Rogner Bad Blumau
The Rogner Bad Blumau is a thermal bath and hotel in Bad Blumau in the Eastern Styrian hill country in the thermal and volcanic region of Styria . It is part of the Rogner International Hotels & Resorts chain .
The hotel and thermal complex was designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser , the planning was carried out by architect Peter Pelikan . The specialty of the complex are the wooded roofs, organic shapes, colorful facades and golden domes as well as the around 330 colorful columns and more than 2400 windows, none of which are the same as the other.
history
Medicinal water instead of oil
As early as the 1970s, Rohöl-Aufsuchungs AG (RAG) was drilling for crude oil and natural gas in the region around Bad Blumau . Instead of oil and gas, water at 100 ° C was found at a depth of almost 3000 meters . The hole was then closed again. Encouraged by the general tourist development in the region, the community turned to Robert Rogner a few years later, especially the then community secretary Karl Semmler . He checked the location and, with the approval of the Styrian state government , let the source flow again. In fact, hot, eruptive healing water was found , the quality of which exceeded expectations. Robert Rogner planned bathing facilities to use the healing water and a holiday village was to be created in two construction stages.
Medicinal water and Hundertwasser
The holiday village in Bad Blumau had already been planned down to the last detail when, on January 15, 1992, Robert Rogner met the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser in Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna and persuaded him to work together. In 1993, the construction of a spa began on a 40 hectare site that Rogner had bought from 25 farmers. Four years later, on May 10, 1997, the Rogner Bad Blumau was opened.
Electricity from geothermal energy
In order to implement the concept of closeness to nature, the hotel has had a geothermal power plant since August 2001 . With a system from Ormat Technologies , 180 kW of electricity is generated from the Vulkania healing spring, a 110 degree hot, highly mineralized water that is pumped from a depth of 2,843 meters. After generating electricity, the water is still 85 degrees. This is enough to heat the entire system at Rogner Bad Blumau even when the outside temperature is minus 20 degrees. Converted, this corresponds to an energy saving of around 6,800 liters of heating oil per day in the cold season. This has the same climate protection effect as around 2,700 fewer cars on the road each year.
Geomantic path
Another implementation of the closeness to nature is the geomantic path, which was created by the stone artist and “earth healer” Marko Pogačnik, taking into account his esoteric considerations . In his opinion, Rogner Bad Blumau stands on an area known as “sensitive terrain”, to which a large number of “power focal points” with “natural intelligence” is ascribed. For this purpose, selected places with “centers of vital energy” were artistically designed using 19 “lithopuncture stones” and converted into a directed path, which in turn is effective in promoting the facility. The “energies of the area” were made recognizable and comprehensible for the visitor of the path through appropriately shaped sculptures and thus conveyed for the healing of the user.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.blumau.com/wasser-quelle-heilquelle-vulkania-melchior-thermalwasser-therme-pools.html
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ IGATEC: ORC system ( Memento from October 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Description of the individual geomantic power points ( memento of the original from October 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 2.53 MB)
Coordinates: 47 ° 7 '27.6 " N , 16 ° 2' 47.5" E