Lázně Jeleč
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 Czech Republic
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| Region : | Ústecký kraj | ||||
| District : | Litoměřice | ||||
| Municipality : | Levin | ||||
| Geographic location : | 50 ° 37 ' N , 14 ° 17' E | ||||
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Lázně Jeleč (German Bad Geltschberg , also Geltschbad ) was a spa in Bohemia. It is located northeast of the Geltschberg above Horní Vysoké, a district of Levín to which it also belongs.
history
The origins of the Geltsch baths go back to the beginning of the 19th century, when the Lewin pharmacist Franz Kittel, a relative of the North Bohemian Faustus Dr. Kittel , built two bathing cabins in his little house in a side valley of the Haberbach (Černý potok).
In 1839, the Liebeschitz doctor Johann Mayer von Lindenthal bought the house and the adjacent land and built a cold-water sanatorium there in the middle of the forest, 300 m above Oberwessig (Horní Vysoké). The inauguration of the bath took place in 1840, which was Geltschbad so after the Silesian Gräfenberg . In 1841 an extension took place, the hall house on Kaiserstraße with reading room, play room, dining room and course room was built.
In 1864 Dr. Mayer von Lindenthal and his widow continued to run the institution. During the Austro-Prussian War in 1866 Prussian troops were quartered in the Geltschbad and the Kursaal was converted into a hospital for the wounded. In 1873 Ms. Mayer von Lindenthal sold the complex to her sister Susanna, who, together with her husband, the retired Councilor Julius Ritter von Kromer, expanded the spa business.
In addition to the previous "cold bath", another bathhouse, the "warm bath", was built and the range of treatments expanded to include spruce and pine needle baths as well as steam, moor and electric baths. The offer also included whey cures , inhalations, gymnastics and massages. The wealth of mineral springs soon led to the establishment of drinking pavilions . Thanks to its water cures and the idyllic location in the shelter of the Geltschberg, the bath soon became well known as a health resort for nerve, spinal cord and brain disorders. The ring, milk, beech and cold fountains provided water at a temperature of 9 ° C.
With the Großpriesen-Wernstadt-Auscha local railway , which opened in 1890 and ran through the Haberbach Valley, spa guests could also travel by train. The iron spring was soon taken, and the water containing carbonic acid and iron oxide was used to cure anemia. In 1892 Ritter von Kromer died and the bath came into the possession of the Haas family. A spa park was created around the bathing facilities, which stretched along the stream and merged into the coniferous forests of the Geltschberg.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the character of Bad Geltschberg, which belonged to Oberwessig, changed to a physical and dietetic sanatorium, in which the tried and tested cold water cures and drinking cures with slightly radioactive water were still administered, and to a convalescent home.
During the First World War, Italian officers were housed in the Geltschbad. After the end of the war, the spa business was resumed, but the number of guests was well below that of the pre-war period. After the Second World War, the bathroom died and was forgotten.
Today the Lázně Jeleč complex is used as a children's rest home.