Luitpoldbad (Bad Kissingen)

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Luitpoldbad (north view with casino)
Casino around 1900 before the side wing of the Luitpoldbad was added
The Luitpoldbad around 1910 after it was increased (southwest view)
Luitpoldbad (southwest view) with colored lead glass arched windows
Luitpoldbad (south view) with underpass for the moor delivery

The Luitpoldbad in the Bavarian state bath Bad Kissingen was the largest bathhouse in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century . Today the listed building houses the Bad Kissinger casino and several authorities.

history

The Luitpoldbad, the former Actien-Bad-Etablissement , the construction of which had already been approved in 1855, was built at the instigation of District Administrator and Bath Commissioner (Kurdirektor) Joseph von Parseval in the years 1868 to 1871 as a single-storey, north-facing three-wing complex with corner and central pavilions initially with 120 bathing cabins in the 120,000 square meter Luitpoldpark ( spa park ) on the Franconian Saale built according to plans by Munich architect Professor Albert Geul (1828–1898) in the neo-Renaissance style. With his application, he had met “the requirements of the Kissingen health resort with bathing establishments with restoration locations” specified by a jury headed by Gottfried Semper . The long sides of the building are 100 meters long, the broad sides about 80 meters long.

The construction and operation of the property were financed by the “ Aktiengesellschaft des Badeetablissements in Kissingen”, as the state coffers were empty. The shareholders were citizens, especially doctors of the spa town. Were offered bottled water - and mud baths . The initially open north side was closed from 1878 to 1880 with a Kursaal, today's Luitpold Casino , according to plans by Heinrich von Hügel . In 1897 the Actienbad was sold to the Bavarian crown . Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria , a great sponsor of the royal state bath, had the two side wings added a second storey and extended to the south in the years 1902 to 1906 due to growing customer demand. Now the two side wings offered space for a total of 236 bathing cabins. In the course of this measure, twelve round arched lead glass windows in contemporary Art Nouveau style were installed in the southern corner pavilions. After this expansion was completed, the Actienbad and the surrounding spa gardens were renamed Luitpoldbad and Luitpoldpark in 1906 .

However, due to social change - larger hotels and sanatoriums now had the bathing facilities in-house at the request of the guests, so that the demand for a central bathhouse decreased - the Luitpoldbad was closed at the end of the 1970s and was then empty. The casino with an attached restaurant remained in operation. The mineral water exercise pool, which was only built in 1980 in place of the old boiler house in the inner courtyard, was also closed in 2004 and the decision was made to tear it down in 2012.

Planning for conversion / authority center

In 2002, the owner of the Free State of Bavaria (as the legal successor to the Bavarian Kingdom) was considering selling the building, which had been vacant for around 25 years, to private investors after extensive renovation , conversion and new additions in order to use the listed property in the future Modern use of the 5-star large hotel. These plans soon failed due to the necessary investment of around 40 million euros .

Seven years later, in September 2009, the Free State wanted to sell the property without the casino, a 9,600 square meter section, to private customers for 1.1 million euros. This project also failed.

Based on this and other experience that the historic building could not be sold to private investors and thus be used for contemporary private use, the Free State of Bavaria and the City of Bad Kissingen jointly made the decision in autumn 2011 to buy the property at the expense of the Free State, the unchanged owner of the building is to be extensively renovated for an estimated 21.5 million euros and used as an "authority center" in the future. The future users were the Bayer responsible for the spa operation . Staatsbad Bad Kissingen GmbH , the surveying and water management offices as well as the Bad Kissingen branch of the real estate Free State of Bavaria are planned. While maintaining this concept, the required budget was later extrapolated to 32.4 million euros.

Due to the decision of the responsible Ministry of Finance to refrain from the initially planned settlement of the water management office in Luitpoldbad, the Ministry of Finance saw the need for a new concept. On June 26, 2012, Mayor Kay Blankenburg and State Secretary Franz Josef Pschierer signed a consortium agreement, according to which the administration of the Staatsbad GmbH, the surveying office, the regional treasury and the Bad Kissingen office of the real estate management Bavaria move into the property as part of the conversion of the Luitpoldbad into an administrative center should.

At the beginning of 2013, the Würzburg architecture firm Grellmann, Kriebel, Teichmann received the contract for the renovation planning after a Europe-wide tender. The year 2013 was set for planning, the structural implementation of which should follow in 2014 and 2015. On July 4, 2013, the groundbreaking ceremony began with the demolition of the previous exercise pool. In its place, an inner courtyard was created for outdoor events.

In October 2017, the building, which was finally renovated by the Free State of Bavaria for 39 million euros, was inaugurated as an "authority center" by the Bavarian Minister of Finance and Home Affairs, Markus Söder , and provided jobs for Bayer. Staatsbad Bad Kissingen GmbH (former spa administration ), the office of the Kissinger Sommer music festival , the land surveying office , the new centralized free state finance office Bad Kissingen and an office of the state company "Immobilien Freistaat Bayern" officially opened. The newly designed inner courtyard was used as an event location for the first time in July 2018 with a concert during the Kissinger Summer .

literature

Web links

Commons : Luitpoldbad  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geologica Bavarica , issues 62–63, Bavarian Geological State Office, 1970
  2. ↑ Bavarian State Building Administration : History of the Luitpoldbad ( PDF file )
  3. ^ Peter Weidisch: Bad Kissingen, photographs around 1900 , Bad Kissingen 2008
  4. ↑ The Art Nouveau windows in Luitpold-Bad Bad Kissingen
  5. ^ Johannes Defregger: Movement Center Bad Kissingen. Construction of a new building in Luitpoldbad . In: Bau intern , 1982 pages 22-25
  6. ↑ The exercise pool is to be demolished this year , in: Main-Post from February 1, 2012
  7. ↑ Official tender of the Real Estate Free State of Bavaria from September 2009 PDF file with historical views
  8. ↑ City sets the course for an authority center in Luitpoldbad , in: Main-Post from October 7, 2011
  9. ↑ Siegfried Farkas: One problem child less , in: Main Post from July 5, 2013 [1] .
  10. ↑ Water management shies away from water , in: Main-Post from March 20, 2012
  11. ↑ Rescheduling at Luitpoldbad? , in: Main-Post from April 19, 2012
  12. ↑ More shares and a new Luitpoldbad. City and Free State sign new consortium agreement - Planned authority center takes financial coffers with it , in: Main-Post from June 26, 2012
  13. ^ "Bad Kissingen remains a state bath" - "Saale-Zeitung" article from June 26, 2012
  14. ↑ Luitpoldbad: Order goes to Würzburg architecture office , in: Main-Post from April 3, 2013 ( http://www.mainpost.de/regional/bad-kissingen/Luitpoldbad-Auftrag- geht-an-Wuerzburger-Architekturbuero ; art766, 7388708 online)
  15. ↑ The renovated Luitpoldbad in Bad Kissingen is inaugurated , BR 24 (Bayerischer Rundfunk), October 23, 2017
  16. ^ First concert in the inner courtyard of the Bad Kissinger Luitpoldbad Saale-Zeitung, July 2nd, 2018

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 '44.84 "  N , 10 ° 4' 32.84"  O