Hammer and mallet could indicate an event by mining workers. An interior shot was taken on the occasion of a meeting of the senior mountain officials in the Kurhaus. Another photo shows so-called NSV nurses with uniformed men eating in the Kurhaus hall.
In 1941 the city of Hamm, which had owned the bathing facilities for almost two decades, bought back the source in Werries from the Königsborn salt works. Occasionally, the reason given for the purchase is that the city wanted to bring the pipeline or the burst pipes in the line to Königsborn under its control in this way. The burst pipes were undoubtedly a permanent problem and made the brine of the Hammer Wells rather sadly popular. Since Bad Königsborn closed its doors in the same year, the brine only had to be sent to the bathhouse and the miners' hospital, but no longer across the city to Unna. The reasoning mentioned is therefore not very convincing. There is a lot to be said for the fact that the upswing in the bathroom during the Nazi era made property seem tempting. And before the Königsborn saltworks could shut down the source and dismantle the facilities, the Werries fountain became the property of the city.
Towards the end of the Second World War, the bathhouse was used for other purposes and the entire bathing business was shut down. The bathhouse and lodging house were used to house homeless people, especially children. At that time, communal food was given out in the Kurhaus for the homeless in the bathhouse and on Sylverberg. The formerly representative parks, which were awarded prizes around 1900, were used to grow vegetables in the immediate post-war period. The Kurhaus lost its ballroom in the Second World War. The northern transverse wing near the brine bath was affected by war damage (degree of damage about 25%).
post war period
In 1947/48 the boiler house was expanded to operate a high-pressure steam boiler. In 1950 the north wing was restored. Despite the destruction, bathing with brine baths started again on July 7, 1945, even if time restrictions had to be accepted due to the lack of coal. There was initially a lack of overnight accommodation. At the same time, the bathing facilities were increasingly used for cleaning baths. There was great demand because only a few houses had bathrooms at that time. In 1946 alone, almost 40,000 baths were sold. 15 of the 38 tubs in the bathhouse were available for body cleansing, while healing treatments continued to be carried out in the others.
In 1947 Bad Hamm joined the newly founded bathing association and experienced a new heyday. It is the hope and wish of the city of Hamm to receive the necessary funds to rebuild their brine bath as soon as possible so that it can again, as before, be fully used in the service of public health. Another request is the clearance of the Kurhaus, which is still predominantly claimed by the occupying power, formulated the bathing administration in June 1950.
Hopes that the spa would again serve the public health as it was before were dashed. In 1955, Bad Hamm was deleted as a health resort from the list of social insurance carriers, which until then had assumed 80% of the costs. That sealed the end of the bath. In 1957, the city handed over the indoor swimming pool, outdoor swimming pool and spa facility to Stadtwerke Hamm . In 1960 the bathhouse and the overnight building were demolished. The spring in Werries continued to bubble until 1972 and was initially continued to be used by the manual therapy clinic, which continued to make the new bathhouse available to all citizens of the city. But without social and financial support, for example through insurance, the costs of carrying out the cures could not be raised. The spring eventually dried up, presumably due to landslides during mining operations. This epoch in the city's history came to an end.
Children's health home Sylverberg
A special target group of the bathing business in the 19th and 20th centuries were the children, who often grew up in poor circumstances and had to struggle with major health problems. In the 19th century, for example, the citizens of Hammer had sent their sick children to Bad Sassendorf for a cure, where there was a children's sanatorium for scrofulous children. Bad Königsborn also carried out a considerable number of children's cures. Bad Salzuflen had seen rapid growth after the decision was made to set up a children's sanatorium. In Hamm, considerations about setting up a children's sanatorium were under discussion, but were not implemented for a long time. In the 20th century, the Sylverberg house in the spa gardens of Bad Hamm was used at times to accommodate sick children.
The Sylverberg building was built in the mid-19th century and was run by Karl Lütkehoff as a gastronomic business until 1920. From 1920 to 1922 the Hiltrup missionaries from the Sacred Heart of Jesus found their domicile here, who after the First World War had increasingly dedicated themselves to missionary work in Germany. As early as 1922 they moved into the building Ostenallee 88, formerly Hotel Herbrecht und Kock, which used to be popularly known as the little monastery . After the Second World War, the house became municipal property and served, among other things, as an administration building. It has since been torn down.
Since 1923 the building on the Sylverberg served as a municipal children's health home. The city's health department carried out children's cures there. From 1923 to 1933 Miss Hagedorn , then Miss Birkholz, ran the home for the inpatient placement of the children. Since 1937 the management was in the hands of Miss Düchting . Next to the main building there were four lounge halls, of which the one closest to Elchstraße was converted into a children's spa, while the old building became the property of the city of Hamm and was handed over to the Reich Association for German Youth Hostels. After the children were housed in the neighboring buildings, a department of the voluntary labor service was quartered here in 1934. The youth hostel moved in under the management of the Brors family as early as 1935. In 1936, Anneliese Beeck was followed by an SS equestrian squadron. On May 12, 1937, the NSV children's recreation center in Bad Hamm was opened with greetings to the Führer and the National Socialist flag was raised. Children's day cures were carried out there, and longer stays were also possible. The first fifty children arrived in Sylverberg on May 12th and were to stay for six weeks. Among other things, they received brine baths in the bathhouse. The main difference to the earlier facility, according to the Westphalian Gazette's advertisement for the National Socialist People's Welfare, is that the children's parents no longer incur any expenses . This promotion of children should be seen against the background, according to the local press, that the Führer has declared the German child to be the most valuable possession of our people . The cures in the Bad Hamm spa park, which have been carried out in the daycare center since 1937, were continued as outpatient treatment during the war years. The children came from the city and were driven to the east of the city in a summer tram from Hamm and brought back home in the evening.
