Dianabad (Leipzig)
The Dianabad in Leipzig was a privately operated public bathing establishment .
location
The Dianabad was in the rear building area of Lange Straße 10-12. Access was through property no. 8. At the time the pool was built, Lange Straße was on the eastern border of the city with the municipality of Reudnitz. Today the address belongs to the district center-east.
history
In 1869 the Dianabad was built on the private property of the type foundry owner Gustav Schelter as a public facility with shower, tub and sweat baths, and in 1873 a Roman-Irish steam bath was added. In 1880, the facility was expanded to include a swimming pool. Planning and construction management were in the hands of civil engineer Lothar Heym.
The pool in a hall over two stories high was 15 meters long, 8 meters wide and up to 2.8 meters deep. It was heated with steam by heating coils in the pool floor. The water temperature was 18 ° C in summer and 20 ° C in winter. Water fountains, fountains, a viewing gallery and artistic wrought iron railings created a special atmosphere. On the front wall was the slogan: "Salve fons limpide, fons iuventutis, robur infirmi, tutela salutis". (Greetings, a clear source, a source of youth, strength for the powerless, a haven of health.) A special attraction, in addition to two 1-meter diving boards, were gymnastic equipment, such as rope ladders, rings and trapezoids, that hung from the ceiling and reached into the water.
The entrance fee including a lockable changing room was 40 pfennigs. The bathing times for women and men were initially separate with significantly longer times for the men. That only changed in 1912 when the Leipzig Workers' Swimming Association took part in practice sessions, and from 1913 there were family bathing times, the first in an indoor swimming pool in Leipzig.
After the property was sold to a tobacco shop , the swimming pool was closed in 1921. The buildings were then used operationally. After the Second World War they fell into disrepair. The demolition was agreed in 1961, but it was not completed until 1984. The area has been undeveloped since then.
literature
- Peter Schwarz: Millennial Leipzig . Volume 2. PRO Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-945027-05-9 , p. 337
- Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . PRO Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 . P. 37
- Friends of the Saxon Sports Museum Leipzig V. (Hrsg.): Leipzig goes swimming - From Pleißestrand to New Lakeland. PRO Leipzig 2004, ISBN 978-3-936508-06-2 , pp. 114-116
- Lothar Heym: The winter swimming pools otherwise and now . In: The Gazebo . Volume 11, 1981, pp. 180–182 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 23.8 " N , 12 ° 23 ′ 38.8" E