Pump room (Bad Ischl)
The drinking hall is a listed former spa facility in Bad Ischl in the Salzkammergut ( Upper Austria ). It serves as an event and exhibition building.
history
The pump room was built by Franz Lössl from 1829 in the classicistic style as a brine bath and put into operation in 1831. The first bathing room, set up by the saltworks physicist Josef Goerz, had already existed in Ischl in 1823. The new building was given a handling with Corinthian columns . In the early years, the facility was called brine bath or Wirerbad after Franz Wirer , the Viennese personal physician Emperor Franz Joseph I. Wirer established Ischl's fame as a summer resort and health resort. In addition to various baths, drinking cures with whey were administered. Spa guests met in the conversation parlor. The building was expanded by two side wings between 1851 and 1853.
The building was temporarily neglected in the 20th century. In the 1960s the pump room should be demolished; eventually it was decided to preserve it. A comprehensive renovation began in 1963. In 2005, the federal state of Upper Austria, which owned the again neglected building, exchanged the drinking hall near the city of Bad Ischl for areas of the old building yard. In March 2006, the Bad Ischl council passed the "statutes for the establishment of the drinking hall as a business with market-driven activities for the municipality of Bad Ischl". He decided on a conversion and redevelopment plan, the total cost of 1.9 million euros. During the renovation in 2007, in addition to work on the interior, the original color scheme in off-white was restored; The palmettes and acanthus leaves on the pillars are gold again. The forecourt was also redesigned. The no longer existing drinking fountain is to be put up again.
use
The drinking hall is used by the Bad Ischl spa administration; it also houses the Bad Ischl tourism association. 1999 became the year of Strauss with the exhibition “Johann Strauss: What do I have to do with myself !? Shine and Darkness in the Life of the Waltz King ”. In March 2006 it served the Mayor of Bad Ischl to receive the youth ministers of the EU states at their informal meeting in Bad Ischl. As part of the Upper Austrian Provincial Exhibition in 2008, the exhibition “People, Myths, Monarchs” was shown in the pump room. It gave an impression of the importance of Bad Ischl from its heyday as the summer residence of the Austrian imperial family to the present day.
Web links
- The pump room in Bad Ischl on the side of the Austrian Federal Monuments Office
Individual evidence
- ↑ The pump room on the side of the Green Bad Ischl
- ↑ Reception of the youth ministers in the drinking hall 2006 on the website of the Federal Ministry for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection (PDF) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Upper Austrian Provincial Exhibition 2008 “People, Myths, Monarchs” in the pump room ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 47 ° 42 ′ 40.3 " N , 13 ° 37 ′ 24.3" E