Brutalo Wellness in plastic slippers.

Sweating in Sulfur: For some inexperienced visitors is to visit in a real Turkish hamam only partially a pleasure. Lutz Jäkel could soak, boil, knead and Peelen - and survived to them to report.
  When the Ottoman sultans would have heard! Shaken would it! Only one time should be Louis XIV in its 65-year life have washed. Pfui Deibele! But no matter whether they knew it or not, then, that the Sun King was so afraid of water: The hygienic conditions in European courts of the Middle Ages were the Orientals, with its magnificent palaces Hamams equips, anyway Graus. The Prophet Muhammad has made his faithful: Intensive personal care is one of the Reinlichkeitsgeboten of Islam. And not in the broth, as the Europeans have always been in his bathroom to enjoy maintains, but with running water.
The city of Bursa was already in antiquity because of the fresh climate, water wealth of the rich and famous vegetation. Sulfur and iron-thermal sources of the district had already Cekirge skin rashes and pimples to the Roman Emperor disappear. Until now swears on the healing power of these baths. Therefore, Bursa as the capital of the Turkish Hamam (spoken with a length on the "a", ie Hamaam) and skin pulls Geplagte from all over the country.
The "Yeni Kaplica", the "New hot spring", is one of the oldest Hamams the city. Grand Rüstem Pasha had this bath middle of the 16th Century for his father build the famous Suleyman the Magnificent, Sultan those who first Ottoman captain to beat the gates of Vienna. We know nobody opened it.
Together with his architect Sinan Süleyman gave so much pomp buildings in order. If one, however, the facilities, so visitors receive the neon lights and plastic chairs, Sultan atmosphere makes you different from before. Well, grand behavior is also a long time ago.
Plastic slipper against aquaplaning
TURKEY-QUIZ [M] AP, DPA, blogs ONLINE They are more often than in the Hamam in the Finnish sauna, drink more coffee than espresso and have a döner subscription? And you think, so well equipped for a vacation in Turkey to be? Test your knowledge in blogs ONLINE Reisequiz! Plastic Speaking after the old wooden slipper repeatedly slipped bathers, there are now against the Hamam Aquaplaning plastic slippers , arguably the worst nightmare of every German would Hautarzt. But they fulfill their purpose.
At the reception with the obligatory portrait of Ataturk paid one of his Obulus converted four EUR, including all-round massage Abschrubb wellness deposit. Then come the valuables in a Holzschatullchen that the reception closes champion, he binds the key to the guest about the wrist.
The cabin, the man assigned to get is plastic-free, namely holzvertäfelt and more convenient than an indoor pool locker. Again, the belongings in a small chest closed, we have slides on the plastic with a slipper and elegantly tied around the hips in the holy linen cloth, kuppelüberwölbten halls. The air feuchtheißen swaths can imagine, representing an inside imminent.
"My skin fungus has capitulated"
The Hamams of Bursa, however, because of its thermal effect is a special feature. While you are in traditional steam baths in the Göbek Taschi the "heel stone" in the middle, and the impurities ausschwitzt, glides in Bursa in the hot sulphurous water.
Like Nizamettin, with verschrumpelten fingers in the steaming water relaxed, as it makes the heat of about 50 degrees from nothing. Amusedly he observed how the inexperienced foreigners recovered with abdominal and facial schmerzverzerrtem slowly, slowly gaanz into hot water slides. Quick rötet the skin, the air is thin, but yes, it's all for health, against the shed, blackheads and blemishes.
Nizamettin is extra from Muschalle arrived in eastern Turkey, as air and water, his lungs will relieve symptoms. "I've tried everything," says the 51-year-old, "Now our village has my doctor prescribed this treatment." And? "But, but, even better."
The old man who sits next to him, lives a few blocks away from the bathroom. "I come every day and put me two to three hours in the water. My skin fungus has capitulated," he says.
Farewell to the top layer of skin
Thus, the bathers relaxed and partly exhausted in the water or on the ground, the clapping of the slipper and Geplätscher water resonates in the individual domes resist and lose as a weak response in the small niches. There, waiting on the Tellak visitors. He called the lifeguards, torturer would be a more appropriate name.
With his rough cotton glove, the Kese, scrubbing it so martialisch on the skin that many of those in the form of small brown beads and rolls adopted and swirls through the air. Now tilt the master liter gel into a vast cotton bag, blow into it a few times and lets the offenders in a cloud of soap disappear, after the torture-Kese very relaxing effect. Carrot and stick.
Finally Tellak pours the plastic bowls of water masses over the reddened skin? hot for Hartgesottene (ie Turks), cool for weaklings (ie foreigners). Finally, in the skinned awaited released. As an intermediate course will be on the warm soil, sweat pleasurably to himself, and pour off water and about himself.
Massage as a frontier experience
Who but the all-round carefree program has chosen, is himself to blame. Indeed, as the conclusion of the wet torture still waiting Metin, the masseur. "Do not worry," he reassured. "I do this for 15 years. So far nobody has broken bones." Reassuring.
He pulls on the arms and legs, kneads feet and hands, scrubbing with his fist on the back, it cracks and crashes, you feel bones and muscles, which you do not even know that it has. And the Turks do that on every visit to voluntarily? "No," says Metin. "This was just the gentle tour. Turks like it harder."
Loose, verschrumpelt, durchgeknetet, but happy slain man slides back into the foyer, dresses in new linen and towels are yellow, sits on the yellow plastic chairs, and refreshed in a glass of tea or a cool ayran, the classic Joghurtgetränkt with much salt, which is sweating after many good use for.
Satisfied with the satisfaction to have survived, you pay an additional Obolus as a gratuity and will be with the traditional farewell "Güle güle kirlen" sacked "Will dirty laughing again!" Louis XIV is certainly a lot of laughter.