bathing ship
Badeschiff is a term used in bathing culture . It usually refers to a swimming pool floating on a river . In contrast to a river swimming pool , in which a certain part of a river is delimited as a bathing establishment , it is a container (largely or completely) closed towards the river, which has a water inlet. The first bathing ships appeared in the 18th century.
history
In 1761 there was a bathing ship on the Seine for the first time, an establishment of the royal personal bathers Jean-Jacques Poitevin. These were two houseboats connected to one another, in which there were a total of 33 bathing cabins, in which you could bath and shower hot and cold. The river water was used for this. You could swim in the running water between the two boats. In 1781 the Viennese doctor Pascal Joseph de Ferro invented a bathing raft that floated on the Danube and was attached to the bank. There were openings in the bottom of the raft through which a ladder could be used to access a wooden lattice box. So, as it were, bathing took place in the cage. This construction was popularly called an eel box. The official name was Strombad .
In 1793, a bathing raft was put into operation in Hamburg on the Inner Alster near the Jungfernstieg . It emerged after lengthy debates at the suggestion of the Patriotic Society . It was open daily from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. and operated until 1810. Another Badeschiff succeeded him in 1810. In 1845, three years after the Great Hamburg Fire , it was moved to the Outer Alster.
The Badeschiff on the Elbe , which was built around 1835 at the Johns shipyard on the Großer Grasbrook , became particularly popular . It was in front of the Grasbrook in the warm months and could be reached by rowing boat. It was known for several decades as the Johns'sche Badeschiff, as it was operated by the shipyard of the same name on Grasbrook. It probably existed until the 1880s.
In 1800, a particularly luxurious bathing ship was put into operation in Frankfurt am Main . The owner was the doctor Johann Gottfried Kohl . The ship had eight bathrooms, including one for families, and a living room. The operator wrote at the time: “You step in from the bank on two small bridges. A covered gallery runs around the bathhouse. This leads into an anteroom and eight nicely furnished bathrooms (...) Nearby there is a beautiful esplanade for guests , where they can drink mineral water and stroll around before and after bathing. "
The Berlin artist Susanne Lorenz and the AMP Arquitectos office with Gil Wilk designed the "Badeschiff" in Berlin in 2002 as part of the con_con exhibition (curator Heike Catherina Mertens) . This floating pool in a barge opened in 2004. Despite its name, the Berlin Badeschiff is not a bathing ship in the historical sense, but for the first time combines the idea of the bathing ships with that of the river baths, in which one could not only bathe, but actually swim.
See also
Web links
- bigjump.org ("European River Bathing Day ", e.g. July 14, 2019)
Footnotes
- ↑ Das neue Badschiff zu Frankfurt am Mayn (article) (copper plates 19, 20, 21 on the article and explanations on the plates) In: Journal des Luxus und der Moden July 1800 pp. 377–379, pp. 379–380, panels 19 , 20, 21