Otto Kychenthal

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Otto Friedrich Gottlieb Kychenthal (born June 4, 1777 in Schwerin ; † October 15, 1841 in Ribnitz ) was a German pharmacist, entrepreneur and tax collector.

Life

Kychenthal was the son of the land rent master in Schwerin Otto Christian Kychenthal and his wife Sophie Charlotte born. from Bülow .

He learned the profession of pharmacist and opened his pharmacy in Goldberg (Mecklenburg) in 1806 . Around 1806 he founded a pharmaceutical reading society with a pharmacist from Harburg . In 1816 he, meanwhile also a senator in the Magistrate of Goldberg , sold the pharmacy in order to build a brandy distillery in house no. 51, today's Lange Str. 103, in Goldberg . During test drilling for the drinking water required for this purpose on his newly purchased property, including the Glödenkoppel, he came across an iron-containing mineral water spring at house number 50 , which colored the planks black . He immediately carried out the plan to quietly build a warm bath here . But instead of brandy, Kychenthal was to earn his living with well water for a few years.

The bath was opened in 1817 and had 150 bathers. In 1818 over 245 bathers are said to have gathered. In the first few years, 200 to 300 bathers came. At the end of July 1821 there were 90 baths a day, even in the afternoon. Kychenthal received 6,000 thalers interest-free from the state with the obligation to give 200 baths to poor sick people. The following persons are entered in the reference list of the Stahlbad Goldberg in Mecklenburg from 1912: EL Graf von der Osten-Sacken from Bellin , CWH von Meding from Suckwitz , Friederike Countess von Blücher from Fincken , the court postmaster Erhard from Ludwigslust, lawyer and city judge Stampe from Plau , court pharmacist Georg Ferdinand Vogler from Ludwigslust , Louis Baron le Fort from Wendhof . From July 11 to August 3, 1822, Duke Karl August Christian of Mecklenburg-Schwerin even bathed in Goldberg.

The healing properties of the mineral water led to Goldberg's rise as a bathing resort in Mecklenburg during the first half of the 19th century and to a doubling of the population after 1816. Many houses were given a second floor, localities with overnight stays were added and new buildings were added from 1830 to 1840 , so on Jungfernstrasse, Wallstrasse and Mühlenstrasse. As Goldberger Gesundbrunnen. Excellent table water of the first rank was successfully offered by the health resort.

In 1822 Kychenthal was appointed Grand Ducal Gesundbrunn director. However, his sanatorium in Goldberg was also in clear competition with the Doberan , which was aspiring to the Baltic Sea resort and which also had a so-called steel bath . Kychenthal had taken over financially and went bankrupt in 1824. Dr. Bornemann did not, together with the pharmacist Bösefleisch and the Landdrost Drechsler he bought the steel bath. After a thorough renovation, the spa business could be resumed in the summer of 1828.

In 1838 the mineral bath went to the innkeeper Wilhelm Greffrath in Goldberg, who improved the lodging house, the bath house with its facilities and the horse stable. In 1844 another garden was laid out based on the English model. The house at Lange Straße 103, used as a hotel with a restaurant and cinema, has been vacant for years, in the courtyard there is still the vacant lodging house and further to the west there are some linden trees from the former park.

With the medical supervision of the spa and its source, the Goldberger Sanitätsrat Dr. Johann Friedrich Christian Bornemann (1791–1868), which continued until the end of the 19th century. Bornemann became director and co-owner of the mineral bath in Goldberg in 1828.

In 1829 Kychenthal was initially taken care of as economic manager and property manager of the Sachsenberg insane asylum near Schwerin, which was opened in 1830 under its director Carl Friedrich Flemming , and from 1836 he was appointed to the Grand Ducal tax collector in Ribnitz, where he also died.

He was married to Emeline there. Burwitz; Their marriage resulted in a son Otto (* 1821).

Fonts

  • Announcement about the mineral spring in Goldberg , Goldberg 1820
  • Following the notification of the progress and performance of the Gesundbrunnen zu Goldberg , Goldberg 1821

literature

  • Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voight: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 19th year, second part (1841), Weimar 1843, p. 1369
  • E. Duge: Documentary news about Goldberg and the surrounding area. Gadebusch 1883, pp. 193–194.
  • Albert Becker: News about the steel bath at Goldberg in Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Andreae, 1862 ( digitized )
  • Horst Prignitz: The steel bath of the pharmacist Kychenthal. Goldberger cures for the little man. Mecklenburg - Magazin February 4, 1994, No. 3, p. 10.
  • Julius Sponholz: The mineral bath in Goldberg. In: Festschrift for the anniversary of the city of Goldberg 1248–1998. Goldberg 1998, pp. 72-73.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5594 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. was initially building inspector, 1767 court cashier, since 19 Aug. 1769 rent master, since 1775 land rent master. He lived in Ludwigslust, since 1774 in Schwerin; † August 20, 1785. Monumenta Germaniae paedagogica 45 (1909), p. 341, note 3
  2. ↑ Jacob Friedrich Joachim Bülow: Historical, genetic and critical description of the noble, baron and counts of the von Bülow family with copper and many documents , Christian Gottlob Korb, Neubrandenburg 1780, p. 203
  3. ^ Basic plan of the city of Goldberg and of the gardens insofar as they do not belong to the field corridor. In 1836 specially measured and drawn by HC Stüdemann, Cammer engineer.
  4. ↑ E. Duge: Documentary news about Goldberg and the surrounding area. 1883, p. 193
  5. ^ Julius Sponholz: The mineral bath in Goldberg. 1998, p. 72.
  6. ^ A. Becker: News about the steel bath at Goldberg in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. 1862, p. 19.
  7. ↑ Status after on-site inspection on September 8, 2015.
  8. ^ Georg Dehio : The former idiot institute in Schwerin . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Munich, Berlin ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 551.
  9. ^ New necrology of the Germans (lit.)
personal data
SURNAME Kychenthal, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kychenthal, Otto Friedrich Gottlieb (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist, entrepreneur and tax collector
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1841
Place of death Ribnitz