Workers beach

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The workers ' beach pool was a public summer pool on the Old Danube in the 22nd district of Vienna , Donaustadt , Arbeiterstrandbadstrasse 89. Today, the workers' beach is located on its area .

history

Current state as a lawn, with the still preserved staircase

The area on the Upper Old Danube in Vienna's 21st district, Floridsdorf , was expanded into a lido by the workers' swimming club founded in 1909 in 1910/1911. According to Czeike's Historisches Lexikon Wien , the bath was built with the help of contributions from workers, especially book printers, and with the support of the Nussdorf brewery founded in 1819 and opened in 1912. In the same year, the street leading from Wagramer Strasse to Bad was named Arbeiterstrandbadstrasse . (Around 1900 the road leading to the kuk garrison shooting range, the Zahnehaufen and the Bruckhaufen was still unnamed on the city map.)

In 1934 the bath was handed over by the dictatorial government of Dollfuss II to the sports association of the trade union federation founded by the dictatorship ; democratic workers' associations were dissolved. After 1945 the pool, the area of ​​which is owned by the Danube flood protection competition set up by the state , was transferred to the administration of the City of Vienna .

In 1954 the border between the 21st and the 22nd district, established in 1938, was relocated on a large scale; since then the area has been in the 22nd district of Vienna, the Danube city . In the mid-1980s, the public bath was closed, and the facility was leased until 2014 and used privately.

Neighbors of the pool were the Eisenbahnerbad (21st district) and the communal lido Alte Donau (22nd district). Since, in the opinion of the city administration, the renewal of the swimming pool infrastructure was no longer worthwhile, a new contract was concluded with the Danube flood protection competition in 2014 and the previous lido was converted into a public sunbathing area (23,000 square meters, the so-called workers beach), starting with the 2015 swimming season which can exist without municipal staff.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New beach area since May 2015
  2. ^ Workers' beach in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

literature

  • Gernot Ladinig (editor): The Old Danube - people on the water. Bohmann Druck und Verlags-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Vienna, ISBN 3-7002-1138-4
  • Christine Klusacek, Kurt Stimmer: The city and the electricity. Vienna and the Danube. J & V, Edition Wien, Dachs Verlag, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85058-113-6 , p. 127

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Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 37.9 "  N , 16 ° 24 ′ 47.4"  E