Gehlenbeck outdoor pool
| Gehlenbeck outdoor pool | |
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 Entrance area |
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 Germany
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| Client | Office of Gehlenbeck |
| Construction year | 1970 (opening) |
| Floor space | 32,000 m² |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 19 '44.9 " N , 8 ° 40' 7.5" E |
The Gehlenbeck outdoor pool , formerly the Gehlenbeck district outdoor pool , is a municipal outdoor pool in the East Westphalian city of Lübbecke in North Rhine-Westphalia . The swimming pool is in the Gehlenbeck district . Since 2005 it has been the only outdoor swimming pool in the city. In 2004, a referendum was held about the outdoor pool , in which it was about the closure of one of the two leisure pools in Lübbecke.
location
The bath is located in the northern area of the Gehlenbeck district and therefore quite remote on the northeast corner of the city of Lübbecke, north of the small village of Eichholz, around 600 meters south of the Mittelland Canal , which also forms the city limits and within sight of the Great Peat Bog - the nature reserve of the moor begins immediately west of the bath, the actual high moor from there about 300 meters further. The high moor and the fact that the Flöthe , a slowly flowing moor stream, flows directly past the north side of the baths (like the Wittelsbach in the south) creates a beautiful, idyllic view from the lawn, but it also takes its toll in a certain way Mosquitos and horseflies from the breeding grounds of the ponds of the moor and nearby rivers are tormenting bathers .
The bath is located directly on the L771, a well-developed, but comparatively little-frequented country road . a. connects the places Gehlenbeck and Frotheim.
In 2014 the pool was visited by around 32,000 and in 2015 by around 30,000 people. In the very warm summer of 2003 , 78,000 people visited the pool.
Equipment and service
According to the city, the Gehlenbeck outdoor pool offers space for more than 3500 visitors. The pool, heated to 22 ° C, has 1,800 square meters of water surface, which extends to a large 50-meter pool with six lanes and a one-, three- and five-meter diving tower for swimmers, a smaller, shallower pool with a slide and a baby paddling pool to distribute. The lawns cover around 18,000 square meters and also offer areas for lawn sports. The area is as big as 2.5 soccer fields. There are also the obligatory changing rooms, showers, toilets and a kiosk or snack bar with seating and a playground . In addition to the packaged items (drinks, ice cream, sweets), the snack bar also offers warm drinks (coffee, tea) and simple warm meals (schnitzel, meatballs).
The playground was equipped with new play equipment in 2009 for 15,000 euros and now has an eight-meter-long pirate ship with a sloping platform for climbing and sliding. There are parking spaces on around 9000 m² directly in front of the pool.
The city of Lübbecke offers a free bus transfer to the outdoor pool. The "outdoor pool bus" starts shortly after noon at the Blasheim market square and then stops at the Lübbeck bus station, on Siekenkampstrasse and at Sander in Gehlenbeck on the way to the outdoor pool. The outdoor pool bus runs during the summer school holidays. The return trip from the swimming pool is from 6 p.m.
history
The official open-air swimming pool in Gehlenbeck was opened on June 1, 1970. The outdoor pool was the official outdoor pool of the meanwhile dissolved Gehlenbeck office . A curiosity in the wake of the dissolution of the office as part of the regional reform in 1973 and the affiliation of the community of Gehlenbeck to Lübbecke was that the city of Lübbecke had two outdoor pools from 1973. The Gehlenbeck public pool, which was once centrally located in the middle of the Gehlenbeck office, just south of the Mittelland Canal , also fell to the city of Lübbecke, although Lübbecke already had a municipal outdoor pool in the city center with the outdoor pool in Obernfelder Allee . That means, not the respective catchment areas of the baths, but the layout of the boundaries and responsibilities had changed: The former areas of the Gehlenbeck office north of the canal, the villages of Isenstedt and Frotheim fell to the city of Espelkamp with the regional reform . Although the citizens from there continue to use the bathroom, Espelkamp of course did not feel for the financing, i.e. H. Responsible for subsidizing the pool in Gehlenbeck, it had and still has a central city outdoor pool. So now Lübbecke had to finance two outdoor pools. After decades of discussion, the old inner-city open-air pool in a central location was abandoned in 2005 after a referendum in which Gehlenbeck was able to mobilize more citizens, and the very remote Gehlenbeck open-air pool became Lübbeck's only municipal open-air pool.
Referendum on May 2, 2004
The referendum was not successful. With a turnout of 40.4%, 57.8% of the voters answered the question with "no".
In the referendum, which was carried out on May 2, 2004, the residents of Lübbecke were able to comment on the following question:
- "Should the Lübbecke open-air pool be preserved while the Gehlenbeck official open-air swimming pool is closed and opened for bathing?"
