Wittekind brine bath
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The Solbad Wittekind is a spa facility in the formerly independent village of Giebichenstein in the north of Halle (Saale), which was built in 1846 and largely rebuilt between 1923 and 1925. It is listed in the register of monuments of the city of Halle under registration number 094 05130.
location
The facility is located in today's Giebichenstein district on Wittekindstrasse at the foot of the Reilsberg . To the north it borders directly on the area of the mountain zoo . The public park of Reichardts Garten is located south of the Solbad on the opposite side of the street .
history
Brine extraction was already practiced in the area around Giebichenstein in prehistoric and medieval times. Giebichenstein with the salt spring ( Givicansten cum salsugine ejus ) came into the possession of the Moritzkloster Magdeburg from 961 , the later archbishopric; then to the Neuwerk monastery founded in 1116 , which however gave up salt boiling in the 13th century; the spring was filled in.
In the year 1705 in Giebichenstein a new spring was opened up with the salt extraction and grading, which was given up again in 1711, because the salt extraction in the salt works was more economical.
More than 100 years later, in 1846, the merchant Heinrich Thiele acquired the site on which the so-called Schmohlsche Garten, an inn, had been operating since around 1820. He had the old well dug up again and, on the advice of Peter Krukenberg and Richard von Volkmann, built a brine bath , which became known far beyond its borders and was used in particular to treat skin and lung diseases.
For the spa, extensive half-timbered buildings were built in the so-called Swiss style based on a design by the architect and Prussian construction officer Friedrich August Stüler . In 1855 a glamorous society house, which still exists today, followed, which forms the western end of the ensemble. In 1876, the Villa Margarete lodging house, which also still exists, was built west of the colonnades on Wittekindstrasse.
The bath experienced its heyday from 1850 to 1880. Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the guests in 1868 . The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Stayed in the lower castle Giebichenstein in September 1857 for a banquet in the society house
The bath remained in the family ownership of the Thiele family until 1891. After the incorporation of Giebichenstein in 1900, the bath initially went to the AG Zoologischer Garten founded in 1901 ; the spa park was further reduced in size in favor of the zoo. In 1909 the city acquired the zoo and the saltwater pool from the stock corporation for a total of 1,200,000 marks . On December 30, 1913, the city finally took over the entire zoo and saltwater pool; the corporation was dissolved.
Since no fundamental repair work had been carried out for decades and a large part of the buildings was in disrepair, the city considered closing and demolishing it in 1922, but many voices were raised against this. Because the brine bath not only served as a healing and spa bath, but also for normal personal hygiene for the residents of the northern part of the city. It made a not insignificant contribution to the relief of the heavily frequented public swimming pool . Since the quality of the brine had also deteriorated, the previous borehole was deepened after several investigations and came across a brine which, with its 3% salt content, created good conditions for a revitalization of the brine bath.
A new bathhouse, an administrative building and colonnades with an integrated music pavilion were built from 1923 to 1925 according to designs by city building officer Wilhelm Jost , who had already built the city pool in 1914 .
In 1977 the bath was closed, with parts of it being used until 1992. After a long period of vacancy, the buildings were renovated from 2012 to October 2017 . In addition to a new building, the Villa Kurallee , apartments were built in the former community house, in the lodging house and in the administrator's house. The bathhouse serves as a health center with various therapy facilities. In the colonnades, which had to be demolished and rebuilt for static reasons, the day care center of the Evangelical Bartholomew Congregation found its new home.
Building description
The society house built by Stüler in 1855 was built as a representative two- to three-story plastered building in the neo-renaissance style (based on models from the Italian renaissance ).
The bathhouse from 1925 is the central building of the facility created by Wilhelm Jost. It was built in the style of baroque pleasure palaces on a U-shaped floor plan with high hipped roofs as a single-storey building, at the ends of which two two-storey front buildings form the end. The semi-oval opens up to a park. An oval central pavilion with large arched windows forms the main entrance at the apex of the U-shaped bathhouse.
In the center of the bath house is the well surround, in which a now lost brine well stood. The brine fountain and two portal figures in green ceramic at the entrance to the bathhouse, which are also no longer there today, were created by the sculptor Gustav Weidanz , who was teaching at the Burg Giebichenstein School of Applied Arts at the time .
Others
In 2015, the episode “ Zorn - Where No Light ” from the TV series Zorn was filmed in a section that has not yet been renovated .
literature
- Michael Pantenius: City Guide Halle. Gondrom Verlag, Bindlach 1995, ISBN 3-8112-0816-0 , pp. 171-172.
- Holger Brülls, Thomas Dietzsch: Architectural Guide Halle on the Saale. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01202-1 , p. 132.
- Mathias Homagk: “I have built enough.” Wilhelm Jost as town planning officer in Halle (1912–1939). (= Central German cultural history books. 25). Hasenverlag, Halle / Saale 2013, ISBN 978-3-939468-77-6 , pp. 72-78.
- Siegmar von Schultze-Galléra : Topography or history of houses and streets in the city of Halle ad Saale. Third volume: The incorporations of Giebichenstein, Trotha, Cröllwitz, Gimritz. Verlag Wilhelm Hendrichs, Halle 1920. (Reprint: Verlag Rockstuhl , Bad Langensalza 2018, ISBN 978-3-95966-305-2 , pp. 79–84)
Web links
- The track collector: Solbad Wittekind . Photos from 2010. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt / City of Halle. Fly Head Publishing, Halle 1996, ISBN 3-910147-62-3 , p. 515.
- ↑ The bathhouse in the Wittekindbad shines in its old glory: new use as a therapy center. On hallespektrum.de from October 27, 2017 . Retrieved February 11, 2019.
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 13.3 " N , 11 ° 57 ′ 48.3" E