Leopoldsbad

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Leopoldsbad

The Leopoldsbad (formerly Heiligenkreuzerbad ) is a former bath in the Lower Austrian spa town of Baden . Today it houses the tourist information office. The building is a historical monument.

history

The bath was first called the Heiligenkreuzerbad in 1662 . It was always an economic problem child: a cold water vein constantly lowered the temperature, and impurities reduced its water quality, which was temporarily presented as hazardous to health before its version in the 19th century. When the Heiligenkreuz rule ended in 1811 , the city of Baden was able to build the bath through an association in 1812. His plans are sometimes attributed to Joseph Kornhäusel . In 1828 a new technology for a steam, shower, rain and drip bath was installed, but it quickly became outdated. In 1873 the hotel and spa company took over the Leopoldsbad, in 1883 it was taken back by the city, renovated (the turret added in 1812 was removed) and made accessible again in 1884. Some of them later stayed in a poor bath for days . The sulphurous water had a temperature of only 24 ° C. Because of this comparatively low temperature and the associated lower entrance fee, the bathing establishment was used by poorer visitors. The name itself was now Leopoldsbad in memory of Saint Leopold , founder of Heiligenkreuz. In 1908 the spring was plumbed up to the dolomite base , in 1909 a new version of the spring took place (without any particular improvement), in 1915 the Leopoldsbad became a military bath, in the interwar period it was a cheap public bath twice a week. Since about 1925 it was only used irregularly, in 1939 it was closed, from 1946 temporarily, from 1952 finally left as a bottling plant to the leaseholder of the Peregriniquelle that feeds the bath and overhauled for mineral water operation in 1972/73. In 1975 the Leopoldsquelle (for external use) was recaptured.

From 1988 the house stood empty or housed a flea market , from 1995 the spa and spa management, later the Tourist Information Baden .

construction

The classicist single-storey nine-axis structure is roofed with hips and its edges are grooved . The triangular gable of the three-axis central portico rests on Ionic columns . In the shallow central risalit , the arched portal is flanked by large arched windows. While the reviving antiquity
is also presented in the column-supported gable , the facade structure of the flanks with the rectangular fields comes from the motif area of ​​the 18th century, which survived here well into the 19th century.

Web links

Commons : Leopoldsbad, Baden, Lower Austria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Viktor Wallner : Houses, people and stories - a Baden anecdotal walk. Ed .: Society of Friends of Baden. Baden 2002, p. 107 ff .
  2. ^ Family Drescher: Forays in and around Baden - taking into account a lot of historical data . Ed .: Kurt Drescher. Drescher, Baden 1982, p. 131 .
  3. ^ Family Drescher: Forays in and around Baden - taking into account a lot of historical data . Ed .: Kurt Drescher. Drescher, Baden 1982, p. 59 .
  4. ↑ Peter Aichinger-Rosenberger, Evelyn Benesch, Kurt Bleicher, Sibylle Grün, Renate Holzschuh-Hofer, Wolfgang Huber, Herbert Karner, Katharina Packpfeifer, Anna Piuk, Gabriele Russwurm-Biró, Otmar Rychlik, Agnes Szendey, Franz Peter Wanek (editing). Christian Benedik, Christa Farka, Ulrike Knall-Brskovsky, Johann Kräftner , Markus Kristan, Johannes-Wolfgang Neugebauer , Marianne Pollak, Margareta Vyoral-Tschapka, Ronald Woldron (contributions): Dehio-Handbuch. The art monuments of Austria . Lower Austria south of the Danube. Ed .: Federal Monuments Office. Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-364-X , p. 177 .
  5. ↑ Johann Kräftner (Ed.): In the shadow of the Weilburg. Bathing in Biedermeier. An exhibition by the municipality of Baden in Frauenbad from September 23, 1988 to January 31, 1989 . Grasl, Baden 1988, ISBN 3-85098-186-X , p. 78 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 28.6 ″  N , 16 ° 13 ′ 50.6 ″  E