After the Second World War, the children's health home was able to be rebuilt. On June 1, 1947, it started operating again. During this time, tuberculosis was on the rise. The scabies became increasingly widespread due to an acute lack of soap. The charities sent children who were in need of rest and children with tuberculosis to the Sylverberg. About sixty children were each accommodated in the sanatorium for six to eight weeks to recover. They were given brine baths in the bathhouse next door. After the brine bath, there was a longer break for the children. They were wrapped in white sheets and blankets . The children's health home existed until 1963. On February 1, 1964, a day-care center was set up in the building, and it still exists today.
Old miners' hospital
The Old Knappschaftskrankenhaus , which is now called Marienhospital II , is located near Bad Hamm .
Boathouse
The boathouse is a restaurant located directly on the Lippe on Fährstraße. As early as the 1950s, it was a popular restaurant for day trips. The landlord died in the early 1980s. After that, the boathouse stood empty for a while, and under the new owner developed into a popular youth club. On April 17, 1997, the boathouse burned down completely. After the rebuilding, the Chinese fast-paced restaurant Mr. Phung moved in here, whose headquarters are in the Allee-Center (city center). The boathouse was therefore called Mr. Phung until mid-2009 . In 2009, Mr. Phung left the place to focus on his Chinese snacks. The boathouse was taken over by another, also Chinese, restaurateur and has since been called the boathouse again
Manual Therapy Clinic
The Clinic for Manual Therapy treats joint ailments, diseases spec. the spine and other chronic pain disorders of the musculoskeletal system.
The doctor Gottfried Gutmann (May 18, 1911 to March 16, 1990), who practiced at Marktplatz 12 in Hamm, was the driving force behind the establishment of the manual therapy clinic, which succeeded the Bad Hamm bathhouse and continued to administer saltwater baths.
Gutmann was a pioneer of chiropractic medicine, a method that was not recognized by conventional medicine for a long time. Gottfried had developed an interest in alternative healing methods since around 1950. In 1949 a lecture by Johann von Velten gave him the key experience. He attended a conference in Hamm that was almost exclusively devoted to chiropractic. Soon afterwards Gutmann was giving lectures himself, with which he met with a considerable response in Hamm. Finally in 1972 he received a chair at the University of Münster. In the 1950s, doctors organized nationally in the interest of new chiropractic healing methods. On December 22nd, 1962, the Research Foundation for Arthrology and Chiro Therapy eV (FAC) was registered in the Hammer Register of Associations, and on November 18th, 1978 the German Society for Manual Medicine . The FAC held symposia in the Kurhaus or met in Gutmann's private practice on the market.
In the second half of the 1950s, the chiropractors developed their first ideas for a clinic and founded a clinic association . Hamm became the center of medical chiropractic. The city administration, in turn, endeavored to modernize and rationalize its bathroom. Gutmann put it briefly: The city of Hamm wanted to keep its bathroom without having to keep it . In the heritable building contract dated October 27, 1959, she left the building site at the Kurpark to the clinic association for a symbolic German mark.
The first construction phase of the new facility was completed in November 1960 and the old bathhouse was demolished. At the same time, the foundation stone was laid for the actual clinic. The new clinic for manual therapy on the site of the old bathhouse in Bad Hamm is to become a healing and teaching center for chiropractic methods, the importance of which extends far beyond Hamm, was held on Saturday in a ceremony in the ballroom of the Kurhaus for the inauguration of the new bathhouse and the laying of the foundation stone Clinic emphasized it said in the Westphalian Gazette.
Gottfried Gutmann initially worked with his Clinic for Manual Therapy in the western section of the old bathhouse and occasionally had to expect surprises : one day when a patient I knew took a bath in one of the ancient wooden tubs, the bottom of the tub broke through and the patient found herself in the supply cellar below .
The Hammer Sole, reports Gutmann, lacks a sufficiently high carbon dioxide content . To compensate for this, a process for the production of artificial carbonic acid baths was used. Initially, the clinic had six baths (the old bathhouse had 44), which were optionally filled with brine, water or carbon dioxide. A brine exercise bath measuring eight by three meters, cabins for packs, massages and electrotherapy were also part of the equipment.
At the end of February 1963, Germany's first manual therapy clinic was completed in Hamm for around 2.8 million DM with a capacity of 40 beds. On March 2, 1963, the grand opening was celebrated in the theater of the Kurhaus. Gutmann: An association of practicing doctors is building a clinic in a spa: a modern fairy tale! . Gutmann headed the facility as chief physician from 1963 to 1979.
At first the house only worked with tolerable losses . In 1973 the former Feldhaus Hotel on Ostenallee rented it for ten years. Since then, the clinic has been able to offer 101 beds. After the inclusion as a special hospital in the hospital requirements plan of North Rhine-Westphalia, the economic situation has improved since 1974. In 2007 the clinic had 138 beds.
