Quellenhof (Bad Wildbad)
The Quellenhof at Kuranlagenallee 2 in Bad Wildbad is a former hotel and is now a neurological rehabilitation center belonging to the facilities of the Sana Clinics .
history
The Hotel "Bellevue"
The Quellenhof was built as the "Hotel Bellevue" (or "Belle vue") on the initiative of the Württemberg treasurer Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Graf von Dillen (1807–1888), who had his estates near Wildbad. Dillen, who was the only son of General Carl Ludwig Emanuel von Dillen who inherited his property in 1841, acquired a three- acre property at the southern end of the village in the immediate vicinity of the royal facilities, the Enz and, above all, the Wildbad bathing facilities, and reassigned the order 1840 G. Pfeilsticker with the planning. On the part of the state, a wrought - iron footbridge covered with a sheet metal roof , which could be protected with canvas walls against the weather and draft, was built over the Enz, which was supposed to give hotel guests direct access to the bathrooms.
The first guests moved in on June 1, 1840, and two years later the house was described as “best” in an English-language travel guide. Another three years later August Lewald complained about the flood of foreigners that had broken into the Black Forest: “[...] after we had to leave our most beautiful spots, flooded by strangers, to them. There is already a Hotel Bellevue, a restaurant, a Librairie in our Wildbad, and we hear more English and French than German in the beautiful old avenue on the Enz. How immodest are these strangers! […] They don't even want to learn our language […] ”Despite such resentment, the influx of foreigners continued; in the 1860s an English church was finally built.
In 1861, C. Burckhardt described the hotel "Bellevue", which at that time still belonged to the Count von Dillen, as one of the most beautiful inns in Wildbad in his book Der Curort Wildbad in the Kingdom of Württemberg . In Burckhardt's time, the hotel offered 120 guest rooms. In the meantime, however, the house had developed some competition; also in 1861 it was named by Theodor Fontane in an alleged correspondence from London only as the third house on the square after the "Badhotel" and the "Bären". As before, however, the house was particularly popular with foreign guests: “After these two hotels, at the top is the charmingly located, extremely comfortable and elegant Hotel Bellevue, mostly frequented by the English, which the Empress Mother of Russia rents for the same when IM is present several times has been."
The English Church built around 1865
The “Bären” hotel belonged to the Klumpp family.
On the left a part of the "Quellenhof", on the right the former König-Karls-Bad
The Badhotel with its bathing facilities (on the right in the picture) developed into competition.
In 1911 the hotel was called "Klumpps Hotel Bellevue".
The "Quellenhof"
In 1906 the Klumpp hotelier family, who were already running the “Bären”, bought the “Bellevue” hotel from the Count von Dillen's son-in-law for 400,000 gold marks . The house was raised, the old hall was demolished and a new south wing was built instead. A connection to the König-Karls-Bad was also established. The “Bellevue” hotel became “Klumpp's Quellenhof”. In 1941 the hotel, like other holdings of the Klumpp family, became state property. During the Second World War the house served as a hospital, after which it was confiscated by the French occupying forces and used for four years. After the restoration, Carl lattice, who had already leased the "Quellenhof" in Klumpp's time and had managed it since 1925, leased it from the state of Baden-Württemberg . In 1961 the house was modernized and received a new hotel lobby.
At the beginning of the 1970s, spa director Kurt Baumgartner pushed ahead with plans to nationalize the "Quellenhof" as a spa facility. The leaseholder of the hotel at the time, Albin grid, who was more interested in connecting the hotel with the bathing facilities in the König-Karls-Bad, finally gave up in 1974. The insurance sanatorium should then be converted back into a spa hotel by the Starke family of restaurateurs, but this failed. In 1989 the "Quellenhof" was closed. The first investment projects were not implemented. At the beginning of the 1990s, Josef Wund from Friedrichshafen bought the former hotel. Then the redesign to the rehabilitation center could begin, whereby the external shape of the house was preserved as far as possible.
The “Quellenhof” specialist clinic offers 130 beds. She has specialized in diseases such as post-polio syndrome and multiple sclerosis .
The attachment
In Count Dillen's time, the area in front of the hotel was separated from the public promenade with potted plants and turned into a garden with a fish basin and fountain, which was later to be built over with other hotel facilities. Behind the main building was a terrace with a kitchen garden and greenhouse over an ice pit lined with granite, as well as two courtyards and ancillary buildings and facilities. Covered corridors connected the hotel wing, the restaurant and the back building.
