Salt bath

Salzerbad is a place (village) in the municipality of Kleinzell ( Lower Austria ) including the spa of the same name near the Halbachtal . The natural brine spring , which is the basis of the spa business, was probably already known in Roman times and has been used for salt production since the 17th century.

history

The natural brine spring, which is one of the few natural brine deposits in Austria , has been used since the 17th century. In a brewhouse was salt boiled . Franz Vorauer acquired the old “Salzerhaus” near Kleinzell in 1859 and in 1861 had a balneological report on the water drawn up. After Vorauer's death, Maria Rösner acquired the property and the adjacent salt spring meadow in 1886. Her husband Carl Rösner , City Builder of Vienna (building office: Zimmermanngasse 10, until 1905 Währing ), designed and expanded the manor into the Salzerbad spa , where since 1887 various cures , but also sun, sand and air baths and therapeutic gymnastics under medical supervision were offered.

On July 13, 1889, an Imperial and Royal Post Office was opened in Salzerbad, which took care of the post during the annual spa months May – October on the Leobersdorfer Bahn , which was reached by messenger journeys . (Delivery services to: Hotel, Kurhaus, surrounding 14 villas; telegraph service from July 30, 1889).

After financial difficulties, with edict of October 1, 1894, the reality " Salt Bath ", estimated at 421,028 guilders , was publicly offered for sale and acquired at the last auction date on February 9, 1895 from the Királyfalva landowner Dionys Tihanyi de Ebeczk (Ebeck / Obeckov ), who on On July 3, 1895, his family moved into the Salzervilla and he held the sanatorium until the end of 1897: With an edict of December 19, 1897, the Salzerbad property , now valued at 158,803 guilders, was designated for public sale for two dates at the beginning of 1898 and came in April of the year to a Viennese owner who, after renovation work, opened the course season on May 15, 1898 (with a 20% discount for civil servants and the military).

In the summer of 1900, the installation of acetylene gas lighting was considered for the health resort of Salzerbad .

On July 30, 1900, at the instigation of the Sparkasse Steyr, the auction of Gut Salzerbad (spa house, bath house, hotel) took place. From 1901 Salzerbad applied as a summer resort , from 1905 as a cold water sanatorium and was under the economic and medical direction of Josef Rudnik, community doctor of Kleinzell. In June 1906, the Salzerbad, still owned by Sparkasse Steyr, was exchanged for two properties in Vienna ( Hillerstrasse  6 and 8, Vienna-Leopoldstadt ).

After further changes of ownership, a notable spa establishment could no longer be established. The First World War meant the temporary end and in Salzerbad mainly French prisoners of war were interned. After the war, the buildings were sold to the Evangelical Association for Inner Mission . In 1920 the evangelical association opened a rest home to which mainly children and young people were sent to relax.

The current spa and recreation center was only built in 1986 and the spa hotel Salzerbad has been a house of Dr. Dr. Wagner Gesundheit & Pflege GmbH, in which patients with rheumatism , respiratory and stomach diseases are treated. Today Salzerbad is a recognized Kneipp spa .

A local sulphate-containing spring brine is used balneologically . The recognition as a healing spring in 1936 was renewed on January 1st, 2015.

traffic

• In July 1895 there was a plan to develop Kleinzell (Salzerbad) with a local railway projected from Eichgraben ( Rekawinkel ) to Hainfeld .
• In February 1899 a preliminary concession was granted for the construction of a lower-level railway going from Hainfeld to Salzerbad, Kleinzell and possibly beyond.
• In June 1900, test traffic with automobiles was started for the connection between Hainfeld and Salzerbad.

literature

• The “Salzerbad Kleinzell” spa resort near Hainfeld, Lower Austria. In:  Wiener Vorstadt-Presse , No. 489/1887 (XIV. Year), December 15, 1887, p. 8, bottom. (Online at ANNO ). .
• René Jaquemar: Salzerbad - a Protestant recreation center in Austria - 1920 to 1930 . Evangelical Central Association for Inner Mission in Austria, 1930
• 50 years of Salzerbad . (Festschrift). Evangelical Association for Inner Mission in Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland, Salzerbad Committee, Vienna 1970, OBV .
• Paul Slezak (Red.): Austrian spa and health resort book. Official information and reference work . Bohmann, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7002-0421-3 .

Web links

• Website of the Salzerbad (German)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Slezak: Austrian spa and health resort book. P. 31.
2. ↑ Helmuth Barnick: Through the Gutenstein Alps to Göller. The east end of the Northern Limestone Alps. In: Yearbook of the Austrian Alpine Club. Volume 89.1964, ZDB -ID 201035-5 , p. 102.
3. ↑ Josef Ottokar von Buschman: The salt, its occurrence and utilization in all countries of the world . Volume 1: Europe . Engelmann, Leipzig 1909, OBV , p. 217;
   Slezak: Austrian spa and health resort book. P. 39.
4. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) New post office. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 152/1889, July 5, 1889, p. 5, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). .
5. ↑ Salt bath. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 31/1898 (XIXth year), April 22, 1899, p. 2 (f.) Below. (Online at ANNO ). .
6. ↑ Licensing. (...) Reality in small cells. In:  Wiener Abendpost. Supplement to Wiener Zeitung , No. 246/1894, October 25, 1894, p. 601, column 3 center. (Online at ANNO ). .
7. ^ Salzerbad health resort. In:  Pester Lloyd , No. 93/1895 (XLII. Volume), April 18, 1895, p. 8 (unpaginated), bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). .
8. ↑ Daily news. (...) From baths and summer retreats. (...) One writes to us from Salzerbad: (...). In:  Pester Lloyd , No. 168/1895 (XLII. Volume), July 14, 1895, p. 4 (unpaginated), column 4 above. (Online at ANNO ). .
9. ↑ Licensing. (...) Salzerbad property. In:  Official Journal of the Wiener Zeitung , No. 294/1897, December 22, 1897, p. 919, column 1 below. (Online at ANNO ). .
10. ↑ Licensing. (...) Gut Salzerbad. In:  Official Journal of the Wiener Zeitung , No. 138/1900, June 19, 1900, p. 808, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). .
11. ↑ The loan fraud. In:  Wiener Monday Journal. Before (as) extra post. Impartial Monday newspaper , No. 1277/1906 (XXV. Year), July 30, 1906, p. 3 middle. (Online at ANNO ). .
12. ↑ Oskar Dohle (ed.), Thomas Mitterecker (ed.): Salzburg in the First World War: Far away from the front - nevertheless at war . Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-205-79578-0 , p. 155.
13. ↑ 50 years of Salzerbad .
14. ↑ wirtschaftsblatt.at: Salzerbad brings Russians and Japanese to the cure ( memento of December 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 22, 2014.
15. ↑ Österreichischer Heilbäder- und Kurorteverband: Cooking salt water and brine , accessed on December 23, 2014.
16. ^ Hermann Weber: Eaux Minérales et Stations Climatériques de L'Europe . Steinheil, Paris 1899, archive.org . (Reprint 2013. London, p. 214).
17. ↑ Lower Austria: Provincial Law Gazette LGBl. 7600 / 7-9, recognition of medicinal springs
18. ↑ Trade, Industry, Transport and Agriculture. (...) preliminary concessions. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 164/1895, July 17, 1895, p. 16, center. (Online at ANNO ). .