Diagnostics, therapy and rehabilitation are the focus of the health offer in the spa area. The clinic specializes in the diagnosis and therapy of diseases of the musculoskeletal system. Since 2003, patients have had the option of outpatient therapy in the fields of orthopedics, cardiology, neurology and oncology in the Bad Hamm Rehabilitation Center, which opened in 2004 on the second floor of the Maximare.
War memorial on the parade ground
The war memorial was erected in 1875 on the west side of Hamm's market square. It was intended to commemorate the fallen in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 . A female figure, representing Germania as a symbol of the German Empire , rises above a six-meter-high base with neo-Gothic style elements and two inscription panels . As early as 1914, the monument was moved to the edge of the parade ground to make room for a second tram track. After the monument was almost removed in 1969 due to its poor state of preservation and - as it was believed at the time - low cultural value, it has been a listed building since 1989, since the historical testimony is now assessed differently. In 2000 it was completely renovated
Kurhaus
The spa house is located in the middle of the spa park with its old trees and the spa park ponds. The building, which dates from the late 19th century, has been a listed building since 1996.
The Kurhaus was created by converting the original Schützenhof ( Ostenschützenhof ). The Schützenhof served the riflemen as well as the spa guests and those interested in culture as an event location. The building was erected in 1867 and a restaurant was added to it in 1869. The veranda was built in 1874. In 1900 a completely new building was built as a hotel and restaurant (operated in 1907 by the host Prince) and a ballroom was added to it in 1924. In 1931 the Schützenhof became the property of the city as a spa house. On September 27, 1987 the Kurhaus, which, like the bathhouse and lodging facility, which were demolished in 1960, was threatened with demolition, was reopened as a historic restaurant after extensive restoration work. The main building of the Kurhaus has been a listed building since 1996. The city's cultural office has been housed in the building since April 2003. The dilapidated theater hall was replaced by a new building this year.
The core of the converted Kurhaus is the multifunctional hall, in which concerts, theater events, exhibitions and festive events such as balls or receptions, congresses and meetings can be held. The realization of the multifunctional hall was preceded by a decades-long discussion about building a new theater. The dilapidated building fabric did not allow renovation of the old theater hall, so that concepts had to be developed that would allow it to be used for a wide range of events. After the head building, today's gastronomy, was entered in the monuments list of the city of Hamm, funding was applied for from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. This meant that the planning could be started in its implementation. The new Kurhaus was officially opened on March 5, 2003 just thirty months after the city of Hamm had decided to build. The listed substance of the front building from 1898 and the hall of mirrors were integrated into the new building. For the multifunctional hall, a building with a cubic facade made of steel and glass was chosen, which clearly stands out from the old building. The steel and glass construction on the north side is intended to create a visual connection to the park landscape. The same construction is used for this purpose on the south side facing Ostenallee; the building complex should merge smoothly into the landscape. The east facade is provided with industrial glazing. Here, next to the small Kurhaus garden, is the stage entrance, through which the actors enter the stage, deliver props, etc. can. Inside, the hall is characterized by exposed concrete, a high proportion of fixed and movable wood paneling in walnut, oak parquet and slate as flooring. There is an orchestra pit, a height-adjustable tilting parquet and four mobile telescopic grandstands that can accommodate around 600 spectators. The systems are supplemented by a movable portal bridge with a stage curtain, acoustic sails under the ceiling and folding shutters to darken the glazed north side. The equipment is designed for flexibility. Wall elements, seats, orchestra pit and stage are movable and can be adjusted for different uses. The new building cost 9.1 million euros and has a total usable area of 2,660 square meters. Further technical data are: Demolition work: 35,000 m 3 ; Volume of old buildings (theater and ballroom as well as the associated outbuildings); Foundation: 71 bored piles with a diameter of 50 cm or 78 cm; Foundation depth 15 to 20 m. Excavated soil: 5,000 m 3 ; Earthmoving shell: 1,950 m 3 of concrete (volume of around three small single-family houses), 220,000 kg of reinforcing steel, 7,800 m 2 of formwork for walls and ceilings, 120 ventilation pipes under the reinforced concrete base (diameter 50 cm); Roof girders, facade supports, special molded parts: total weight 60,000 kg; Facades: 630 m 2 mullion and transom facade, 500 m 2 profile construction glass facade; Electrical and data cables: total length 60,000 m; Scene technology systems, lifting platforms, sloping floors: portal bridge 3,500 kg, crane runway girders 2,000 kg, side podiums 1,750 kg, middle podium 10,700 kg, hinged floor 35,000 kg, safety check of the hinged floor with a weight of 45,000 kg.
In addition to the theater and ballroom, there is also the Hall of Mirrors, which is often rented for festive occasions. The Kurhausgarten offers open-air culture in the summer months.
In addition to the various halls and conference rooms with modern event and conference technology, there is a gastronomic offer. International cuisine is offered in the restaurant-café, the summer garden and the Kurpark-Schänke.
Spa gardens
The clinic for manual therapy and the Kurhaus are surrounded by the spa park on the Datteln-Hamm Canal , which stretches from the city center to the lock in Werries . The area, including the stadiums, the Maximare and the former Jahnbad, has an area of around 66.3 hectares. If you only look at the eastern part including the buildings and Sylverberg, it is around 34.6 hectares. The spa park belongs to the eastern districts / Bad Hamm and Werries in the Hamm-Uentrop district .
