Lázně V, Neo-baroque spa building in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
Elisabethbad is a three-wing spa complex in Karlovy Vary, built in 1905–1906 to Franz Drobny's design. Its mansard roof with three small towers is neo-baroque, while the facade and windows already show Art Nouveau forms; the main staircase keeps its iron railing with gilded festoons. A French-style park with a four-row avenue surrounds it on three sides.
Construction of the three-wing complex began in 1905 and lasted about a year, on the site of the former Franz Joseph I park and the city tree nursery. It was designed by Franz Drobny, Karlovy Vary's municipal building engineer. The roof is neo-baroque while the facade is already Art Nouveau. In 1918 the spa was numbered Lázně V, and from 2002 it was officially called Alžbětiny Lázně again.
The baths are named after Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria (Sisi), who visited Karlovy Vary in 1892 and was assassinated in Switzerland. From 1918 the facility was numbered Lázně V, and it was later also called Dr. David Becher Bad after the Karlovy Vary physician and benefactor. The original German name was Elisabethbad.
The spa sits in Karlovy Vary's northern spa zone, surrounded on three sides by a French-style park with a four-row tree avenue. It is a public municipal bath without accommodation, so treatments are booked directly rather than through a hotel stay. Ambulatory rehabilitation requires a doctor's referral, and a spa physician examination is available on site.
The spa is among the largest consumers of Karlovy Vary's thermal spring water, used for both traditional treatments and wellness procedures. A bronze statue of a girl with a jug by Břetislav Benda, made in 1940, was placed above the pool's spout in 1963.
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