Bad Gastein- Water of life

Our guide told us that the statue was part of the First Hydroelectric Power Plant built in Bad Gastein. I still feel either he did not understand the question or we did not understand his answer.

Try imagining a world  and a life where there is no treatment for simple diseases which we today treat without a second thought. Do you know Mozart died from Asthama at the age of 35. If he had lived another 25 years how many more of his genius compositions would we have had with us today. At that time the cure for disease was bleeding. Mozart's doctors just bled him and made him all the more weak till he just succumbed to the disease or the treatment we will never know. Another treatment was water treatment and Bad Gastein because of its hot springs became famous for water treatment.

Outside was the public bath where we gathered our breath. Near the Common Bath was a statue of a lady taking a shower and we presumed that it was so. 

The signboard outside the only surviving old Water Treatment Clinic. Our German speaking guide took out the keys and opened the creaking gate and invited us to enter and have a look. It was extremely hot and humid and we had to bend almost double to walk in. The good wife had no such problem and briskly and brightly entered and examined all the nooks and crannies taking photographs with her new Nokia. I rushed out because of claustrophobia,heat and humidity.

The baths were always located adjascent to a Church. We have a picture of the church close to which the Bath and the clinic were located.                Bad Gasteins one and only Casino where we spent an enjoyable and colorful evening. However the crowd was only a tenth of what is there during the Skiing season.