When looking at the historical descriptions of the spa park, which was built around 1882, one comes to the conclusion that it should be regarded as a typical city garden in the style of that time in terms of equipment and design. There are tendencies towards the botanical garden or arboretum. At that time the facilities had a considerable number of exotic plants.
Until the 1940s, the Hamm Kurpark developed into a meeting place for foreign guests and local residents. Both did sports here, took part in concerts and theater performances or other cultural events and enjoyed their free time.
After the Second World War, the park clearly took on the appearance of an inner-city green area. The park was adapted to changed usage requirements. Where previously there were lush flower beds, there is now a quiet park structure with wide meadows, closed groups of trees and isolated solitary trees. This partly comes from the beginnings of the spa park. The park is accessed by a subtle route. The spa gardens combine with the play and sports facilities to the west on the site of the former large parade ground to form an important urban green area.
The Kurpark serves the Hammer population as a local recreation area. According to the city's ideas, the grounds of the spa park should in future offer a contrast between tradition and modernity. Centuries-old giant trees on the one hand and art objects on the other are intended to shape the image of the park. This impression is complemented by the spa park ponds and the direct connection of the spa park to the banks of the Lippe and the canal. In this context, a landing stage for pleasure craft and passenger ships is planned. The old boathouse houses a hotel and an Asian restaurant with a view of the water. There is also a new senior citizens' residence at the Kurpark.
Once a year, a well-known and established folk festival takes place in the Kurpark, the Kurparkfest. In addition to a large fireworks display, numerous artists perform in various tents during the major event.
Maximare
As the successor to the Jahn baths and other baths that the city of Hamm had closed in order to generate capacity for the operation of the new baths, the Maximare is following in the footsteps of Bad Hamm. The sports and adventure pool, planned by the Hammer architects Gustav and Christoph Keinemann and implemented for a good thirty million euros, extends over 12,000 square meters and has an approximately 450 square meter outdoor brine pool. The operating company Erlebnistherme Bad Hamm GmbH was able to start operations in mid-November 2003. With the 30 million euro investment, the return of Hamm to the bathing city, which many citizens have longed for for decades, will be accomplished . The location of the bath in connection with the local clinics is chosen in the tradition of former health spa offers on the former large parade ground and is dedicated to the triad of sport, health and wellness .
For marketing reasons, the Maximare is called an adventure spa or a sports and health pool . As in the earlier Bad Hamm, health-conscious and fun-loving visitors can bathe in brine there. The natural brine water has a temperature of 33 degrees; the brine pool is equipped with bubble loungers, water cascades and massage jets. The brine is brought here from the Leinetal, no longer from a nearby spring. It is transported by truck and placed in an outdoor pool. There is a sunbathing lawn around the brine basin for sunny days. The brine can be inhaled in the inhalation hall of the bath.
The Maximare is divided (until the end of 2008) into the areas of aqua world , sauna world and wellness world . The bathroom tries to win over customers through sports, fun and wellness offers. The facilities of the so-called Aquawelt include wave pools (every half hour), adventure pools, warm brine pools, the 95-meter-long tire slide and the 92-meter-long wild water stream. Its speed can be controlled. Depending on the setting, between 300 and 600 liters of water per second run through it, which makes the system usable for different age groups. The water playground is within sight of the wave pool for children up to eight years of age. The sauna area consists of a 2,000-square-foot so-called sauna garden , the Seesauna that Fegefeuersauna , the light sound sauna , the earth sauna , the HAMMAM and Solesee comprises. In the wellness world there are relaxation baths in glass tubs, donkey milk baths, precious stone and oil massages, soap brush massages and sound loungers with individually selectable music.
Extensive renovation work began in the second half of 2008. These are used to implement a new marketing concept. The previous areas of sauna world and wellness world have been given up and replaced with a new concept in which wellness and sauna are to be more closely linked. This new section is offered under the name "Maximare Spa - Sauna & Wellness Resort". At the same time the theater hall of the sauna area, "Arena Mare", is opened.
Sports can be practiced in the fifty-meter-long and twenty-five-meter-wide sports pool. It can be divided by a starting bridge, has a lifting floor with which the water depth can be regulated, and is used by water polo players, swimmers such as the Maxi Swim Team Hamm and school classes.
The reha bad hamm GmbH, which offers outpatient rehabilitation cures, is located in the same building, but organizationally independent of the thermal baths.
Rehabilitation Bad Hamm
The Reha Bad Hamm is a health facility in Hamm.
Graduation tower
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of its existence in 2008, Stadtwerke Hamm decided to donate a graduation tower for the spa gardens. The cost of the project was initially estimated at 250,000 euros, which should be borne in full by the municipal utilities. After it had been shown that the construction costs would be almost twice as high, the city of Hamm decided to finance the second half from a city grant.
Construction work began at the end of 2008. At the end of May 2009, the building was inaugurated.
A graduation tower consists of a wooden structure that is covered with bundles of brushwood (mostly black thorn) on which brine (salt water) trickles (= runs down). The graduation house creates a kind of microclimate that is considered to be particularly healthy and beneficial. The air around the structure is enriched with salt, the water droplets form particles in the air. Similar to the sea air, the salty air is ascribed medicinal effects by a graduation house, for example in pollen allergy sufferers and asthmatics who inhale the salty air. The airways are moistened and the walls of the respiratory organs are positively influenced. The fine salt crystals also have a secretion-dissolving effect, which intensively cleanses the airways of bacteria and causes the mucous membranes to swell. The average lifespan of such a system is around 20 to 40 years, whereby the brushwood has to be renewed regularly.
