The Iodine Spa
1910Iodine Spa
Captioned in Hungarian and German, Ártézi fürdö and Artesisches Bad, the artesian bath, with Établissement de bains added underneath in French by a later hand. A motor bus and an open car stand on the unmade drive among the crowd waiting at the front.
About this place
Iodine-rich mineral water was struck here in 1897 during drilling for drinking water near the Futog forest. A spa was built from 1908 and opened in 1910, its Secession-style main buildings designed by the Budapest architect Imre Francsek. The complex, which included the Park hotel and a bathhouse, was enlarged in 1931 and remained a well-known resort into the 1960s; its central pool closed in 1977. The buildings today house the Special Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, the only specialised rheumatology institution in Vojvodina, and the whole ensemble is protected as a cultural-historical complex.
- Date
- 1910
- Coordinates
- 45.24982, 19.82854
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 1037 × 676 px