Sprudelhof

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Sprudelhof
Wing of the Sprudelhof
Basin of the two hot springs in the Sprudelhof from the west
Sprudelhof with a view of the train station, in the background the chimney of the power plant
Waiting room
Schmuckhof
Debt for 2000 marks from the city of Bad Nauheim dated May 10, 1923 with a picture of the Sprudelhof

The Sprudelhof is a spa facility in Bad Nauheim , which was built between 1905 and 1911 in Art Nouveau style . Together with the drinking spa and the associated technical buildings, it is an excellent example of this style and is also one of the most successful and closed structures of this era.

Geographical location

The Sprudelhof is located on the edge of the spa gardens laid out by Heinrich Siesmayer and forms the architectural center of an axis with the Bad Nauheim train station and the Johannisberg .

history

Under the government of the art-loving Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and near the Rhine , the bathing, spa and economic facilities of the state spa were uniformly redesigned between 1901/1902 and 1912 under the direction of the architect and grand ducal building official Wilhelm Jost . The central element of these new facilities is the Sprudelhof. Several artists from the Darmstadt artists' colony contributed to the artistic design of the Nauheim bathing and spa facilities , including Albin Müller , Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens , Heinrich Jobst and Ernst Riegel . Karl Eser was the board member of the Grand Ducal Spa and Spa Administration in Bad Nauheim until his death in 1915 , and then Bruno von Boehmer was responsible for the operation of the facility until 1931 (finally as Spa and Spa Director and Head of the Civil Engineering Department) . After the state health spa, which was previously responsible for the Sprudelhof, was dissolved in 2005, the management of the property was transferred to the Hessian real estate management. In 2009 ownership was transferred to the “Sprudelhof Foundation”, one third of which is borne by the State of Hesse, the district of Wetterau and the city of Bad Nauheim.

Today only a few bath cells are used for their original purpose, one of the earlier bath houses is operated as a cabaret by the Alte Feuerwache theater .

investment

The large building complex includes the central spring, from which Bad Nauheim's medicinal water gushes, as well as two administration buildings and six bathing houses. The bubble version with its two basins was created by the sculptor Heinrich Jobst. The sculptures at the large hot tub were renewed in 1978. The Sprudelhof houses a total of 264 bathrooms, including luxuriously equipped “royal baths”. With its richly decorated bathhouses, lavishly ornamented waiting rooms and decorative courtyards, it is one of the most impressive examples of German Art Nouveau. Ornamental courtyards and waiting rooms of the six bathhouses were individually designed with numerous artistic details. The ornamentation of the fountains, the figures and decorations refer to the water as a health-giving force. The hundreds of stained glass windows are particularly impressive . In Badehaus 3 there are mosaics of the Royal Bavarian Court Mosaic and Art Institute in the round waiting room .

The bathtubs were supplied with healing water from the springs through a complicated underground system of pipes and storage tanks that worked mechanically by using pressure and gradient without pumps. The water could be individually adjusted to the needs of the spa guests by mixing and heat exchangers. The used bath linen was brought by carts from the Sprudelhof through Bahnhofsallee to the central steam laundry behind the station.

literature

  • Britta Spranger: Art Nouveau in Bad Nauheim. The new buildings of the bathing and spa facilities and their architect Wilhelm Jost. (= Sources and research on Hessian history , Volume 48.) Darmstadt / Marburg 1983, ISBN 3-88443-136-6 . / as a new edition: Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-88443-410-9 .
  • Hiltrud AM Hölzinger, Christina Uslular-Thiele: Art Nouveau in Bad Nauheim. Königstein im Taunus 2005, ISBN 3-7845-7100-X .

Web links

Commons : Sprudelhof Bad Nauheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prussian Ministry of Public Works (ed.): "Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung", Volume 35, Ernst and Korn, 1915, p. 74
  2. ↑ Sprudelhof since 2009 property of the foundation of the same name ( memento from June 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Hiltrud AM Hölzinger, Ch. Uslular-Thiele: Art Nouveau in Bad Nauheim . Ed .: City of Bad Nauheim. Karl Robert Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 2005, ISBN 3-7845-7100-X .

Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 2.3 ″  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 37.3 ″  E