Peiden bath

Gasthof Peiden-Bad with St. Luzius Church

Historical view up the valley: the hotel on the left, the dependance and the outbuilding in the middle

Peiden-Bad is located below the village of Peiden in the municipality of Lumnezia in the Valsertal in the canton of Graubünden .

history

Peiden-Bad became famous for the bath, known since the 13th century, which was fed by water from three mineral springs . The bathing spring and the women's spring (today the Markus spring) are close to the inn. The Luziusquelle rises around 100 meters above the Church of St. Luzius on the left side of the Glenner and was taken in 1862.

According to a document from 1563, these mineral springs belonged jointly to the villages of Camuns and Peiden , who left the bathing facility to a Caspar de Cabalzar and other tenants. In 1780 Ulysses von Salis writes that the spring only emerges in a few places with a large pouring barrel . In 1824 the iron bathing spring was taken directly behind the hotel and pumped up under the roof. There it was warmed up in huge boilers and placed in wooden bathtubs in the modest spa for bathing and spa operations.

In 1812 the springs were buried in a landslide. In 1868, when the bath was owned by Johann Bartholome Arpagaus , a flood destroyed the springs. The bath was reopened five years later. The success of this bath, which was popular in the upper society of the Belle Epoque, enabled the brothers Barclamiu and Luzi Arpagaus to convert the baths into a hotel in 1891, which is still standing today.

In 1906 a dépendance was created at the bridge over the Glenner (Romanesque: il glogn). The spa operation lasted from mid-June to the end of September. Thanks to the newly opened Valserstrasse in 1910, which led from Ilanz directly through Peiden-Bad, the business took off again. The owner Josef Vinzens-Tuor temporarily filled bottles with mineral water, sold it to guests or sold it to other interested parties as Peidner mineral and medicinal water .

After the outbreak of the First World War , the guests stayed away. The bathing operation was discontinued, but the hotel has since continued as an inn. On January 1, 1963, the plant came into the possession of the Chur Rhaetian Aktienbrauerei , which, however, did not use the springs. Around 1980 the branch and ancillary building on the right bank of the Glenner were demolished. At present (summer 2010) the company is owned by Bad Peiden AG.