Loretto bath
The Lorettobad , or Lollo for short , at the foot of the Lorettoberg in the Wiehre district of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau is the oldest family outdoor pool in Germany. When it opened in 1841, it was the city's first swimming pool. A special feature is a partial gender segregation in the bathing areas. There is a fully separate women's bathroom, but also a family bathroom. It is the only swimming pool in Germany that still has a separate women's pool.
history
The Lorettobad was founded as a Kaltes Flussbad by Johann Nepomuk Stadler. Around thirty years later he handed it over to his son-in-law Oskar Heim. At first, the swimming pool was a “men's and garden pool”, so only accessible to men. Back then , the water for the swimming pool came directly from the Hölderlebach , which still flows through the pool today. The cold water of the brook was naturally heated by a preheating basin.
When, at the end of the 19th century, some baths also set up women's sections in which the women could cool off, the women's bath was added in 1886 . The area, which is still man-free, is surrounded on all sides by walls, hedges and changing rooms. By 1886 most women could not swim yet, this had to be learned in general with this new fashion.
After Heim's death, the city of Freiburg acquired the swimming pool, which was used as an ice pond with a cold store in winter. During the First World War , the Reichswehr took control of the bath, which was no longer accessible to public bathing during this time. From 1920 it was leased to the swimming and sports club. Disputes arose with the municipality of Günterstal, which channeled sewage from their houses and stables into the Hölderlebach. This problem was later resolved by drilling a dedicated deep well for the Loretto bath. In 1926 the city of Freiburg took over the operation of the pool again under its own management. Presumably in 1940 the men's pool was converted into a family pool after heated discussions, citizens' initiatives and signature campaigns. The ladies' bathroom continued to exist. During the Nazi era, the Prussian Fähnlein group of the Hitler Youth was quartered in the bath.
In 1945 and from 1948 to 1951 the bath was confiscated by the military government and closed to the German civilian population. From 1952 the population of Freiburg was allowed to go back to the Lorettobad.
In the 1960s, plans were developed to build a ten-story building for the adjoining Loretto Hospital on the grounds of the bath , but these were discarded.
To protect the stainless steel pools, the water remains in the pools all year round. As a result, in the summer of 2020, when the pool was closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the water resembled a biotope and was used by insects, birds and, in some cases, amphibians. The circulation and chlorination of the water when it is not used makes no economic or ecological sense. The fear that the Asian tiger mosquito could colonize was dispelled by experts, as their antagonists were also in the water .
Gender segregation
The gender segregation has been abolished everywhere over the decades, but not in the Lorettobad. In 1980 a law student filed a lawsuit against this spatial separation, but it was unsuccessful, especially since there is a large bathroom for the whole family right next door. The court's reasoning was: "According to Section 10 of the Municipal Code , their dedication to be used according to the public institutions, the ban infringes for men to use the ladies' bath of Loretto bath, not against the principle of equality of the Basic Law ".
The ladies' pool was completely renovated in 1999, and since then significantly more female bathers have used it than before.
The almost 125-year-old single cabins in the women's area can be rented per season, so they are available individually for four months. Only a male lifeguard is allowed to enter the women's pool. From the 1970s, women had won, also topless to sunbathe.
During the public concerts organized a few times a year by the Friends of the Lorettobad , male guests are also allowed access to the women's pool. At the main entrance there are warning signs: “Men in the women's bathroom”!
Since many Orthodox Muslim women from Alsace discovered the women's bath, there have been differences between these and the long-established Freiburg women, so that police operations took place in 2016 and 2017. Neither the more clearly formulated swimming pool rules nor a failed petition against male pool attendants had changed anything about the conflicts.
offer
Since the pool is not heated, it is only open in the summer from May to September.
Family bathroom
- 25-meter swimming pool with a non-swimmer area
- Children's paddling pool with water mushroom and awning
- Large lawn and play area
- Water slide for children
- Sand and mud pit
- Deck chairs
- kiosk
- Table tennis court
- Great game of chess
Ladies bathroom
- 25-meter swimming pool with a non-swimmer area
- Children's paddling pool with water mushroom
- Sunbathing area
- Deck chairs
literature
- 150 years of Lorettobad , Festschrift, Bürgererverein Mittel- und Unterwiehre eV, Freiburg 1992.
- Silvia Cavallucci: summer, sun, ladies' pool. A trip through Germany's only outdoor swimming pool for women only. Lavori Verlag, Freiburg / Breisgau 2010.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Thomas Fricker: Freiburg: 50 times Freiburg: Lorettobad: Experience a concert in the women's bath once , Badische Zeitung, August 18, 2010, accessed on December 14, 2012
- ↑ Adolf Poinsignon : Historical description of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1978, ISBN 3-7930-0105-9 , p. 70
- ↑ Bathing in style at: Familienkultour.de
- ↑ Jelka Louisa Beule: The water in the Lorettobad has turned into a green broth. Badische Zeitung, August 15, 2020, accessed on August 17, 2020 .
- ↑ We are so free on: zeit.de
- ^ Judgment of the Freiburg Administrative Court on January 15, 1980, file number VS IV 86/78
- ↑ Stephanie Streif: Love & Family: Women can relax in the Lorettobad - including Muslim women , Badische Zeitung, July 25, 2011, accessed on December 14, 2012
- ^ Julia Littmann: Petition on the Lollo fails - Freiburg - Badische Zeitung. Badische Zeitung, August 18, 2017, accessed on August 18, 2017 .
Web links
- Friend of the Lorettobades eV
- Lorettobad on: badeninfreiburg.de
- Lorettobad Freiburg on: badische-seiten.de
- Lorettobad on: schwimmbadverzeichnis.de
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 1 " N , 7 ° 50 ′ 30.1" E