Lincke's bath

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Lincke'sches Bad around 1825 with a view over the Elbe to Anton Castle , etching by Johann Friedrich Wizani

The Lincke'sche Bad was an excursion restaurant with a garden restaurant , summer theater and concert hall in Dresden . It was also one of the first outdoor pools.

The Dresden court theater and well-known artists such as Joseph Seconda , the composers Christian Gottlob Neefe and Carl Maria von Weber as well as the architect Bernhard Hempel worked there. Franz Grillparzer described the theater during a visit in 1826 and E. T. A. Hoffmann used the setting for his play The Golden Pot . The bathroom was also a popular motif for postcards and engravings, for example by Ludwig Richter .

location

Lincke'sches Bad in the city map of Dresden from 1828

The bath was built at the mouth of the Prießnitz behind the Black Gate and was connected to the Neustadt by an avenue, at that time with the address Schillerstraße 29. The property is now between the deaconess hospital and building Bautzner Straße 82 in the Radeberger Vorstadt district . In the 1950s, pergolas and raised beds were created in the northwest corner from salvaged sandstone blocks, and it was not until the mid-2010s that the site was provided with a sports field, a running track, a changing room and a parking lot.

history

Drachenschänke, postcard 1914

In 1734, behind the Black Gate, a summer house was built directly on the Elbe, which in 1753 received the concession to serve beer and wine ("Drachenschänke") as well as for baking, slaughtering and keeping a forge. After the doctor Peter Ambrosius Lehmann had received the approval to set up a mineral bath, he had an open-air bath with bathing house built there in 1763, which in 1824 offered 28 tubs and summer quarters and was operated until 1860. In 1764 Christian Gottlob Reuss established a garden restaurant there. In 1766, Carl Christian Lincke acquired the area and expanded it into a place for excursions by building a summer theater on it in 1775. Lincke benefited from the 20 year tax exemption. In 1776 a new "Commödien Hauß" was created, which offered excellent conditions for the music theater and singspiels that appeared in the summer, and later also operas, which closed the gap that the electoral theaters could not serve. A large concert hall built by Bernhard Hempel followed in 1853, but it burned down in 1859. The theater building was also demolished a year earlier. In 1867 it reopened as the "Grand Théâtre des Varietés". In 1901 there was an elegant wine restaurant, a tunnel tavern, a hall and a concert garden and numerous verandas, which were known collectively as the "restoration garden", which existed at least until the 1920s and which is reported to have 15,000 seats in 1911. During the air raids on Dresden towards the end of the Second World War, the area was largely destroyed. Only the "Drachenschänke" was preserved, which was used as a restaurant until a few years ago, but now houses apartments.

Performances

Theater on the bath near Dresden, copper engraving from 1837

The weekly performances of the Dresden court theater in the Lincke'schen Bad and the garden concerts were famous and well attended. The announcements for this were made in the " Dresdner Anzeiger " and in the " Dresdner Nachrichten ". Numerous famous personalities took part in the performances, including the acting troupe around Joseph Seconda (engaged here between 1790 and 1816), the singers and actors of the Residenztheater as well as Carl Maria von Weber and E. T. A. Hoffmann as conductors. The theater was also the site of several first performances, including Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , but also works by Christoph Willibald Gluck , Ludwig van Beethoven and Carl Maria von Weber. On April 30, 1866 the eve of the inauguration of the new building of the Cross School at Dresden Georg place in the hall of the bath is the "dramatic bite: Sleeping Beauty" was first performed, one of the cross pupils Hermann Unbescheid (later teacher and Prof. Dr.) written and Singspiel set to music by Johannes Gelbke . On the evening of the consecration day, May 1, 1866, the performance was repeated in the presence of the king and the Saxon princes.

reception

Franz Grillparzer attended a concert in 1826 and stated: “Afternoon in the Linkesches Bade. Nice place. Big concert for a penny deposit. Incidentally, less bad than the price suggested. The women all with knitting in hand. The people look very good-natured, but boring. No beautiful girl yet, hardly seen a few pretty girls. I think the Dresden women are born at the age of 30, so far I have hardly seen any young ones. " The bathroom also found its way into literature: In addition to numerous contemporary travel guides, ETA Hoffmann also mentions the bathroom in one of his stories:

“ When the student almost reached the end of the avenue that leads to the Linkischer Bade, he almost ran out of breath. He was compelled to walk more slowly; but he hardly dared to look up, for he could still see the apples and cakes dancing around him, and every friendly look from this or that girl was only the reflection of the gleeful laughter at the Black Gate. So he got to the entrance of the Linkisches Bad; one row after the other, dressed in festive clothes, entered. Music from wind instruments rang out from inside, and the crowd of cheerful guests grew louder and louder. The tears almost came to the eyes of the poor student Anselmus, because since Ascension Day has always been a special family celebration for him, he too had partaken of the bliss of the Linkischer Paradies, yes he had up to half a portion of coffee with rum and want to have a Bouteille of double beer, and in order to be able to really slouch, pocket more money than was actually allowed and feasible. "

- ETA Hoffmann : The golden pot .

literature

Web links

Commons : Lincke'sches Bad  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden, 1866, p. 160.
  2. ↑ Helas, p. 196 (Hempel, Bernhard)
  3. ^ Dresden-Lexikon.de: Lincke'sches Bad
  4. ↑ Nickel, p. 87 (Popular Dresden places of entertainment)

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 47.2 "  N , 13 ° 45 ′ 50.2"  E