%0 Report
%9 Conference Volume
%A Bonsanti, Giorgio
%A Borowka-Clausberg, Beate
%A Crouch, Tony
%A Eidloth, Volkmar
%A Enders, Siegfried
%A Flückiger-Seiler, Roland
%A Förderer, Andreas
%A Hascher, Michael
%A Jarrassé, Dominique
%A Krins, Vanessa
%A Kronenwett, Heike
%A Petzet, Michael
%A Poetschki, Lisa
%A Russ, Sigrid
%A Schmidt, Erika
%A Steinbach, Peter
%A Wilhelm, Johannes
%A Wolf, Claus
%A Zeman, Lubomír
%A ICOMOS Germany,
%A Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg,
%B ICOMOS Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
%C Stuttgart, Germany
%D 2012
%E Eidloth, Volkmar
%E Ziesemer, John
%E Förderer, Andreas
%F icomos:2256
%K leisure facilities
%K tourist facilities
%K spas
%K thermae
%K baths
%K history of architecture
%K 19th century
%K Europe
%K historical surveys
%K World Heritage List
%K town planning
%K railways
%K urban fabric
%K international inventories
%K national inventories
%K Germany
%K Czech Republic
%K Switzerland
%K United Kingdom
%K France
%N 52
%T Europäische Kurstädte und Modebäder des 19. Jahrhunderts = European Health Resorts and Fashionable Spas of the 19th Century / Stations thermales et villes d'eaux européennes à la mode au 19e siècle
%U http://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/2256/
%X This publication is a compilation of the papers held at the  international conference "European Health Resorts and  Fashionable Spas oftl1e 19th Century" (Baden-Baden, 25-27  November 2010) that was organised by the German National  Committee of ICOMOS together with the Baden-Württemberg  monument conservation authority and the City of   Baden-Baden. The reason for this conference was the fact  that several European spa towns are presently considering  applying for the UNESCO World Heritage List. In the form of  a comparative study the conference was meant to give first  impulses for a joint application. However, it was not intended  as a means to help several interested spa towns to get  accepted as World Heritage more easily by joining forces.  Instead, the idea of a transnational, serial nomination developped from an intensive preoccupation with tlle phenomenon of the spa town initiated by the Baden-Württemberg monument conservation authority and the City of Baden Baden.   Spas and health resorts existed in Europe since the Antiquity; due to  societal conditions they became most popular in the 19th  century. Apart from countless small spas and health resorts  of regional relevance a few large health resorts and fashionable spa towns of international standing developped, modeled on the princely spas of the 18th century. Their Europe-wide  attraction and international profile was also reflected  in the urban layout. These large spa towns of the 19th century, where different lines of development converge, are not simply marked by buildings for therapeutic services, but by the entity of the topographical and urbanistic structure.  Consequently, paths and huts in the surrounding forests can  be just as significant for understanding the relevance of a  spa town as the spa facilities, a Russian-Orthodox church, a  racecourse or a band-stand. Tue partly parallel development  of seaside resorts and climatic health resorts was not discussed  at this conference, because formally and functionally they represent separate types of settlement.