Lübbecke outdoor pool (Obernfelder Allee)
| Lübbecke outdoor pool | |
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| Client | City of Luebbecke |
| Construction year | 1953 (opening) |
| Floor space | 18,500 m² |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 18 '1.5 " N , 8 ° 36' 15.9" E |
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| Listed as a historical monument. West German championships in art and high diving in 1963 | |
The Lübbecke outdoor pool , also Obernfelder Allee outdoor pool , formerly the Lübbecke bathing establishment , is a listed outdoor pool in the East Westphalian town of Lübbecke in North Rhine-Westphalia . The swimming pool is located in the core city of Lübbeck . However, it has not been used as a bathroom since 2005. 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. Nevertheless, the site as well as the buildings and facilities continue to exist. In 1963 the West German championship in diving took place here.
location
The former bath is located in the south of the core city of Lübbecke and is therefore quite centrally located in relation to the city as a whole. The bathroom is located in the immediate vicinity of the stadium at the top Allee , where always the football club FC Lübbecke plays its home games and where in 1975 the last game in the field handball took place. The facility is located on the northern roof of the Wiehengebirge between 82 and 89 meters above sea level.
Equipment and offer
According to the city, the Lübbecker outdoor pool offered space for fewer visitors than the Gehlenbeck outdoor pool, which is also located in Lübbecke . The heated pool had a 50-meter pool with six lanes and a one-, three-, five-, seven-and-a-half and ten-meter diving tower . The eastern quarter of this basin was shallower and was also suitable for non-swimmers. There was also a smaller and shallower pool as a paddling pool. The sunbathing lawns cover around 8,000 square meters and also offer areas for lawn sports. The area is as big as 1.5 soccer fields.
In addition, in a horseshoe-shaped building that bordered the bathroom to the north, there were the obligatory changing rooms, showers, toilets and a kiosk or snack bar with seating. In addition, an apartment for the lifeguard was integrated where he lived with his family. The apartment is still inhabited today. In addition to the packaged items (drinks, ice cream, sweets), the snack also offered warm drinks (coffee, tea) and simple warm meals (schnitzel, meatballs) and was run by the lifeguard's family.
There are still parking spaces of around 2,400 m² in front of the pool. The parking area is much smaller than at the Gehlenbeck outdoor pool. This disadvantage was put into perspective by the fact that the pool could be reached on foot by a large part of the population due to its central location.
history
The city of Lübbecke had had a municipal bathing establishment on the north bank of the Canal Harbor since 1926 (until the territorial reform in 1973, some smaller areas north of the Mittelland Canal belonged to the city). The first plans to build a bathing establishment on Obernfelder Allee go back to 1938. At the council meeting on April 29, 1938, the committee agreed that the bathing establishment at the port had to be preserved. Due to the Second World War, the new pool was not built for the time being.
After the war in 1952, plans for the construction of a bathing establishment on Obernfelder Allee had progressed so far that the city council dealt with the award of the construction work in its session on July 9, 1952.
The opening of the Lübbecke outdoor pool took place on July 4th, 1953. The bath at the canal was already given up at this point. On this day, the outdoor pool on Obernfelder Allee was inaugurated, in the presence of the then Mayor Hülsmeier, who received the congratulations of the chairman of the West German Swimming Association, Albert Pellman. A curiosity as a result of the territorial 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 central one in the Lübbeck core city and the one that was formerly in the middle of the then dissolved Gehlenbeck office, Just south of the Mittelland Canal , the Gehlenbeck public swimming pool was located in the new town, but was very remote in the northeast corner of the municipality. 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 continued to use the pool in Gehlenbeck, Espelkamp naturally 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 swimming pool in a central location was given up in 2005 after a referendum in which Gehlenbeck was able to mobilize more citizens, and the very remote Gehlenbeck open-air swimming pool became Lübbeck's only municipal open-air swimming pool.
On July 21 and 22, 1963, the West German championships in art and diving took place in the Bad on Obernfelder Allee.
Referendum on May 2, 2004
The referendum was not successful. With a turnout of 40.4%, 57.8% of those who voted 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 districts, ie in favor of maintaining the old central open-air swimming pool, in the eastern districts of Gehlenbeck, Eilhausen and Nettelstedt a very clear one The majority (97–98%) voted “No”. In addition, 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 dwellers live there, well below that, mostly below 30%. Ultimately, it was only the degree of mobilization of the camps that made the difference - 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, from the outset from participating in the decision.
Catchment area
Due to its central location, the bath was the closest for most of the residents of the city of Lübbecke. Only for the Lübbeck districts of Eilhausen and Nettelstedt and parts of Gehlenbeck was the Gehlenbeck outdoor pool closer. Nonetheless, the Lübbecke open-air swimming pool also found its catchment area outside of the city: for the majority of the municipality of Hüllhorst , especially its districts of Oberbauerschaft and Ahlsen-Reineberg , but also for the western parts of Gehlenbeck, it was the closest 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 inhabitants 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 a 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 open-air swimming pool.
monument
The entry of the bath on Obernfelder Allee in the list of monuments of the city of Lübbecke took place on August 9, 2004.
Facilities nearby
The district hospital is located directly next to the bath. The old town of Lübbecke is around 1000 meters away.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article on the city history on the site of the city of Lübbecke
- ↑ Report and photo on Google Books
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Data determined from residents of NRW - online calculator
- ↑ Article in the Neue Westfälische in June 2013
- ↑ Article in the Neue Westfälische August 2014
- ^ A protected monument rots Westfalenblatt from August 7, 2014
