Wildbad Kreuth
Wildbad Kreuth is a district of the municipality of Kreuth , located near the Tegernsee in Upper Bavaria . It is owned by the dukes in Bavaria from the Wittelsbach family and Helene lives in Bavaria. The site was used as a spa by the Tegernsee Monastery and attracted prominent guests in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The sanatorium ended in 1973. From 1974 to 2016 it was used as an educational center for the Hanns Seidel Foundation . The name gained nationwide fame through the Kreuther separation decision made here at the CSU's closed conference .
geography
Wildbad Kreuth is located on a slope of the Hohlenstein above the Felsweißach, which is partly cut like a gorge into the rock, a few kilometers south of the village of Kreuth, south of the Tegernsee. The Felsweißach rises in the Blaubergen to the south and flows into the Weißach shortly after Wildbad Kreuth , which finally flows into the Tegernsee.
Wildbad Kreuth can be reached via the federal road 307 , which comes from the Achenpass and continues to Tegernsee . There is a bus connection to Tegernsee station , with a connection to the Bayerische Oberlandbahn in the direction of Munich.
history
According to legend, the healing properties of the sulfur spring were discovered by hunters who noticed the recovery of a deer drinking from it. Shepherds and farmers are said to have used the spring since then. The bath was first mentioned in a document in 1490. In 1511 the old bath house was built under Abbot Heinrich V. von Tegernsee. In 1818 Maximilian I Joseph , King of Bavaria , acquired the Wildbad Kreuth together with the secularized Tegernsee Monastery and had the current building built. Spa guests included Emperor Franz Joseph I , and Emperors Nikolaus I and Alexander I.
From 1924 until his death in 1960, the musician and folk music collector Kiem Pauli lived in Wildbad Kreuth. During the Second World War , the buildings were used by Hamburg schools as part of the children's area. At the end of the Second World War, the brewhouse went up in flames, until 1957 Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavaria converted the facilities into a modern sanatorium. Today the bath is owned by the dukes of Bavaria from the Wittelsbach family , who inherited the bath. They operated the spa until 1973.
In 1974 the Hanns Seidel Foundation leased the building and, after a general refurbishment, used it as a conference center and education center until 2016. In 1976, the Kreuther decision to separate the CSU and the later revoked termination of the factional community of the CSU and CDU caused a stir nationwide . During this time, the closed meetings of the CSU regional group in the Bundestag and the Bavarian CSU regional parliamentary group took place in Wildbad Kreuth every January . At the state parliament meeting in 2007, Edmund Stoiber's withdrawal as Bavarian Prime Minister was initiated.
In 2015 the Hanns Seidel Foundation announced that the owner wanted to increase the annual lease from the symbolic 84,000 euros to 630,000 euros, plus all maintenance costs. The foundation stated that it would not be able to continue leasing the building under the circumstances. The landlady disagreed with the sum mentioned and stated that no prices had been given in the negotiations. In July 2015, the foundation decided to let the lease expire at the end of March 2016.
A conversion and a new use are planned, the owners need the cooperation with an investor. After initially a conference hotel was planned, the concept has been based on a sanatorium with a medical focus since the beginning of 2017. At the end of 2019, Helene in Bavaria changed her mind again and already presented detailed plans for the conversion to a hotel with 80 rooms. To this end, most of the outbuildings previously used for agriculture would be converted for hotel use. In the west, an existing barn would be replaced by a two-story new building, the previous one-story bathhouse would be increased by an upper floor and converted into a modern bath and wellness area.
hikes
Wildbad Kreuth is the starting point for several hiking trails. One of them leads to the Blauberge and the Schildenstein . A scenic point on this trail is the Great Wolf Gorge , where the water flows over several waterfalls and pools into the valley. The Schildenstein and the Blauberge can be reached from here via a demanding, partly wire rope-secured path. Other hiking trails from Wildbad Kreuth lead to the Risserkogel and some alpine pastures such as Sieben Hütten, Geißalm and Königsalm.
Soil monuments
See: List of ground monuments in Kreuth
Web links
- Hanns Seidel Foundation (ed.): Wildbad Kreuth and its history. From Gesundbrunnen to the education center ( Memento from July 20, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 238 kB).
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Deutschländer: The CSU threatens to be expelled from Kreuth . In: Merkur.de , March 24, 2015. Retrieved November 12, 2017.
- ↑ Klaus Wiendl: The Duchess: No rent usury in the Wildbad . In: tegernseerstimme.de , April 12, 2015. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
- ↑ Heiner Effern, Wolfgang Wittl: How the CSU lost the battle for Kreuth. sueddeutsche.de, July 13, 2015, accessed on July 14, 2015 .
- ^ Laura Lorefice: Götterdämmerung in Kreuth . In: tegernseerstimme.de , March 30, 2016. Accessed May 24, 2019.
- ^ Maxi Hartberger: "Wittelsbacher Wellness" in Wildbad . In: tegernseerstimme.de , February 10, 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
- ^ Tegernsee voice: Kreuther municipal council agrees with hotel plans in Wildbad Kreuth - Duchess Helene can continue planning , October 11, 2019
Coordinates: 47 ° 37 ' N , 11 ° 45' E