The decision was hotly debated in the run-up to the population and in a certain way polarized the public. As a result, a majority of 57.78% voted for "No", with a majority with "Yes" in the south-western parts of the city, ie in favor of maintaining the old central open-air swimming pool, in the eastern parts of Gehlenbeck, Eilhausen and Nettelstedt a very clear one Majority (97–98%) with "no" voted. In addition, the participation in the decision in the three eastern districts mentioned was well over 50%, while in the others, including those in the densely populated core city , 58% of the city residents live there, well below that, mostly below 30%. Ultimately, the degree of mobilization of the camps was the deciding factor - the three districts of Kernstadt, Obermehnen and Blasheim, the majority of which voted for the maintenance of the outdoor pool on Obernfelder Allee, represent around 68 percent of the city's population. In addition, according to Section 4 of the statutes of the City of Lübbecke, only those who are German within the meaning of the Basic Law or who are citizens of a member state of the European Community (meaning the European Union) are entitled to vote on the implementation of referendums. From the outset, this included some of the fellow citizens, e. B. those with Turkish or Bosnian citizenship and also asylum seekers and who live predominantly in the core city and less in the rural villages in the area, participate in the decision from the outset.
Catchment area
Due to its peripheral location, the pool in Gehlenbeck is not the closest for all residents of the city of Lübbecke: after the closure of the central city open-air pool, it is now also the closest for the residents of the core city and the Stockhausen district , for the Obermehnen and Blasheim districts that is Outdoor swimming pool in Preußisch Oldendorf , for those of Alswede that in Espelkamp closer.
Nonetheless, the Gehlenbeck outdoor pool still finds its catchment area outside the city: for the former municipalities north of the Mittelland Canal, most of the municipality of Hille ( Hille-Dorf , Eickhorst , Ober- and Unterlübbe ), the citizens and visitors on their website even officially invites you to visit, as well as for the eastern districts of the community Hüllhorst (especially for the villages Schnathorst , Holsen and Bröderhausen ) it is the nearest bathing establishment.
- Table: residents in the vicinity of the bath. For Gehlenbeck it should also be noted that the majority of the few residents in the immediate vicinity live outside Lübbeck. In a radius of "2 km", around 500 of the around 1,400 residents live north of the canal, i.e. in Espelkamp. Within a radius of 3 kilometers there are around 2,500 people who live in Espelkamp and, to a lesser extent, in Hille. Even within seven kilometers of the Gehlenbeck outdoor pool, around 52,300 people from five municipalities live, but not all of Lübbeck's 25,000 residents; the majority of the Lübbeck districts of Alswede, Blasheim and Obermehnen with a total of 2,300 Lübbeck citizens (of the 3,700 inhabitants of these three districts) remains excluded even with this large radius. In the case of the baths in Obernfelde, the situation is different: only "Lübbecker" live within a radius of one and two kilometers, only within a radius of three kilometers there are around 650 residents (out of almost 19,000 residents) who live outside the city (in this case in Niedringhausen / Reineberg) have their place of residence. (Data determined using NRW residents - online calculator)
| bath | Residents in a 500 m radius |
Residents in a 1 km radius |
Residents in a 2 km radius |
Residents in a 3 km radius |
Residents in the 4-km radius |
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| Obernfelde outdoor swimming pool | 1,195 | 4,665 | 13,020 | 18,845 | 23,335 |
| Gehlenbeck outdoor pool | 75 | 140 | 1,410 | 6.320 | 13,670 |
Others
Controversy about continued operation
For a few years there has been a discussion at the municipal political level to close the Gehlenbeck bath for cost reasons in favor of a more centrally located and probably better frequented combined bath. Another parliamentary group is campaigning for the reopening of the listed, but decaying, former central city outdoor pool.
DLRG local group Gehlenbeck
The establishment of the DLRG local group Gehlenbeck was related to the opening of the public swimming pool. A lifeguard training course was held in the opening year 1970. In 1976 the membership was already 102 people. The DLRG local group Lübbecke joined the Gehlenbeck group on January 1, 1985. This is one of the reasons why the DLRG local group Gehlenbeck had 223 members in 2001. In 1977 planning began to found a diving group.
Facilities nearby
The NABU visitor center Moorhus is located directly next to the pool . The Renkhausen estate is just under a kilometer northwest of the spa .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Place and address on the official website of the city of Lübbecke
- ↑ Distance measured on TIM Online NRW
- ↑ Article Neue Westfälische Sept 2015
- ↑ Article New Westphalian Jul 2015
- ↑ Page the most beautiful swimming pool hot spots
- ^ Page of the WBL-Wirtschaftsbetriebe Lübbecke
- ↑ Article in the Neue Westfälische from July 2009
- ^ Page of the DLRG local group Gehlenbeck
- ↑ Directory of citizens' decisions in NRW ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Jens Kösters: The Citizens' Decision in North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume 4, Marburg 2005, p. 139, published on Google books
- ^ Statement of the city on the website of the city of Lübbecke
- ↑ Result of the referendum according to voting areas on the website of the city of Lübbecke
- ^ Statutes of the city of Lübbecke on referendums
- ↑ Internet presence of the neighboring municipality of Hille
- ↑ Data determined from residents of NRW - online calculator
- ↑ Article in the Neue Westfälische in June 2013
- ↑ Article in the Neue Westfälische August 2014
- ↑ Article in the Westfaelblatt dated August 7, 2014
- ↑ Website of the NABU visitor center Moorhus
