River swimming pool

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" Badeschiff Kohl", Main , Frankfurt , 1800
River swimming pool in the Elbe (left in the picture) , Dresden , around 1900
Flussbad Pochhamer, Berlin , 1927
Frauenbad on Stadthausquai , Zurich , 2011
Spree , Berlin , 2008

A river swimming pool is a swimming pool whose water surface is located in flowing water. This can either be a separate area of ​​the river or a water-filled, floating basin within the river, also in the form of a so-called bathing ship .

history

While bathing was still considered dangerous in the 17th century, bathing culture became more and more popular in the 18th century in the Age of Enlightenment , due to the positive effects on health through cleaning and sporting activity. In order to create an alternative to spa treatments in seaside resorts and health resorts , wooden barriers or stalls were built on the edge of rivers and lakes. These mostly floated freely on the water and could be reached via footbridges . Swimming and bathing became increasingly popular and swimming schools were set up alongside spa facilities . As a rule, these had a rectangular open water surface, which was surrounded by a narrow platform all around; usually it was also surrounded by a privacy screen. Often it was supplemented by changing rooms and a lounge and lying area.

The first European river bathing establishment was built in Paris in 1760 . The first German bathing establishment was founded in Mannheim on the Rhine in 1777. This was followed by Vienna in 1781, Breslau in 1783 and Hamburg in 1792.

At the beginning of the 19th century, public bathing became popular with women and many of the river bathing establishments were given a partition so that bathing and swimming was possible according to gender. The popularity of the river baths increased with the growth of the cities, and in what was then Berlin (before the incorporation into Greater Berlin ) there were fifteen private baths in the Spree . In many places, however, the increase is also due to the transformation of so-called wild bathing areas into orderly and supervised bathing establishments.

There were several popular bathing boats in Hamburg . The river bathing ship in the Elbe was particularly popular.

With industrialization , the pollution of the rivers increased sharply, especially in the cities, so that the river swimming pools were gradually closed. For this reason, for example, river bathing in the Parisian Seine has been banned since 1923. In Germany only a few river baths have survived or have been converted into an open-air swimming pool separated from the river, such as the Brentanobad in Frankfurt am Main.

present

Since the 1990s, river swimming pools have become more common again with the increasing cleanliness of the rivers. There are several river swimming pools in Switzerland , including the Marzilibad in Bern and the Frauenbad on Stadthausquai in Zurich. In Berlin, the Flussbad Berlin project is committed to realizing a river bath near Berlin's Museum Island. In Dessau , the former Rehsumpf river pool is being restored with the help of the German Foundation for Monument Protection .

exhibition

See also

literature

  • Schröder-Bornkampf, Bettina; Kremer, Elisabeth; Lange, Ulrich; Weigt, Karin; Krausse, Joachim; Meier, Klaus; Reichhoff, Lutz; Schaller, Walter. 2019. More light, air, sun - the river pool at the Dessau deer swamp. Deer swamp e. V. (editor). Dessau: Jonitzer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-945927-08-3

Web links

Commons : River Swimming Pool  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Badeschiff Berlin - Spree - swimming pool - city beach Berlin. Accessed June 30, 2019 (German).
  2. ^ Bettina Kratz-Ritter: On the (mentality) history of river bathing in Göttingen , Göttinger Jahrbuch 62 (2014), history association for Göttingen and the surrounding area
  3. ↑ Hella Kemper: Elbschwimmer: the return of a bathing culture. Murmann Verlag, 2006, p. 18. ISBN 3-938017-54-6 .
  4. ↑ University of Wuppertal: River swimming pool Cologne-Mülheim ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 31, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arch.uni-wuppertal.de
  5. ↑ Christine Longin: For bathing in Paris - natural bathing experience in the river swimming pool . In: volksfreund.de of July 18, 2017. Retrieved on August 2, 2017.
  6. ↑ Beatrice Härig: Swimming in the pig crate. Flussbadeanstalten yesterday and today , in: Monumente -Magazin August 2018, pp. 66–73
  7. ↑ Swim City | S AM Swiss Architecture Museum. Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
  8. ^ Badische Zeitung: Why the Swiss love to bathe in their rivers - Basel - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
  9. ^ Badische Zeitung: Aqua Incognita - guided tour to magical places on the Rhine - leisure tips and festivals (TICKET) - Badische Zeitung. Retrieved June 29, 2019 .