The hotel building had a portico with two driveways, behind which the vestibule formed the entrance to the stairwell and the corridors. The rooms on the facade side were separated from the direct access through the corridor by rooms that received their light from the corridor and were intended to keep the noise out. The ground floor rooms could each be occupied individually, but could also be put together in enfilades to form entire suites, whereby the corner rooms on the facade side, which were equipped with balconies, could be used as salons. The premises were heated with porcelain stoves; the toilets had an "English facility with water reservoirs". The caretaker had his apartment on the garden side of the first floor.
The same room layout was to be found on the first floor, with a lounge with a balcony in the middle of this floor; above there was another floor with guest rooms; under the roof there were equipment and domestics chambers. The hotel comprised a total of 67 salons and guest rooms.
The restaurant building was connected to the hotel wing through one of the covered corridors. This led first into an anteroom, in the corners of which there were ceiling-high cupboards for the silverware and other utensils, and then into the dining room, which could hold 200 people. In front of the dining room there was a terrace that could be protected from the elements. At the rear of the restaurant wing, a two-story wing with utility rooms and additional guest rooms was added.
The back building, which also housed the laundry and bakery, wooden lanes, etc., offered space for around 20 touring carriages and 30 horses. Above there were accommodations for less well-off guests.
The base of the hotel was made of ashlars made of local red sandstone , into which rosette-clad air openings were integrated to make the ground floor rooms dry, comfortable and healthy. The remaining outer walls were bricked, plastered in the natural color of lean lime and decorated with red sandstone elements as well as stucco elements and a frieze under the eaves. All railings were cast by Benkieser in Pforzheim .
The floors of the corridors, the vestibule and the stairwell were covered with white and red sandstone slabs. The inner walls were constructed in timber frame construction and lined with fired bricks. The rooms should first be painted; However, as the bathing and spa season was approaching and the hotel was to be used quickly, it was decided instead to use satin wallpapers in light tones with golden bars and borders. The ceilings were painted in matching tones and provided with delicate decorative lines. The mirrors and trumeaus received golden frames, the furniture black horsehair cushions , the floorboards and the oak stairs with cherry wood fittings were varnished.
The dining room had a purple wallpaper with gold decorations in the Renaissance style . Since the facility was on the slope above the Enz Valley, extensive and expensive blasting had to be carried out to build it. For this, however, it was possible to build up directly on the natural granite floor in places and the granite chunks that had accrued were used for the dry stone walls of the terraces.
In 1861, Johann Philipp Glökler described how the needs of the spa guests were catered for: “The bathroom music plays here once a week […] A porter employed for the house is the intermediary between the residents of his 120 rooms and the outside world. And how well care is taken for the suffering comers! There are covered wheelchairs. In these they are gently led to and from the bath. These chairs, a kind of sedan chair on wheels, are an indispensable piece of furniture that other landlords have also bought in order to bring the sick to the bath so gently with strong hands. "
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the von Dillen family .
- ↑ It was probably Gottlieb Friedrich Daniel Pfeilsticker (1811–1866).
- ↑ The drafts are now in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives .
- ^ G. Pfeilsticker, Hôtel Belle vue in the Wildbad in Württemberg , in: Allgemeine Bauzeitung Wien 7, 1842, pp. 62–65.
- ↑ Murrays Handbook for Travelers in Southern Germany , London 1843, p. 20.
- ^ August Lewald's collected writings. In a selection , Volume 11, Leipzig 1846, p. 288.
- ↑ C. Burckhardt, The Curort Wildbad in the Kingdom of Württemberg. A monographic sketch with a plan of the baths, the city and a map of the surroundings , Wildbad and Stuttgart 1861, p. 7.
- ↑ Heide Streiter-Buscher (ed.), Theodor Fontane , Unechte Korrespondenzen , De Gruyter 2001, ISBN 978-3110140767 , p. 145.
- ↑ Pefri-Wildbad: history of the house .
- ↑ Sana-Kliniken ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ^ G. Pfeilsticker, Hôtel Belle vue in the Wildbad in Würtemberg , in: Allgemeine Bauzeitung Wien 7, 1842, p. 63.
- ^ G. Pfeilsticker, Hôtel Belle vue in the Wildbad in Würtemberg , in: Allgemeine Bauzeitung Wien 7, 1842, pp. 62–65.
- ^ Johann Philipp Glökler, Land und Menschen Württembergs , Volume 1, Stuttgart 1861, p. 161 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 55 ″ N , 8 ° 33 ′ 0.1 ″ E