The graduation tower was initially planned in the eastern part of the spa park, but was later built in the western part, where it can be seen from Ostenallee. It is supplied with brine via a tank. Although there are still brine deposits of their own in the Hammer area, possibly under the spa gardens, these can only be promoted with considerable difficulty and therefore costs.
The graduation tower has a total length of 41.18 meters and a height of 9.5 meters (a comparable facility in Werl is 30 meters long and eight meters high). The futuristic looking tower is the characteristic element of the Hammer graduation tower. It was created at a distance of 2.95 meters, which serves as a passage, to the 31.7 meter long main structure. The roof of the main building is illuminated with white light, the other areas with warmer, yellowish light. The object can thus be seen from afar in the dark. The lighting also serves to deter potential vandals.
Senior citizens' residence Am Kurpark
The senior citizens' residence Am Kurpark is a modern geriatric care center near the Kurpark (Ostenallee 84). The responsible body is Senator Pflegeeinrichtungen GmbH.
Brine rig Werries
The Soleturm Werries stood on Lippestrasse. The landmark of the former heyday of the health resort Bad Hamm was listed for a while, but was more and more exposed to decay due to lack of maintenance and was most recently (as of 2009) in a desolate state. The monument protection of the building was finally lifted. In 2009 the city decided to have the property foreclosed. A market value of 1,000 euros was assumed.
The Westfälische Anzeiger reported:
“The seemingly never-ending story of the brine drilling tower is stretched by a further chapter: With a market value of 1000 euros, the tower ruins and the 1043 square meter property are to be foreclosed by the local court on February 10th. Within a few months, the district court made the second attempt to find a buyer for the bone of contention on Lippestrasse. The owner was able to prevent the first foreclosure auction at short notice and announces that it will not be auctioned this time. "
The sale has now taken place and the brine rig was demolished in 2009.
TTC Grünweiß Bad Hamm 1957 eV
The name of the Grünweiß Bad Hamm table tennis club is reminiscent of the former Hammer bathing establishment.
Individual evidence
- ^ Westfälischer Kurier of June 9, 1938.
- ^ Paul Wittmann: On the history of the evangelical church community Mark , Bielefeld 1949, p. 53.
- ↑ StAM, Kreis Unna, District Office, No. 942. This file lists 1875 for the test drillings, in contrast to numerous other texts which state 1876 as the year the brine was discovered. In the Westfälischer Anzeiger from 16./17. April 1937 it is said that test bores have been carried out since 1874.
- ↑ Alternative information : 1876.
- ^ Eduard Raabe, History of the city of Hamm. Pläseierlik vertallt. , Deil II. Leipzig n.d., p. 197.
- ^ Paul Wittmann, On the history of the Protestant parish of Mark , Bielefeld 1949, p. 53f.
- ^ Advertisement in the Westfälischer Anzeiger from May 9, 1878.
- ↑ hamm.de: Preserving tradition - shaping the future. Bad Hamm spa area (PDF; 381 kB), flyer, accessed on September 10, 2012
- ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger of July 3, 1877.
- ↑ a b c d e f Sole / Bad Hamm at www.hamm.de.
- ↑ a b c d e f Ingrid Bauert-Keertman, Norbert Kattenborn, Liesedore Langhammer, Willy Timm, Herbert Zink, Hamm. Chronicle of a City , Cologne 1965.
- ↑ StAM, Unna district, District Office, no. 942nd
- ^ Eduard Raabe: History of the city of Hamm. Pläseierlik vertallt. Deil II. Leipzig n.d., p. 199.
- ↑ Willy Timm: Salt from Unna. From the Brockhauser salt works to Saline and Bad Königsborn . Unna 1989, p. 58.
- ↑ Hellweger Anzeiger and Bote, May 3, 1882.
- ↑ StAM, Unna district, District Office, Mr. 941.
- ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger of April 25, 1882.
- ↑ StAM, Unna district, District Office, no. 942nd
- ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger, July 3, 1877.
- ^ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung dated February 11, 1882, p. 52
- ↑ Stadtarchiv Düsseldorf: 0-1-3-3820: Secret files of the Lord Mayor concerning medals and titles 1910-1911. f. 96f.
- ^ Westphalian advertisement dated July 18, 1882.
- ^ Report on the administration and the status of community affairs in the city of Hamm 1881–1886, Hamm 1887, p. 28
- ^ Report on the administration and the status of community affairs in the city of Hamm 1881–1886, Hamm 1887, p. 77.
- ↑ Volume 2, p. 221 under Bad.
- ↑ thermal Solabd Hamm (Westphalia.). Guide through the Bad Hamm, ed. from the management of the bath, n.d. n.d. [1913?], p. 20.
- ^ Baths Almanac, notices from baths, climatic health resorts and sanatoriums. Berlin 1930, p. 292f.
- ^ Westfälischer Kurier, August 8, 1925.
- ^ Report on the administration and the status of community affairs in the city of Hamm 1881–1886, Hamm 1887, p. 28.
