Levner Bädle

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Levner Bädle
Levner Bädle

The Levner Bädle (also "Levner Bad" or Bad Levis / Lefis, 455  m above sea level ) was a spa (now a residential building) in Levis , Feldkirch municipality in ( Vorarlberg , Austria ) and is located in the "Bädle" plot next to the Levner pond. The “Levner Bädle” building is a listed building.

history

The beginning of the bathing operation in Levner Bädle is not known. The property was bought on April 30, 1628 by Paul Furtenbach (died 1634) from Andreas Welthin and his wife Ottilia Hauggin for 330 guilders Feldkirch currency. The sellers were obliged to remove the existing bath hut including the sulfur fountain at their own expense. The bath was still operated.

In the 18th century a new building in the style of a regional country estate was built for the Furtenbach family, which is still largely preserved today.

The bath was sold again in the second half of the 19th century (Weinzierl / Ganahl) and ownership finally went to the Austrian Federal Railways , which put the building and part of the property up for sale in 2014.

Bathing and healing spring

The healing spring was a cold sulfur spring that rose in the forest above the Levner Weiher. The source is said to have lost its sulfur content as a result of an earthquake.

In Eduard Jos Koch's treatise from 1843: “ A treatise on mineral springs in a general scientific context and description of all baths and wells known in the Austrian monarchy ”, the bath is only briefly mentioned along with other sulfur springs in Feldkirch. In Mineral Springs Vorarlberg by Josef Zehenter, 1895, the bath or the sulfur spring is also only mentioned, but not discussed in detail.

Geography / topography

The Levner Bädle is located in the street "Beim Levner Weiher" and has the house number 9. It is located on the southeast border of the municipality of Feldkirch, about 200 m from the municipality boundary of Göfis and about 1.2 km as the crow flies from Feldkirch city center and about 30 km from Lake Constance . In Levner Bädle there are official apartments of the Austrian Federal Railways and it is today directly on the Lindau – Bludenz railway line at Feldkirch station .

Behind the Levner Bädle (parcel “Bädle”) is the parcel “Badwald”, which is directly adjacent to the municipality boundary with Göfis.

literature

  • Werner Vogt: Old health spas in Vorarlberg a journey through the Vorarlberg bathing landscape. Verlag Benvenuti, Feldkirch 2001, ISBN 3-901522-07-7 .
  • Christoph Vallaster: Small Vorarlberg spa book. Book Spezial Verlag, Dornbirn 1984, ISBN 3-900496-03-3 .
  • Josef Zehenter, Mineralquellen Vorarlberg , Innsbruck 1895, Online Vorarlberger Landesmuseum .

Web links

Commons : Levis (Feldkirch)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ObjectID: 88005.
  2. Werner Vogt in Alte Heilbäder in Vorarlberg a journey through the Vorarlberg bathing landscape , p. 124 mentions a purchase price of 930 guilders.
  3. ^ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 101.
  4. Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 102.
  5. The parcel "Brunnenwald" is located about 150 m away at about 510  m above sea level. A.
  6. Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 102; Josef Zehenter, Mineralquellen Vorarlbergs , 1895, p. 164 f.
  7. Vienna 1843, Pichler, Volume 1, p. 179 f.
  8. p. 150.

Coordinates: 47 ° 14 ′ 40.6 ″  N , 9 ° 36 ′ 42.6 ″  E