Front bath laterns

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The Vorderbad Laterns , "in the Wies" (also: Anteriori balnei laternsii or Vorderes Laternserbad, about 790  m above sea level ) was a spa in Laterns ( Vorarlberg , Austria ) in the parcel "Bädle / Vorderbad" near the Frutz (at about 12.30 kilometers of water).

history

The beginning of the bathing operation in the front bath is not known. The water was praised by the historian, physician and astrologer Achilles Pirminius Gasser (also Gasserus; 1505–1577) in 1558 for its medicinal properties. On May 27, 1642, bailiff Christoph Moritz von Altmannshausen, the lift master Johann Christoph von der Haldenegg and court clerk Johann Wilhelm Mariuss the "Badmeister im Vorder Laterns", Johann Gaßner, reaffirmed the bath justice , as the earlier documents had been lost . The right to purchase wood for heating the bath water was renewed at the same time and it was stipulated that the bath had to pay an annual interest of four pounds of wax to the parish church on the Liebfrauenberg in Rankweil and 23 Schilling Pfennig to the Hubamt.

In 1685 the Bishop of Chur , Ulrich de Mont , gave Johannes Zimmermann permission to set up a chapel in the Vorderlaterns bath , in which mass could be read on a portable house altar (altare portatile) during the bathing season (see Ulrich Geser altar ) . The requirement for Johannes Zimmermann and his successors was that the altar, chalice and vestments are always treated properly. In 1707 the bathroom master Florinus Matt, in 1737 Christian Kock and 1804 Josef Weiß renewed this license.

The owner of the Vorderbad, Johann Adam Nesensohn, was negotiated on May 7, 1816 at the Feldkich Regional Court because, according to the plaintiff, the municipality, he was illegally chopping wood and selling it at a profit. The bathing business was completely stopped in the course of the 19th century and the baths were sold in 1902.

Bathing and healing spring

The healing spring was a weak, cold sulfur spring, probably similar to the one in Bad Haslach in Dornbirn. The bath was of greatest importance in the 17th century.

In the bathing area, those seeking salvation were brought into contact with the water in wooden tubs . Masses could be read in the private chapel in the Vorderbad. In 1841 the Vorderbad was still in use as a spa, but was then closed at an unknown point in time. In Mineral Springs Vorarlberg by Josef Zehenter, 1895, the Voderbad is already mentioned as no longer in operation.

In Eduard Jos Koch's treatise from 1843: “ A treatise on mineral springs in general scientific terms and a description of all baths and health fountains known in the Austrian monarchy ”, the front bath was not mentioned.

Geography / topography

While the settlements in Laternsertal are consistently on the sunny side of the valley, the front bath was built on the shady side (left side of the Frutz). For a long time, the bath was only accessible via a bad road and a primitive footbridge over the Frutz, until a real bridge was built in 1698, which, however, was torn away again in 1726 in a storm.

The Vorderbad was about 750 m as the crow flies from the village center of Laterns, 9 km from Feldkirch and 33 km from Lake Constance , roughly in the middle of the Laternsertal . The Frutz flows north about 100 m away. Of the bathhouse itself, only the foundation walls are largely preserved today.

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 .

Web links

Commons : Laterns  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 93.
  2. ↑ According to an unproven statement in 1880.
  3. ^ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 94.
  4. ↑ Mineral sources of Vorarlberg by Josef Zehenter, 1895, p. 178.
  5. ^ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 94.
  6. ↑ page 178.
  7. ↑ Vienna 1843, Pichler, Volume 1, p. 179 f.
  8. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 93 f.

Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ′ 35.8 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 25.8"  E