- ^ Letter to the editor in the Westphalian Gazette of June 8, 1882
- ↑ Bäder-Almanach 1905, p. 222. In 1895, Bad Hamm is said to have been included in the Bäder-Almanach for the first time. See A. Cramer / J. Döring / G. Gutmann: History of Manual Medicine . Berlin u. a. 1990, p. 126.
- ^ Report on the administration and the status of the community affairs of the city of Hamm 1891-1896. Hamm 1897, p. 15.
- ↑ Hammer Bade-Zeitung. Publication organ of the administration of the Hamm baths. Official spa list. September 14, 1912.
- ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger, July 15, 1914
- ^ Westfälischer Anzeiger of November 14, 1908.
- ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger of November 16, 1908
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Hamm City Archives, City of Hamm, No. 1533.
- ↑ Brochure Thermal-Solebad Hamm from 1913, p. 6.
- ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger of August 22, 1918.
- ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger of August 28, 1914.
- ↑ a b c Westfälischer Anzeiger of September 16, 1914.
- ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger of October 10, 1914
- ^ Ribhegge, p. 174.
- ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger of October 29, 1914.
- ^ Westfälischer Anzeiger, September 28, 1814
- ^ Westfälischer Kurier of August 8, 1925
- ^ Westfälischer Kurier of August 8, 1925.
- ^ Deutscher Heilbäderverband eV: 100 years of definitions. Quality standards for the rating of health resorts, recreational facilities and healing fountains and their natural remedies 1904–2004, Bonn 2004, p. 9.
- ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger of May 29, 1937.
- ^ Westfälischer Anzeiger, June 10, 1937.
- ↑ Hamm City Archives, City History Collection, A XX / 29.
- ↑ Anneliese Beeck: Hamm under the swastika 1930–1945. Hamm 2007, p. 71f.
- ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger of May 13, 1937.
- ↑ Barbara Karbon: 25 years of the municipal day-care center Sylverberg, Hamm o. J., p. 7.
- ↑ Internet presence of the boat house ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ A. Cramer / J. Döring / G. Gutmann: History of Manual Medicine . Berlin u. a. 1990, p. 46.
- ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger of November 7, 1960
- ↑ A. Cramer / J. Döring / G. Gutmann: History of Manual Medicine . Berlin u. a. 1990, p. 124.
- ↑ A. Cramer / J. Döring / G. Gutmann: History of Manual Medicine . Berlin u. a. 1990, p. 155.
- ↑ A. Cramer / J. Döring / G. Gutmann: History of Manual Medicine . Berlin u. a. 1990, p. 46.
- ↑ A. Cramer / J. Döring / G. Gutmann: History of Manual Medicine . Berlin u. a. 1990, p. 178.
- ^ Elke Hilscher: Hamm. A lost cityscape , Gudensberg-Gleichen [1995], p. 45f. with two illustrations.
- ↑ Wolfgang Komo: "... without cultural value and artistically a horror"? The memorial for the fallen soldiers of the war 1870/71 on the parade ground , in: Hammer Lesebuch. Stories from the History of the City, ed. by Jürgen Lange, Essen 1991, pp. 30–33.
- ↑ Heinrich Thomas: The war memorial in the East Hammer, inaugurated in 1875, commemorates those who fell in the war of 1870/71 , in: Unser Westfalen 2006, pp. 23–24.
- ↑ Pictures of the Kurhaus in the Hamm Wiki
- ↑ Surveying on a 1: 50,000 map, WGS84 of the State Surveying Office NRW, available on a CD-ROM called Top 50 .
- ↑ Information on the Kurparkfest
- ↑ Information on the Kurparkfest 2004 in the Hammagazin
- ^ Homepage of Maximare Hamm: Brine basin
- ↑ Maximare Hamm, in: Sport Bäder Freizeit Bauten 1/2004, p. 20.
- ↑ Maximare Hamm, in: Sport Bäder Freizeit Bauten 1/2004, p. 24
- ↑ Homepage of Maximare Hamm
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: New marketing concept for sauna and wellness in Maximare; Contribution of the WA. .
- ↑ Homepage of the Maxi Swim Team Hamm
- ↑ Website of the Reha Bad Hamm.
- ↑ Donation of the salt works by the Hamm municipal utility
- ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger of November 4, 2008, Great gem for spa gardens. The groundbreaking ceremony for the graduation tower should be in a few weeks. The facility, which can be seen from afar, is illuminated - Ahse Bridge is eligible for funding .
literature
- Ellen Schwinzer, Maria Perrefort, Ute Knopp, 125 years in Bad Hamm. A journey through time through the bathing history of the city , published in 2007 by the Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Hamm as Notes on City History 13 , accompanying the exhibition of the same name from July 8 to September 23, 2007.
