Animal bath
Tierbad was a hamlet of Welzheim that was devastated in the Thirty Years War . Tierbad quickly became known for its medicinal bath.
geography
The animal bath was east of the Lein near Tannhof in the Welzheimer forest.
history
Church and chapel
A chapel dedicated to St. Wolfgang was located at Tierbad. Around the year 1487, Schenk Albert von Limpurg is said to have had a stone church built "in honore St. Wolfgangi" in place of a wooden and not consecrated chapel - the consecration should take place without any disadvantages for the church of Welzheim. According to the Lorch Monastery register from 1576, the pastor of Welzheim obtained his hay and small tithes from the animal bath. If one correctly interprets the other silence of the Lorch tradition, this church is to be regarded as a branch of Welzheim, this also applies to the George Chapel, which is said to have stood "still in 1581" near the manor house in the animal bath. According to the inventory book from 1576, Tierbad with Schafhof, Gausmannsweiler, Eckardsweiler, Seiboldsweiler, Michelau, Eberhardsweiler, Aichstrut, Cronhütte, Schadberg and Meuschlesmühle did not give church owners, but other taxes such as big tenth, small tenth and hay tenth.
Zoo
A field name "Tiergarten", which was documented in 1489 and gave the zoo its name, suggests both an older Brühl from the Carolingian era and a complex from the Hohenstaufen era. Like the own church, the zoo also stands for the stately quality of the place
Limpurg
In 1564 it was under Limpurgian property with blades, running, upper and lower mills. It was very complicated who belonged to whom, because in Welzheim and the surrounding area the Limpurgian, Württemberg, Lorchian and Adelbergian were strongly intertwined. In 1441 the inns structured their territory through offices. Welzheim, which belonged to the Limpurg-Gaildorf line, was the seat of a bailiff. The earliest known Welzheimer Vogt by name was Hans Häßlin in 1491. The animal bath was also part of the Welzheim office.
Lorch
In 1811, Breitenfürst became the official place under the Lorch Oberamt. Breitenfürst was the official place of "Birkighof, Haaghof, Hagmühl, Haselhof, Haldenhof, Metzelhof, Schenkhöfle, Schmidhöfle, Thann, Thierbad
Spa
The property had been bought in 1487 and 1489 by the Limpurg taverns, who first had it managed themselves and then granted it as an inheritance in 1546, initially to Hans Linsenmayer, who had to pay an annual validity of six guilders. The bath experienced its greatest heyday from the beginning of the 16th century to the Thirty Years' War. In 1619 the owner bought large quantities of wood. The bathing regulations of the inheritance from Karl zu Limpurg of 1627 require that bath guests should provide themselves with firewood as best they can, but the owner of the animal bath often had to bring his own firewood. In addition, he needed wood to fire his kitchen, from which he also took care of his house guests, as well as to heat his dwelling and the guest rooms. Not just the bars that had a manor house built there with its own bathroom, whose "boiler should always wait for the rulership and not be used by the thierbader." frequented it. In 1520, over 2,700 baths are said to have been used. The diseases that the sulfur, saltpeter alum and copper-containing water hoped to alleviate were wide-ranging: drowsiness, dizziness and ringing in the ears were just as much a part of them as digestive problems, skin diseases or infertility. In 1619 and 1628 the Schorndorf physician Dr. Johannes Remmelin two writings about the animal bath, which give an idea of the spa treatments of the time: (continued under "Tourism")
Thirty Years' War
17 farms were desolate, collapsed or burned, as were the animal baths, the upper mill and the blade mill. Reasons for this were: starved, murdered, died of the plague , expelled.
population
Population development
- 1539: "a court with 5 communicants" (recipients of the Lord's Supper, i.e. adults)
- 1711: 7 inhabitants
- 1804: 12 inhabitants
tourism
The animal bath mentioned by Waltz also had far more than just local significance. The water from a rock was fed into three walled-in boilers in the bath house to be heated. The kettles were fired from the outside, "so that no smoke would be troublesome for the bath guests. If someone does not want to bathe with his handicrafts or tubs at all, there is a separate place in the bathhouse ... in which one can take his bath cure at will from then immediately to the guest house in his room and apartment ... can go. The inn was "nice and airy and bright" and inside a "clock set so that the Badgäßte should shorten the time and their bath treatment should behave according to the same". The guests could "comfortably comforted rooms and chambers with prepared beds ...". Anyone who "did not think about taking Speyß cooked by the ... host" could cook in the "wide and sweet cake". In addition, it was possible "as much as possible from the landlord than to others who sell it there, including good wine, of all kinds of victuals and food, in order to obtain a right and proper reputation".
literature
- Order of the city of Welzheim: Welzheim - from Roman camp to modern city . Ed .: Sönke Lorenz and Andreas Schmauder. tape 11 . Markstein Verlag, Welzheim 2002, ISBN 3-935129-05-X , p. 352 .