Mitterbad
Mitterbad was a spa and medicinal bath near St. Pankraz in the Ulten Valley in South Tyrol that was known in the 19th and 20th centuries and is now in ruins .
location
In the vicinity of St. Pankraz, a side valley branches off from the Ulten main valley to the south in the direction of Hofmahdjoch , through which the Maraunbach flows. The Maraunbach is a tributary of the Falschauer . Mitterbad is about two kilometers from the bridge over the Falschauer, below the barrier wall of the Pankraz reservoir . It is at an altitude of about 1000 meters. The facility consists of a few buildings, the bath house, the Villa Waldruhe, the coffee house, the bowling alley, the shooting range and the listed chapel of St. Cosmas and Damian .
Source and indication
The spring belonging to Mitterbad is located in inaccessible terrain about 40 minutes' walk from Mitterbad near the geological Judiciary line, a section of the Periadriatic Seam .
According to its classification, the spring water is radioactive , sulphate , iron and moderately mineral-rich . It contains aluminum , arsenic , lithium and traces of chromium and copper . The temperature is 7.8 ° C and the conductivity 1220 µS / cm. The spring is an officially recognized mineral water spring in South Tyrol.
The water was used as a drinking cure and for baths, among other things against anemia, gynecological problems, nervous diseases, injuries, skin diseases and digestive disorders. The common people bathed in wooden tubs, the elegant customers in marble tubs.
history
The place was first mentioned in 1418 as Walcherguet in Vlten in mitern Pad . The boom as a spa began at the beginning of the 19th century. The initially undemanding wooden structure burned down and was replaced by a stone structure. Well-known personalities soon appeared among the bathers. The young Otto von Bismarck stayed here from 1840 to 1843 . At that time he was still working as an estate manager. He fell in love with the Badwirt's daughter and asked for her hand, which her father refused to accept because of the various religious affiliations.
In 1871, 1889 and 1897 the Austrian Empress Elisabeth (Sisi) was in Mitterbad, who was also succeeded by the heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand . In July 1901 Thomas Mann and his brother Heinrich traveled to Mitterbad for several weeks. The often rumored statement that the novel Buddenbrooks was completed here cannot therefore be correct, as it was completed in July 1900 . The painter Franz Defregger was also a guest in Mitterbad.
At the turn of the century, Christoph Hartung von Hartungen , who ran a year-round sanatorium in Riva on Lake Garda and from 1906 owned his Villa Hartungshausen in St. Nikolaus in Ultental, was the spa doctor in summer, to whom the business was limited .
After the bathroom was sold in 1919, owners changed frequently and the bathroom lost its shine. It was operated until 1971, most recently by the Sisters of Mercy. Since then it has been empty and decayed.
Chapel of Cosmas and Damian
In 1840 an existing chapel was replaced by a larger one. In 1989 this was placed under monument protection.
Web links
- Mitterbad on ultental-valdultino.com
- St. Pankraz, Mitterbad on tell.at
- Current view
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Where Bismarck went swimming , Die Zeit 06/1997, ZEIT ONLINE
- ↑ State Agency for the Environment
- ↑ St. Pankraz, Mitterbad on tell.at
- ↑ Gert Heine, Paul Schommer: Thomas Mann Chronik , Klostermann 2004, ISBN 978-3-465-03235-9 , p. 25 ( digital )
- ↑ Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
Coordinates: 46 ° 33 '15.8 " N , 11 ° 3' 59.4" E