Web links
- Description of all locations on this themed route as part of the Route of Industrial Culture
- LWL for salt production in Hamm (PDF file; 1.23 MB)
- HammWiki to the Kurpark
- Graduation tower Salinen Kurpark Hamm aerial view
Visitor center and anchor points (from west to east): Museum of German Inland Shipping | Inner harbor Duisburg | LVR Industrial Museum Oberhausen | Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord | Gasometer Oberhausen | Aquarius Water Museum | St. Antony Hut | Villa Huegel | Nordsternpark | Zeche Zollverein World Heritage Site and Zollverein Coking Plant | Ewald colliery | Marl Chemical Park | Railway Museum Bochum-Dahlhausen | Henrichshütte | Centennial Hall Bochum | Recklinghausen substation | German Mining Museum | Nightingale colliery | Henrichenburg ship lift | DASA | Hansa coking plant | Zeche Zollern II / IV | Hohenhof | Hagen Open Air Museum | Lindenbrauerei Unna | Maximilian Park Hamm
Themed routes (in ascending order by number): 1. Duisburg: City and Harbor | 2. Industrial cultural landscape Zollverein | 3. Duisburg: industrial culture on the Rhine | 4. Oberhausen: Industry makes the city | 5. Krupp and the city of Essen | 6. Dortmund: triad coal, steel and beer | 7. Industrial culture on the Lippe | 8. Erzbahn-Emscherbruch | 9. Industrial culture at Volme and Ennepe | 10. Brine, steam and coal | 11. Early industrialization | 12. The past and present of the Ruhr | 13. On the way to the blue Emscher | 14. Canals and shipping | 15. Lanes in the area | 16. Westphalian mining route | 17. Rhenish mining route | 18. Chemistry, Glass and Energy | 19. Workers' settlements | 20. Entrepreneur villas | 21. Bread, grain and beer | 22. Myth of the Ruhr Area | 23. Parks and Gardens | 24. Industrial nature | 25. Panoramas and Landmarks | 26. Sacred buildings | 27. Iron & Steel | 28. Water: works, towers and turbines | 29. Bochum - industrial culture in the heart of the district | 30. Gelsenkirchen | 31. Industrial Culture and Bauhaus Route | by bike
Maximilianpark 
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Way to school footbridge |
Werries lock |
Lippe lock Heessen |
Kurpark Hamm |
Water handover Hamm |
Hamm lock |
Klostermühle Pohl |
Water towers on Hellweg |
Hamm train station |
Hamm city harbor |
Zeche Sachsen today Öko-Zentrum NRW |
Vogelsang settlement |
Radbod colliery |
Radbod Colliery Memorial |
Gersteinwerk |
East mine , Heinrich Robert shafts |
Kissinger Höhe 
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Ost colliery , shaft Lerche |
Rünthe express train settlement |
Schacht III cultural center |
Marina Rünthe |
Werne colliery | Old office building today Karl-Pollender-Stadtmuseum Werne |
Monopol mine, Grimberg shaft 1/2 |
Heap of large wood |
Colliery House Aden |
Seepark Lünen |
"Westfalia" canteen |
Prussia port |
Ziethenstrasse settlement 
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"Am Kanal" settlement |
Victoria Settlement |
Brickwork Siegeroth |
Cappenberg Castle |
Lünen power plant |
Zeche Minister Achenbach , shaft 4 with the LÜNTEC tower |
Miners Residential Museum |
Waltrop colliery |
Waltrop Local History Museum in the Riphaushof |
Old Henrichenburg ship lift in the Waltrop lock park |
Beisenkamp settlement |
Hermann Grochtmann Museum |
Canal cross dates |
Remote control center for water supply Datteln |
Datteln-Natrop lock group |
Canal bridge Alte Fahrt |
"Leaning Bridge" in Olfen |
Canal bridge over the Stever | Former Lippe lock Vogelsang |
Waterworks Haltern of Gelsenwasser AG |
Quartz sand and grinder Haltern-Sythen |
Auguste Victoria Mine Shaft 8 |
Auguste Victoria mine shaft 1/2 |
Auguste Victoria mine shaft 3/7 |
Marl Chemical Park |
Ready settlement ( Marl ) of the chemical works Hüls |
Brassert settlement |
Auguste Victoria colliery , shaft 4/5 |
Loemühle Airport |
Ruhrgas Dorsten |
Prince Leopold Mine |
Fürst Leopold settlement |
Dorsten lock group |
Dorsten station |
Gahlenscher Kohlenweg |
Dorsten-Holsterhausen waterworks |
Tüshaus-Mühle |
Menting earth building |
Roof tile works Nelskamp | Lippe-Treidlerdorf Krudenburg |
Black Heath Airfield |
Friedrichsfeld lock group | Former Lippe Harbor Wesel |
Old waterworks Wesel |
Water tower Wesel |
Rhine bridge Wesel |
Municipal Rhine port of Wesel |
Prussia Museum Wesel
Lindenbrauerei Unna |
Old Reichsstrasse 1 |
Historic mining trail Holzwickede |
Emscher spring |
House Opherdicke |
Railway repair shop Schwerte |
Nickel works |
Rohrmeisterei Schwerte |
Formerly mining in Fröndenberg |
Chainsmith Museum |
Wind art and keeper's house |
Gademen range |
Kurpark Königsborn |
Barmer holiday colony | Friedrich Grillo Memorial and Altes Amtshaus |
Königsborn railway station | Porter's house, Koenigsborn 2/5 |
