EXAMPLES OF THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BATHS IN ESKİGEDİZ (KÜTAHYA): Gazanfer Ağa Bath and Azmizadeler Bath
ESKİGEDİZ’DEKİ (KÜTAHYA) HALK VE ÖZEL HAMAMLARDAN ÖRNEKLER: Gazanfer Ağa Hamamı ve Azmizadeler Hamamı

Author : Türkan ACAR
Number of pages : 80-92

Abstract

There are thirteen districts of Kütahya in the Aegean Region. The subject of our study is Gediz, about 95 km southwest of Kütahya and 45 km north of Uşak. The history of Gediz dates back to the Phrygians (750 BC). Known as “Kadoi”, the city was rebuilt in the Phrygians under the name “Kadus” for the Phrygian hero Kadis. The settlement, which was managed as a sanjak during the Seljuk State and Germiyanoğlu Principality, was later under Ottoman rule. The settlement in the Ottoman Empire was the center of the district in 1871. Gediz, the flood in 1875, 1901, 1911, 1945, was destroyed by fire in 1911 and the earthquake he had suffered in 1970. After the earthquake of 1970, with the decision of the Council of Ministers dated 05.08.1970,7/1164 no, the settlement was moved to the so-called “Karılar Bazaar” which is 7 km away from Eskigediz on the Simav highway. In the land survey conducted in Eskigediz in 2018, two different types of baths, one of them belonging to the Late Ottoman period, one being a public bath and one private bath, were studied. In our study, the plan and space fictions of the buildings examined in situ were introduced with the methodology of Art History and their place in the bath structures built during the Turkish period in Anatolia was discussed.

Keywords

Kütahya, Eskigediz, bath, dome, arch

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