JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. KARLOVY VARY/CZECH REPUBLIC

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Yom Shishi, Av 22, 5776. August 26, 2016.

Shalom! World.

Karlovy Vary/Czech Republic

Karlovy Vary is the biggest and most famous spa town in the Czech Republic. More than 6 million people from all over the world have visited the town during its existence. The spa tradition is the alpha and omega of Karlovy Vary. More than 70 hot springs can be found here and fourteen of them are used in the spa treatment. Their temperature ranges from 39 to 73°C. Mineral springs are used in drinking treatment, for baths, and also for a number of special treatment. Diseases of the digestive and locomotive systems trated as well as metabolic disorders are especially treated in Karlovy Vary.

MAIN POST OFFICE
Our walk through the valley of hot mineral springs will start in front of the Main Post Office of Karlovy Vary. The Post Office represents the boundary between the shopping centre and the spa area of the town. It was built from the plans of Friedrich Setz in 1903. At the time it ranked among the most modern post facilities in Austria-Hungary.

Part of the Antonin Dvorak Park is the Park Comonnade dating from 1881, the work of the Viennese architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer. 





The biggest Karlovy Vary colonnade, the Mill Colonnade. Its one of the traditional symbols of Karlovy Vary. It was built from the plans by Josef Zitek, the builder of the National Theatre in Praha, between 1871 and 1881. The building met scathing criticism after it was finished. It was compared with a bowling alley or a bed of carrots and asparagus. The original intention of the architect was to build a two-storey colonnade but this idea had to be given up through lack of money.  Construction work proceeded very slowly and the cost grew. The inhabitants of Karlovy Vary couldn't get used to the new peculiar building for years. The colonnade was completely reconstructed in 1982. 

The oldest and most traditional hotel of Karlovy Vary the Pupp Grand Hotel. There were two big halls on the site of the hotel at the beginning of the 18th century, the Saxon Hall and the Bohemian Hall. Johann Georg Pupp came to Karlovy Vary, in 1760, as a confectioner of Count Chotek. Later, he married into money, bought the two halls and started to rebuild them into one. This was continued by his descendants and, after a century, the big hotel complex was completed. The present appearance of the grand hotel, dating from 1893-95 is the result of long-terms repairs. The famous architects Fellner and Helmer worked here in about 1900. Ludwig van Beethoven took treatment in Karlovy Vary in 1812. There is a plaque about this visit at the Café of the Pupp Grand Hotel.  During his stay, he organized a benefit concert for the town of Baden near Vienna. Baden had been severely damaged by fire.
 

Shalom! Aleichem.

Cultural Support:  Jacob Jr. B.A.C.E., avec L'Integration d'Association avec Israel et dans le Monde/Cz .

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