Reinhardstrasse settlement |
Headframe Bönen - East Pole | Backhaus Flierich |
Lenningsen train station |
Kamen train station |
Seseke Bridge |
Monopoly colliery , Grillo shaft |
Monopoly colliery Grimberg shaft 1/2 |
Bergkamen power plant |
Heap of large wood |
Colliery House Aden |
Seepark Lünen with Preußenhalde and pyramid |
Ziethenstrasse settlement |
Prussia port |
"Am Kanal" settlement |
Hüttenwerke Kayser |
Miners Residential Museum |
Zeche Minister Achenbach Schacht 4, LÜNTEC Tower |
Lünen power plant |
Victoria Settlement |
"Westfalia" canteen |
Brickwork Siegeroth |
Colliery Hermann and " Old Colony " |
Cappenberg Castle |
Werne colliery | Old office building today Karl-Pollender-Stadtmuseum Werne |
Marina Rünthe |
Schacht III cultural center |
Rünthe express train settlement and old colony |
Rünthe-Süd settlement |
Gersteinwerk power plant |
Lark shaft |
East mine , Heinrich Robert shafts |
Kissinger Höhe |
Radbod Colliery Memorial |
Radbod colliery |
Hamm city harbor |
Vogelsang settlement |
Zeche Sachsen today Öko-Zentrum NRW |
Hamm train station | Böhler-Welding, formerly Westphalian Union |
Westphalian wire industry |
Hamm gasworks |
Water towers on Hellweg |
Klostermühle Pohl |
Hamm lock |
Water handover Hamm |
Kurpark Hamm |
Lippe lock Heessen |
Werries lock |
Way to school footbridge |
Westphalia power plant |
Maximilian Park
Hill park |
Grugapark Essen |
Main cemetery Mülheim |
Spa gardens of the Solbad Raffelberg |
Botanical Garden Schweizer Strasse |
Friedensplatz Oberhausen |
Revierpark Vonderort |
Leisure center Haus Wittringen |
Von-Wedelstaedt-Park |
City Park Bochum |
Natural Obstacle Racecourse |
Rombergpark |
Fredenbaumpark |
Hoeschpark |
Dortmund main cemetery |
Kurpark Hamm |
Maximilian Park Hamm |
City garden Hagen | Garden of the Hohenhof
Old waterworks Wesel |
Bockum waterworks |
Duisburg-Mündelheim waterworks |
Mülheim Styrum / Ost waterworks |
Mülheim-Dohne waterworks |
Essen-Kettwig waterworks |
Wolfsbachtal Essen Waterworks |
Bochum-Stiepel waterworks |
Verbund waterworks Witten |
Dorsten-Holsterhausen waterworks |
Haltern Waterworks |
Rohrmeisterei Schwerte |
Vinner water tower |
Water tower Wesel |
Rheinhausen-Bergheim water tower |
Water tower of the Lower Rhine gas and water works |
Aquarius Water Museum |
RWW Headquarters |
Mülheim-Fulerum water tower |
Water tower Essen-Condition |
Water tower Steeler Berg |
Essen-Steele water tower |
Essen-Byfang water tower |
Essen-Bredeney water tower |
Water tower Frillendorfer Höhe |
Water room Bochum-Stiepel |
Water tower Bochum-Weitmar |
Herten double water towers |
Water towers on Hellweg |
Water tower Lanstroper egg |
Bommerholz water tower |
Volmarstein-Loh water tower |
Hagen-Hohenlimburg water tower |
Blue water tower Ahlen | Water tower of the Pattberg colliery | Double cooling plant in the Duisburg-Nord landscape park | Cooling towers of the Zeche Zollverein XII |
RWW water tower |
Kaiser Wilhelm Tower | Water storage at the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum |
Water tower from Luhn & Pulvermacher / Dittmann & Neuhaus | Elevated water tank of the Henrichshütte | Cooling towers of the Hansa coking plant |
Rheinhausen-Friemersheim water tower | Water towers Railway depot and marshalling yard Duisburg-Wedau |
Hochfeld water tower | Water tower at Oberhausen main station |
Roundhouse and Camera Obscura | Water tower in the Bochum Railway Museum |
Water tower Dortmund Südbahnhof | Water tower at Dortmund depot |
Heilenbeck dam |
Ennepetalsperre |
Glörtalsperre |
Hasper dam |
Kahlenberg return pumping station |
Emscher estuary sewage treatment plant |
Alte Emscher pumping station |
Schwelgern pumping station |
Schmidthorst pumping station |
Emscher sewage park |
Läppkes Mühlenbach |
BernePark |
Bottrop sewage treatment plant |
Gelsenkirchen-Horst pumping station |
Emscherbruch |
Nettebach pumping station |
Dortmund-Deusen sewage treatment plant |
Emscherpumpwerk Huckarde |
Evinger Bach pumping station |
Emscher Bridge Lindberghstrasse |
Kaßlerfeld sewage treatment plant |
Historic sewage treatment plant Essen-Rellinghausen |
Run-of-river power plant Kahlenberg |
Raffelberg hydropower plant |
Baldeney hydropower plant |
Hohenstein hydropower plant |
Harkort power plant |
Pumped storage power plant Koepchenwerk |
Schwitten run-of-river power plant |
Wickede run-of-river power plant |
Friedrichsbad Schwelm |
Kurpark Königsborn |
Kurpark Hamm |
Raffelberg saltwater pool |
Museum of German Inland Shipping |
Ebertbad |
Friedrichsbad Essen |
Leisure center Haus Wittringen |
Parkbad South |
Volkspark outdoor pool |
Ruhrnatur House
Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 11.8 " N , 7 ° 50 ′ 13" E