Mingolsheim sulfur bath

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The Mingolsheim sulfur bath was founded and operated in the municipality of Mingolsheim , a district of today's municipality of Bad Schönborn .

history

In 1905 Otto Sebastian Weick called a source of sulfur in the garden of the family's 20 room villa. In the diary of his son Franz Weickgenannt it says: “ Mixed with great force and foul-smelling gas, the water shot out of the borehole, so that the drillers were able to save themselves with great effort from the broad upper well shaft. One had never seen such a rush of water here. An eerie chuckle accompanied the approximately 3 meter high water jet, and the escaping gases polluted the whole area. "

In the years that followed, this Villa Weick-called was expanded into a bathing establishment for spa guests, which initiated the existing spa in Mingolsheim. In addition to his son Franz Weickgenannt, the nephew of Otto Sebastian Weickgenannt, the theology student Richard Weickgenannt, supported him in the further expansion of the sulfur bath. “In 1920 Richard helped him to found the Schwefelbad Mingolsheim GmbH and also assisted him with the sale to the Caritas Association in 1922. He continued to support him in the legal proceedings against an impostor who pretended to be Caritas rector and in doing so claimed the contractually agreed purchase price from the Caritas Association or various Catholic institutions and bishops (sic). However, it has not yet been paid. "

The area formerly comprising the Mingolsheim sulfur baths, including the sulfur spring, was incorporated into the Sankt Rochus clinics in Bad Schönborn . After 50 years of sponsorship by the Episcopal See in Speyer, the sponsorship was again transferred to a Caritas institution in 2005, the CTS Caritas sponsorship Saarbrücken.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Steck: The health resort . In: Klaus Gaßner (Hrsg.): Bad Schönborner history - The chronicle of the reunited villages Mingolsheim and Langenbrücken, Vol. 2: From the Grand Duchy of Baden to the municipal merger 1971. Volume 2 , ISBN 978-3-89735-861-4 , pp. 128 f .
  2. ↑ After the sulfur bath, one hour of bed rest | Bad Schönborn community. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Historical tour of Mingolsheim. (PDF) Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
  4. ^ Nussbaum Medien (ed.): Richard Weickgenannt from Bad Schönborn played an essential role in the beatification process of Father Franz Reinisch . No. 50 . Nussbaum Medien, December 14, 2017, p. 11 .
  5. ^ History. Retrieved on October 23, 2018 (German).

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 13.2 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 59.9 ″  E