Former outdoor pool and city garden

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Parkbad Süd

The former outdoor swimming pool and city garden (Parkbad Süd / Stadtgarten) is a listed ensemble in Castrop-Rauxel in North Rhine-Westphalia . It was built in the 1920s and 1930s as a typical job creation measure and to improve the quality of life in the industrial city.

History and architecture

The small Volkspark is located near the southern city center and is strictly structured by right-angled paths. The urban planting was laid out from 1931 to 1932, the outdoor pool is adjacent to the south. It was erected from 1925 to 1926 under the supervision of Stadtbaurat Schmitz and was one of the first of its kind in Westphalia . The bathhouse is a three-winged wooden building. The central pavilion, which is covered with hipped roofs, has two floors and is open to the basin as an arcade . The size of the pool complies with international competition guidelines. For cost reasons, the pool was no longer open for the 1992 bathing season. In 1994 and 1995 there were plans in the media to designate the site as building land and then sell the parcels. After strong protests in the population, the association hands off the city garden was founded in 1995 and entered in the association register. The first measures taken by the association were applications to the State Monument Preservation Office in Münster and the state government to place the facility under protection as a monument. The application was approved and the city garden and swimming pool were entered in the list of monuments. Then a new usage concept called the Parkbad Süd cultural and leisure center was developed, and in 1997 the International Building Exhibition Emscherpark included it in the Take Initiative project . From 1997 to 2001 it was converted into a cultural center for around 1.5 million DM.

Attractions

  • Lawn ground floor
  • Avenue of lime trees
  • a large gondola pond with a waterfall and an island

Todays use

The Parkbad Süd reopened in spring 2001 as a friendly event location . There are concerts, live performances and other events. A restaurant was opened.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Dehio, Georg , under the scientific direction of Ursula Quednau: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , page 117
  2. ↑ a b Amount of funding

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 38 "  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 46.4"  E