Wildbad (Mörnsheim)

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Wildbad
Mörnsheim market
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 34 "  N , 11 ° 1 ′ 23"  E
Postal code : 91804
Area code : 09145

Wildbad is a wasteland in the municipality of Mörnsheim in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt .

location

Wildbad is located, almost entirely surrounded by forest, about two kilometers southeast of Mörnsheim, a little off the road Mörnsheim- Haunsfeld .

history

Since the Middle Ages, Wildbad, which belonged to the Eichstätt monastery , was a kind of medicinal bath because of a clear mountain spring that rises in a hollow in the nearby forest . The administration was the responsibility of the episcopal caretaker, who had resided at Mörnsheim Castle since 1363. The wild bath was probably used during court hunts in the Mörnsheim forest. It seems to have been destroyed in the Thirty Years War .

In the 17th century, Michael Raphael Schmuz († 1679), court medicus of the Count Palatine of Neuburg an der Donau , who had the work "New warhaffft, and a brief description of the area around Neustatt for excellent springing wild baths" printed in 1645, tried the Prince-Bishop Marquard II To move Schenk von Castell to rebuild the dilapidated bathhouse and to set up a larger bathing business. Despite an advertising / petition that he wrote specifically for this in 1674, he could not get through to the bishop with his plan. In 1689 the prince-bishop sold the "desolate" Wildbad, which must have returned to the bishopric, because in 1752 the fountain house with two stone basins and a cross vault was rebuilt at bishop's expense.

With the bishopric in 1802, the Wildbad became state property during the secularization and was sold to private individuals. The owner has been Hubert Graf von Waldburg-Wolfegg since 1932 , who built a chapel nearby.

In 1959 the Wildbad farm was connected to the Haunsfeld power grid. In 1992 a new chapel was consecrated.

Today we know that the still bubbling spring water from Wildbad is of good drinking water quality, but does not contain any ingredients that suggest a medicinal effect.

literature

  • Michael Raphael Schmuz (en) (von Poystorff): Kurtz, New and Never Described Wilt or Walt-Bad zu Mörrersheim, located in the Diocese of Eychstatt. Neuburg an der Donau: Court printer Joh. Modest. Strasser 1674
  • Rüth: The Wildbad near Mörnsheim. In: Neuburger Kollektaneenblätter. 50 (1886), p. 143 ff.
  • Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. II. Eichstätt District Office. Munich 1928, reprint Munich / Vienna: R. Oldenbourg Verlag 1982, p. 358
  • E. Riedelsheimer: The Wildbad. In: Heimgarten. Supplement to the Eichstätter Volkszeitung - Eichstätter Kurier. Volume 23 (1952), No. 48 and No. 52
  • Bernhard Eder: Dollnstein - Mörnsheim. Hike, look, experience. Kipfenberg: Hercynia-Verlag 1983, pp. 148-151

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