Bühlau outdoor pool
The Bühlau outdoor pool is a former swimming pool in the Bühlau district of Dresden . It opened in 1908 and closed permanently in 2006. Today the main building, the terrace and the swimming pool still exist. The ensemble is a listed building.
history
The former owner and director of the Saxon Electricity Company, Paul Bachmann (1871–1923), was a healer at the beginning of the 20th century and, like his famous neighbor Heinrich Lahmann on the White Deer , relied on the healing effects of air, sun and water than that of medicine. He supported the Badpläne and leased the land corresponding to the lifeguard and masseur Karl students. He founded the Sanatorium und Kaiser-Barbarossa-Bad in Bühlau GmbH on November 23, 1907and built an air and water bath with swimming pool, refreshment room, changing room, toilets and entrance building on the property. The bath was opened on May 30, 1908. The facility was initially reserved for the guests of the sanatorium located above. Menzel also received permission to open the air bath to families at set times. The name "Bachmann-Bad" quickly became known.
In April 1909 Menzel resigned as managing director. Bachmann hired senior staff physician Dr. Bernhard Hahn von Dorsche and gave him the license. But soon there was tension between von Dorsche and Bachmann. Both were also at odds with the sanatorium staff. Bachmann was described as a con man and a moral criminal. The competition at the Weißer Hirsch also clouded business. In September 1911 the sanatorium and the bath were closed. Bachmann sold the entire facility in autumn 1911 to the Lohse-Schauer-Hilgenberg medical consortium, which reopened the sanatorium and air bath in June 1912. As before, the bathroom was initially open to the public. During the First World War it was reserved for spa guests only. But business was unsatisfactory. The consortium of doctors was in liquidation in 1928.
The property at Bachmannstrasse 4–8 with the air bath came into the possession of the company director Willy Schmidt. He rebuilt considerably and reopened the bath in 1929. Over the next few years, Schmidt had a striking café with a roof terrace built. The swimming pool including the paddling pool was extended to 50 meters. Schmidt even had the Loschwitzbach relocated for this purpose. There were two lawns for sunbathing on the slope, of which the rear one quickly acquired the slippery reputation as a "love meadow". Tennis and mini golf facilities complemented the offer. In 1930 Schmidt also planned the installation of a radio system to entertain his guests with music. This caused some residents to take action against the concession to operate the pool and to at least achieve a time limit until 7 p.m. The summer of the previous year had already shown that the noise from the outdoor pool visitors was so enormous that the residents of the neighboring retirement home in particular could hardly have opened their windows without being annoyed by the noise. For this reason, the walks through the adjacent park are anything but relaxing. But the application was rejected. Only loudspeakers were not allowed to be installed and the bathroom had to close at 9 p.m.
When the company got into economic difficulties, the city of Dresden bought the property in 1939. Much was destroyed in a severe storm in 1952. Walls and fences had collapsed and had to be rebuilt. At the end of the 1970s, repairs to the swimming pool were necessary, which also included replacing the starting blocks and two 1-meter diving boards. The 3-meter tower, however, could no longer be used because the water depth was now too shallow. In 1987 a new ticket booth was built. Seven years later, new toilets, showers and a first aid room were added. The terrace was also modernized after the restaurant below had been closed for two years after a smoldering fire . In 1995 the outdoor pool in Bühlau was placed under monument protection. But the closure of the plant could not be stopped. In the end, every visit to the outdoor pool was subsidized with over 7 euros. The two entrances, Bachmannstrasse and Grundstrasse, caused operating costs to skyrocket, among other things. A water treatment system was missing because it had been expanded during the work in the 1990s, and the shady location in the valley also increasingly kept guests away. In 2006 the city council decided to end operations. A citizens' initiative fought the closure for four years, but unsuccessfully.
The swimming pool and the children's pool are still right in front of the former restaurant with the terrace. Today the building and the outdoor swimming pool belong to the Waldseilpark Dresden Bühlau, for which the area has been leased since 2007. On currently twelve courses, guests can climb close to the ground or at lofty heights - including over the two old water basins. There is also a large tire slide, the tubing track.
literature
- Anett Hillert: Light, Air and Water - The History of the Dresden Outdoor Pools . In: Dresden History Book Vol. 11 . Ed. Stadtmuseum Dresden , DZA, Altenburg 2005, ISBN 978-3936300215
Web links
- The Bühlau outdoor pool at www.dresdner-stadtteile.de
- Waldseilpark on the bathing area
Individual evidence
- ^ Siegfried Thiele: Dresden yesterday and today . In: Dresdner Latest News . October 29, 2015 (for a fee online [accessed October 26, 2020]).
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 38.1 ″ N , 13 ° 50 ′ 34.2 ″ E