Warmbad (Selva)

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Warm bath
City of Selva
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 57 ″  N , 13 ° 4 ′ 56 ″  E
Height : 450 m above sea level NN
Residents : 346  (May 9, 2011)
Postal code : 09429
Area code : 037369
Warmbad (Saxony)
Warm bath

Location of Warmbad in Saxony

Warmbad is a district of the Saxon town of Selva in the Ore Mountains . Warmbad is a state-approved health resort in the Free State of Saxony with the status of a spa . Here is the oldest and warmest thermal spring in Saxony.

geography

Geographical location and traffic

Warmbad is located about 1.5 kilometers northeast of Selva in the Ore Mountains . The place is located in the valley of the Hilmersdorfer Bach, which joins the Gehringswalder Bach to the southwest of the village at the Hüttengrundmühle and flows northwest to the Zschopau .
The district road 8150 Großolbersdorf – Gehringswalde leads through the locality, with the latter being connected to the federal road 101 Annaberg-Buchholz - Freiberg . Warmbad is connected to Hilmersdorf in the northeast via a local road.
The "Warmbad" stop of the Zschopautalbahn is about 3 kilometers to the west in the neighboring village of Floßplatz an der Zschopau.

  • Warmbad stop (2016)

  • Warmbad stop, view towards Annaberg-Buchholz (2016)

  • Warmbad stop, view towards Flöha (2016)

Neighboring places

Hopfgarten Grünau Hilmersdorf
Raft place Neighboring communities
Selva Gehringswalde

history

Warmbad based on a representation by Matthäus Merian from 1650
Warmbad in a book by August Hauptmann from 1657
Knappschaftsklinik
Silber-Therme
Place pyramid

Around 1385 a warm spring was discovered during mining activities (ore prospecting). In 1484 it was first mentioned as Warmbate zu Wulkenstein, from the warm bath . The place belonged to rule or later to the office of Wolkenstein .

Until 1542 the bath was in stately ownership - at the beginning in that of Waldenburg, later in the state -, afterwards it was privately owned, which was followed by expansion and increasing use. In 1554 it was acquired by the mountain jury Paul Hauschka. In 1656 it was taken over by the body medic August Hauptmann , who later published the text Uralter Wolkensteinischer Warm Bad- und Wasserschatz , and the bailiff Heinrich Schrey. In 1671, Princess Magdalena Sibylla von Sachsen-Weißenfels used the bath for a cure. For this a new bath house was built, which Elector Johann Georg III. inaugurated and gave him the name "at the grace of God", which lasted only a relatively short time. In 1791 the spring was recaptured, cleaned and the water examined. A pavilion was also built in honor of the Saxon Queen Marie Amalie Auguste , who stayed here for cure in 1791/92. The spring water was fed to this pavilion via a tunnel . In 1794 the Grünhain bailiff Christian August Gottschald took over the facilities. In 1810, the Großrückerswalde Erbrichter Johann Christoph Uhlig came into their possession and bequeathed them to his son, who made improvements for the guests according to the requirements and the frequentation.

In earlier times, the spring water was lifted by means of artificial tools , which were driven by a grinding and cutting mill above the Hilmersdorfer Bach.
The spring was placed under protection in 1660 by a decree by Elector Johann Georg II . Under the name Medicinal-Trunk , beer was brewed with the spring water from 1661 to 1872, and a distillery was also part of the facilities for a time. From 1831 onwards, doctors looked after the spa guests and bathers. In the period that followed, further guest houses were built in Warmbad, and from 1880 a visitor's tax was payable.

With the construction of the Zschopautalbahn in 1889, Warmbad received a rail connection with the “Floßplatz” stop. In 1904 this was given the name “Floßplatz-Warmbad”, and since 1960 the station name has been “Warmbad”.

In 1903 its own power station was built, which was in operation until 1920. A central sewerage system was built in 1914. In 1924 an outdoor pool was opened that was fed with thermal water. In 1926 the city of Selva bought the bath in order to keep it open to the public.

Between 1997 and 2002 the entire spa infrastructure was modernized or rebuilt, and in 1997 a rehabilitation clinic of the Federal Miners' Union was inaugurated. The Silber-Therme is available for day guests.

Since December 1997, Warmbad, as the first designated health resort in Saxony, had been designated as a “place with mineral springs”. In September 2016, Warmbad was awarded the status of a spa by the Free State of Saxony - after approval by the Saxon State Advisory Council for Health Resorts and Recreation Centers .

Development of the population

year population
1551 1 man possessed , 2 residents
1764 1 man possessed, 1 ¼ hooves
1875 16

additional

A chapel is said to have existed between Warmbad and Gehringswalde, which is said to have been built during the development of the warm spring.
August Schumann mentions this in the State Lexicon of Saxony in 1826:

“At some distance from the spring, a Chapel of Mary was built very early on, and it was just as far from the city as, according to the pilgrims' reports, Jesus had to walk from Pilate's house to Golgotha. This church stood at the height between the Bade and Geringswalde, was handsome, vaulted, and endowed with 7 additional parish villages; One always used to hear mass there before bathing; There were several inns at the same, and traces of it and the cellars that flowed there are still visible. "

literature

  • The warm bath. In: New Saxon Church Gallery, Ephorie Marienberg. Strauch Verlag, Leipzig, Sp. 756–762. ( Digitized version )
  • From the Wolckensteiner Bad / to our dear women on the sand. In: Christian Lehmann : Historical scene of their natural peculiarities in the Meißnischen Ober-Ertzgebirge. Leipzig 1699, pp. 225-232. ( Digitized version )
  • Warmbad near Selva in the Kingdom of Saxony . Hot strip 1883 ( digitized version )
  • Wolkenstein bath . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 13th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1826, pp. 307-312.
  • Britta Günther , Nina Krüger: Warmbad - The warmest and oldest healing spring in Saxony. District Office Middle Ore Mountains, Marienberg, 2000.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Köhler : Historical news of the warm bath under the Chursächsischen mountain town Selva: together with advertisement of the nature, the use and use of the same. Fulda widow, 1791.
  • Wolfgang Küchler: Warmbad, warmest healing spring and oldest bath in Saxony. In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter . Issue 5/1994. Pp. 18-21. ISSN  0232-6078
  • Caspar Heinrich Schrey: New clock age Wolckenstein warmer Bahd and water treasure. Franckfurt an der Oder 1696. ( digitized version )
  • Richard Steche : Warmbad to UL Women on the Sands. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 5th issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Marienberg . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1885, p. 31.

Web links

Commons : Warmbad  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for Selva, City. (PDF; 0.6 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on January 29, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b cf. Warmbad in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  3. ↑ a b cf. Wolkenstein bath . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 13th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1826, pp. 307-312.
  4. ^ Railway stations in Saxony , accessed on January 3, 2013.
  5. ↑ cf. Internet presence of the Kur- und Gesundheitszentrum Warmbad Wolkenstein GmbH , accessed on November 24, 2010.
  6. ^ Kurort Warmbad now officially "Heilbad" , press release of the Saxon State Ministry for Economics and Labor from September 29, 2016.