Roman Baths (Baden)

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Roman bath in November 2015

The Römerbad was a hotel building in Baden in the canton of Aargau . It stood in the spa district on the banks of the Limmat and was a branch of the Grand Hotel, which existed from 1876 to 1944 . It was demolished in 2017.

history

The Römerbad was built in 1860 as an annex to an inn, which was first mentioned in 1293 as the “Schinderhof” and has been known as the “backyard” since the early 16th century. For more than five centuries it was one of the finest houses in the spa district. In 1872 the Neue Kuranstalt AG acquired the backyard and began demolishing it the following year. Only due to the fact that the planned Grand Hotel could not be fully completed due to financial difficulties, the annex building remained as its annex. The three-storey building with seven axes was built in a simple classical style. It had a baroque portal with Tuscan columns and cranked beams . In the Supraporte a coat of arms of the former owner's family Dorer was chiselled, just under a triangular pediment at the back of the building.

After the Grand Hotel went bankrupt and was blown up by the Swiss Army on August 18, 1944 , the branch under the name "Römerbad" continued to exist for the time being. In 1950 a new hotel was set up there, but it only lasted a few years. The hotel rooms were later converted into apartments and artist studios. Although the building was listed, it was gradually left to decay. After the announcement of a new building project in August 2009, the end of the Römerbad was foreseeable, as it stood on the building site of a new thermal bath designed by Mario Botta . Up until 2012, Aargau Cantonal Archeology carried out extensive excavations on the area in front of the building . The Römerbad was finally torn down on January 17, 2017.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hotel Römerbad (Baden)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Now the old baths are being torn down. Swiss Radio and Television , January 17, 2017, accessed April 20, 2017 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '53.4 "  N , 8 ° 18' 47.5"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and sixty-five thousand nine hundred and nineteen  /  259 337