Gesundbrunnen (Sagard)
The healthy well Sagard was a spa and bathhouse in Sagard on Rügen. The institution opened in 1795 made the first seaside resort on Ruegen Sagard and founded a spa operation, which took place until about 1830.
History
The beginnings
Beginnings of a bath operation there was in Sagard already mid-18th century. Basis were the iron, lime and carbonated springs that flow into the current flowing through the " Brunnenaue " Sagarder Bach. End of the 18th century was the pastor Heinrich Christoph von Willich ( 1759-1827 ) clean some of the on fundamental ecclesiastical sources and bordering, create spaces and paths, and set up a bathhouse. The " fountain, bathing and entertainment establishment" opened on July 4, 1795. Sagard was thus the first seaside resort on Ruegen. Willich's brother, Dr. Moritz von Willich, promoted as Landphysikus of Rügen and Swedish- Western Pomerania, the development of the bathing operation by, he wrote two advertising leaflets for the healthy well. He wrote, inter alia: The small stream delights here by small waterfalls and elsewhere by his gentle trickling between the serpentine cuts the meadow. Immensely charming are the two walks along the well - Aue, of which the one below, the other higher runs away at the mountain fiefdom. At recreations of another kind, which are: carousel, bowling alley, game tables, Fortuna, swings, seesaws, discs, music and dance is not missing.
Achievements
Already in the opening year about 100 spa visitors were counted, primarily members upbraid shear noble families and officials from Stralsund and Greifswald. Built for her bath house had a room for warm baths, a shower-bath and two rooms for hot and cold spray, drip, knee and foot baths. The Bathers stayed at the inn "Linden House " and in various private houses. Your medical care and advice, Dr Moritz von Willich, a special spa doctor has not been set. Until the first decade of the 19th century the number of partly foreign bathers had grown to 500. Among the most famous bathing guests included Christopher William hoof, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Heinrich von Kleist and Wilhelm von Humboldt. The interest in visiting the Sagarder Healthy fountain declared himself well out of the prevailing zeitgeist of romance. The pristine nature of Rügen was fascinated by the bathers. Christoph von Willich promoted the fascination by letting create a path up to the chalk cliffs of Stubbenkammer. The construction is considered, including a 600 -step descent to the Baltic Sea beach, as the first tourist development measure the natural beauty of Ruegen.
Competition and decline
Around 1810 the bathing result of the occupation of Rügen subsided by Napoleonic troops and the coalition wars in connection therewith. Already in 1807, Christoph von Willich had resigned the post of spa director. Due to the decline of the bathing operation were plans to expand the mineral bath, which, inter alia, which provided for installation of a dance hall, a Belvedere and other avenues, not implemented. The foundation of the residence Putbus (1810 ) and the construction of the bathhouse in Goor ( 1817/1818 ) in the vicinity introduced an additional competition dar. Instead of the classic baths came at the beginning of the 19th century, the free swimming in the Baltic Sea in fashion. Still took a bourgeois tenants in 1818 again the bathers on. 1819 wrote the chronicler Johann Jakob Grümbke: Sagard on the Jasmund ( has ) 106 houses and 614 inhabitants, with a fresh spring, which is pretty much visited. But success did not last, because in 1833 reported Friedrich Karl von Strombeck about Sagard, woselbst an abandoned and dilapidated healthy well [ ... ]
Current situation
At the former park with its promenades, fountains and bathhouses remembers today the Historical park Brunnenaue who informed on a historic site on the history of the first bathing operation on Rügen by signs. The park was inaugurated after a partial reconstruction on 7 April 2007.