Brave knight
The Courageous Knight is a listed spa and conference hotel in Bad Kösen , which arose from an old post station on Via Regia in the immediate vicinity of the Saale crossing at the Kösener gate .
history
The original inn was set up in 1680 on the northern part of the building complex of a former grangie of the Cistercian monks of Pforta, owned by the Pforta state school and used as a sheep farm since the Reformation , on the right bank of the Saale as a break for carters. This first inn burned down completely in 1710, but was rebuilt a little later. As early as 1730, the mountain ridge Johann Gottfried Borlach sank the first borehole in the garden of the Inn Courageous Knight, which opened up the salt deposits of Kosen. From 1744 Borlach began to build the saltworks in Kösen, and the Brave Knight first came into the ownership of the Kösen saltworks. Around 1832 the inn was sold to Johann Samuel Weber, whose son rebuilt the inn in 1845. In 1875 a new horse stable and another residential building were added that adjoined the Romanesque House.
It was not until the Prussian period after the Congress of Vienna that Kösen began to develop into a saltwater pool from 1815 and the Courageous Knight thus developed into the first house on the square in which the more prominent spa guests took accommodation. In addition to the brine, Kösen and its nearby Saale castles, Rudelsburg and Saaleck Castle also became attractive as a romantic excursion destination and meeting point for corps students from the nearby universities of Jena, Leipzig and Halle from 1820 onwards . The first of more informal meeting of the three senior convents of these universities were from 1848 eponymous for the Friedrich von Klinggräff initiated Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV) and brought together in him Corps , which here henceforth its annual meetings in the days before Pentecost held .
The increasing popularity of Kosen made several expansions necessary in the second half of the 19th century, with which the brave knight among the innkeepers of the owner family Hermann Weber senior. and his son of the same name has been expanded from a country inn to a spa and conference hotel. The development was also promoted by the fact that Kosen received a railway stop on the then supra-regionally important railway line of the Thuringian Railway through the Saale valley and was therefore easy to reach for the conditions at the time.
In 1911, the KSCV had provided a sum of 40,000 marks , which enabled a further structural expansion of the Brave Knight for his conference purposes. The 1912 Congress took place in Naumburg because of the renovation work. During the First World War , the hall and the lodging house burned down again on the night of June 21, 1916. After the war in 1921, the reconstruction was co-financed by the Corps students through an allocation. By granting the loan, the association secured the use of the hall for its annual congresses. The right of use was secured in the land register as an easement for the association. With the banning of the corps by the National Socialists in 1935, there were no more Kösen congresses in Bad Kösen until after German reunification. The Brave Knight became a military hospital for the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War and continued to serve as such until 1947 after Thuringia was taken over by the Red Army. Then, after a renovation in 1947, the Courageous Knight became a hotel again and in 1949 became the property of the people in the legal ownership of the city of Bad Kösen. This expanded the hotel into a spa hotel and finally handed it over in 1953 as the Ernst-Thälmann-Sanatorium to the legal sponsorship of the social security of the GDR . This managed the house until the end of the GDR. Shortly after reunification, the sanatorium became the Courageous Knight again, albeit as a rehabilitation clinic until 1998. The Association of Old Corps Students held a first workshop in 1991 in the Hall of the Brave Knight. In 1994 the first Kösener congress since 1935 took place again in the historical conference center of the KSCV. Since 1998 the house has been available again as a spa and conference hotel. However, the hotel business got into economic difficulties and so the complex was acquired by Kösener Spielzeug Vertriebs GmbH in 2006. The Kösener toys were to be produced on the area of the Brave Knight. Together with the new hotel, ballroom, factory outlet and other attractions, the "Kösener Toys Adventure World" was to be created. Due to a lack of funding, the "Erlebniswelt" project could not be implemented at the time. The funding was approved in 2010 and the renovation could start. In 2011, shortly before the opening of the adventure world, an arsonist set a wing of the hotel on fire. The construction time delayed the opening again.
In November 2013, the "Kösener Toys Adventure World" opened in the building complex with a "Transparent Production". The "Ritterklause" restaurant is also located in the attached hotel.
Known guests
- Theodor Fontane on August 18, 1867
- the writer Gustav Freytag
- Sven Hedin
- the poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
- King Charles XII. of Sweden on September 25, 1706
- the composer Franz Liszt gave soirees and concerts in the Courageous Knight
- The death of Emperor Friedrich III. In the three emperor year of 1888 , Max Liebermann , who was staying in Bad Kösen , arranged a fictitious memorial service for Emperor Friedrich III. To paint in Bad Kösen , he also made a study of the Buchenhalle near Kösen. Furthermore, numerous shepherd scenes were created during his visits in 1888 and 1890 .
- During his stay the painter Adolph von Menzel painted the bathing children in Kösen and the mission service in the Buchenhalle near Kösen (1868)
- the historian Theodor Mommsen
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Hamburg art collector Gustav Schiefler was inspired by Edvard Munch on a visit on September 7, 1906 in the brave knight to Reinhardt -Fries with summer beach scenes show that was intended for the new chamber Games in Berlin.
- Alexander von Siebold on April 27, 1898
- Postmaster General Heinrich von Stephan
literature
- Friedrich Hoppe : Old Kösener restaurants. In: Bad Kösen. Homeland historical images. Bad Kösen 1930, pp. 128–130.
- Rudolf Neugebauer: The “Kösener” and their “Courageous Knight”. In: then and now. (= Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research ). 46, 2001, pp. 185-194. ISSN 0420-8870 .
- Reinhard Schmitt: The Romanesque House in Bad Kösen was an important monastic economic building from the high Middle Ages. A contribution to history and building history. ed. from the Museum of the City of Bad Kösen. Bad Kösen 2008, DNB 992087694 .
Web links
- Gerhard Daniel: Save the brave knight. In: CORPS issue 3 (2003)
- Website of the "Brave Knight"
- Article on the opening of the "Courageous Knight" in the Naumburger Tageblatt
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Hafenbrack: History of the Evangelical Press Service. 2004, p. 110.
- ↑ Journal entry. In: Helmuth Nürnberger (Ed.): Theodor Fontane: Works, writings and letters. Part 3, Volume 3, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-446-12397-0 , p. 897.
- ↑ Sven Hedin: A people in arms. Leipzig 1915.
- ↑ Leo Woerl (ed.): Illustrated guide through Bad-Kösen. 5th edition. Leipzig 1914, p. 14.
- ↑ Today in the National Gallery, London.
- ↑ On the road from Kösen to Rudelsburg, used as an open-air church in the second half of the 19th century.
- ^ Example at Christies with reference to a corresponding oil painting in New York private ownership
- ^ In the Szépművészeti Múzeum Budapest
- ↑ Ulf Heise: "Oh, there is also Mr. Nietzsche": Leipzig years of becoming a philosopher. 2000, ISBN 3-930076-94-2 , p. 65.
- ↑ Vera Schmidt (ed.): Alexander Freiherr von Siebold, diaries. Volume 1 (= publications of the East Asia Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum. Volume 33). Wiesbaden 1999, p. 913.
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 10 ″ N , 11 ° 43 ′ 19 ″ E