Hovory o Praze: Rücklovy léčivé sluneční lázně
Mgr. Karel Tichý
The results of a groundbreaking long-term research on the completely underrated segment of technical monuments “Rückl's Healing Sun Baths”.
It has been possible to gather a considerable amount of previously unknown archival material, including the personal estate of the inventor and builder of the sun baths, containing a number of unpublished plans and period photographs. Antonín Rückl (1871-1938) came from a prominent Czech glassmaking family. He ran the family glassworks in Nové Mitrovice and from 1921 began to independently operate as the inventor of the healing sun baths, which he had patented. At his time, they experienced surprising expansion not only in Prague and across Bohemia, but according to archival documents, he also built baths as far as the French Riviera. Surprising findings also include reports of several now-dismantled implementations of sun baths in the territory of the capital city of Prague. The author's knowledge also stems from personal experience, as he is a co-owner and user of one of the few intact surviving sun baths in Dolní Beřkovice in Central Bohemia, which was commissioned by the general director of the local Lobkowicz estate, Otakar Wollman, in 1933.
The results of a groundbreaking long-term research on the completely underrated segment of technical monuments “Rückl's Healing Sun Baths”.
It has been possible to gather a considerable amount of previously unknown archival material, including the personal estate of the inventor and builder of the sun baths, containing a number of unpublished plans and period photographs. Antonín Rückl (1871-1938) came from a prominent Czech glassmaking family. He ran the family glassworks in Nové Mitrovice and from 1921 began to independently operate as the inventor of the healing sun baths, which he had patented. At his time, they experienced surprising expansion not only in Prague and across Bohemia, but according to archival documents, he also built baths as far as the French Riviera. Surprising findings also include reports of several now-dismantled implementations of sun baths in the territory of the capital city of Prague. The author's knowledge also stems from personal experience, as he is a co-owner and user of one of the few intact surviving sun baths in Dolní Beřkovice in Central Bohemia, which was commissioned by the general director of the local Lobkowicz estate, Otakar Wollman, in 1933.
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