Andelsbuch steel baths

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The Andelsbuch steel baths (formerly also: "Bad zum Fahl" and "Bad Gfall", 610  m above sea level ) was originally a spa and inn in Andelsbuch in Vorarlberg ( Austria ).

history

The mineral spring of the Stahlbad in Andelsbuch has been used since the early Middle Ages and this spa developed into one of the most important in Vorarlberg, although it lost its attractiveness at the beginning of the 20th century. An exact dating of the beginning of the bathing business in Andelsbuch is not possible.

From records of the municipality of Andelsbuch around 1764 it can be concluded that bathing was still going on. In 1835, Josef Feuerstein received the bathing fair and in 1836 built a massive bath house with seventeen guest rooms instead of the previous wooden bath huts. Born in Dornbirn-Kehlen , surgeon Michael Lecher (1802-1853) worked from 1846 at the Andelsbuch steel baths. In 1849, in view of the threat of bankruptcy, he signed the bath over to his wife, but it was auctioned off in 1850 and Maria Beer bought the bath.

On June 6, 1854, a “poor house foundation” was established by twelve people from Andelsbuch, who acquired the Badhaus am Fahl from Maria Beer from Andelsbuch. The poor house foundation existed parallel to the bath and did not interfere with the bathing operations, for this purpose a new bath house with “drinking hall” was built.

In 1864 the “Zum Bad” inn was built by Franz Xaver Mätzler from Andelsbuch and managed by his wife Maria Bilgeri ( commonly known as “Badmari”, † 1893).

Pastor Kneipp's visit to this bath is documented in 1890 , as the community doctor Michael König (1829–1899) combined the bath and its medicinal properties with the use of Kneipp water.

In 1882 and 1895 ownership passed on in the family by way of inheritance. On June 29, 1900, the Bad Gasthof was sold to Jodok Thüringer (also written as Düringer ) and his wife Maria Katharina (née Pfanner, commonly known as Fahlerbäsle) for 16,000 crowns . As early as 1901, the inn was leased to a Baron Freiherr von Coreth, who in turn left him in 1903. On March 6, 1903, the master watchmaker Josef Ritter (1854–1914) bought the inn and its property and lived in it with his family. His second wife Johanna (née Kirchebner) inherited the inn on October 19, 1917 and a foreclosure auction took place in 1918. The new owner for 20,000 crowns on January 17, 1919 was the Sparkasse der Gemeinde Egg , which it sold on March 24, 1919 to Anna Katharina Mätzler (née Hiller, † August 31, 1932), who initiated urgently needed renovations and the spa business reopened.

The daughter of Anna Katharina Mätzler and the businessman Josef Mätzler († 1898), Maria Gabriela (* 1898), entered the order of the Sisters of Mercy in Innsbruck on September 14, 1924 (Sister Anselma) and on April 14, 1925, the The previous inn "Bad" was sold to the Sisters of Mercy in Innsbruck, and renovation work began and the name was changed to Marienheim .

In 1925, the steel bath in Andelsbuch was rebuilt by the architect Alfons Fritz at a new location a few hundred meters away from the previous one.

Bathing and healing spring

The acratic healing spring is a cold iron spring (so-called steel bath), similar to the healing spring in Bad Reuthe in Reuthe . or Bad Diezlings in Hörbranz . In 1871, 148 domestic and 24 foreign bathers visited the bath.

A spa treatment in the steel bath lasted about 3 weeks in the 19th century, in which 21 baths were taken. A bath cost 30 kreuzers for strangers and 25 kreuzers for locals.

In the Andelsbucher Weiler Pfister there was also a small bath with a healing spring, which was run by Johann Konrad Fontain.

Geography / topography

The steel bath is about 300 m as the crow flies from the center of Andelsbuch village.

literature

  • Werner Vogt: Old health spas in Vorarlberg a journey through the Vorarlberg bathing landscape. Verlag Benvenuti, Feldkirch 2001, ISBN 3-901522-07-7 .
  • Christoph Vallaster: Small Vorarlberg spa book. Book Spezial Verlag, Dornbirn 1984, ISBN 3-900496-03-3 .
  • Josef Zehenter, Mineralquellen Vorarlberg , Innsbruck 1895, Online Vorarlberger Landesmuseum .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leo Metzler: " Chronik Marienheim Andelsbuch ", p. 1.
  2. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 37 ff; Leo Metzler: " Chronicle Marienheim Andelsbuch ", p. 2.
  3. ↑ His son, Konrad Zacharias Lecher (1829–1905), studied Innsbruck and Munich and went to Vienna, where he was a member of the local council and a. a. worked as a journalist and was a co-founder of the Vienna journalists and writers' association "Concordia" (now: Concordia Press Club ). His son Ernst Lecher (born June 1, 1856 in Vienna ; † July 19, 1926 in Vienna) was a well-known Austrian physicist who is considered the founder of measurement technology in the high-frequency range. Michael Lecher's granddaughter was Emma Lecher, wife of Adolf Lorenz and mother of Konrad Lorenz , one of his great-grandsons the architect Alfons Fritz .
  4. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 37.
  5. ↑ The foundation was abolished in 1939 and re-established in 1948.
  6. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 37.
  7. ↑ The father of Maria Katharina Mätzler was the merchant Peter Bilgeri, Mayor of Andelsbuch 1861-1863.
  8. ↑ Maria Katharina was previously a maid in the bathroom under the direction of Badmari.
  9. ↑ From 1877 he was also deputy guild master in the craft guild in Andelsbuch (Andelsbuch craft association : Andelsbuch craft and trade association 1791-1991 , p. 9.)
  10. ↑ Anna Katharina Mätzler previously ran a guest house in Andelsbuch - Pension Mätzler .
  11. ↑ Eduard Jos Koch in “ Treatise on mineral springs in general scientific relation and description of all baths and wells known in the Austrian monarchy ”, Vienna 1843, Pichler, Volume 1, p. 180; and O. Wigand, “ Archiv der Heilkunde ”, 1876, Volume 17, p. 108; Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 37; Josef Zötl, Johann Goldbrunner, " The mineral and healing waters of Austria : Geological foundations and trace elements ", p. 115 f Google Books
  12. ↑ See: Statistical yearbook for the year 1871 of the KK Statistischen Central-Commission, Vienna 1873, p. 563, Google Books .
  13. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 38.
  14. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 139.

Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '49 "  N , 9 ° 53' 57.4"  E