August 9, 1915, Monday

The Marienbad* list of patients says: “Frau Hoffmann Anna [sic!], Privatiere mit Sohn und Bruder” ¹, specifying Drohobych as the guests’ place of residence. If the trip goes uninterrupted and according to the timetable, Schulz and his family arrive at the resort already on August 7* ². Perhaps they do not immediately move in this guest house or its owners, Richard and Josefine Stingl, report their guests two days late for some reason. On the same day, they also confirm the check-in of several other people: merchant Louis Leopold with his wife Hulda from Berlin, merchant S. E. Landner, also from Berlin, merchant Ignaz Lederer from Pottenstein and Paula and Laura Heilpern from Vienna ³. Schulz, staying here from August 6, can encounter Klara Ewig from Drohobych, the wife of an engineer ⁴, who registered in Königsville with her child, Wilhelm and Rosa Thau, as well as several guests from Budapest: the merchant Mor Weiss, merchant Rudolf Béla Kalmár with his wife Ernestine, a merchant’s wife, Anna Stern, Magrit Neumann and a clerk’s wife Szidi Holzmann with a child ⁵. New people are arriving at the hotel on August 11*, August 14*, August 19*, August 26*, which suggests that someone of the present guests may have left the hotel at that time.

The guest house Königsvilla, located in the city center at Kaiserstraße (later Hauptstraße) 133, the main and elegant Marienbad street, was a first-class health resort ⁶. It offers its guests apartments and rooms with running hot water, bathrooms and central heating. It also has its own garage ⁷. He has his office in the guest house of prof. dr Vladislav Mladějovský (1866–1935) from Charles University in Prague, a balneologist specialising in the treatment of metabolic diseases such as gout, diabetes, and obesity, as well as a physiotherapist, climatologist, lover and expert on the Tatra Mountains ⁸. It is open all week from 8:00 to 10:00 and from 15:00 to 17:00, and on Sundays and public holidays only in the morning ⁹. (mo) (transl. mw)