Leisure pool oasis

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Entrance area of ​​the Oasis 2008
Interior view with main pool, diving tower and slide

The leisure pool oasis was from 1983 to 2010, a large indoor pool in Essen district Frohnhausen . Aimed at families with children, it was one of the first leisure pools in the Ruhr area when it opened .

history

Opening in 1983

On June 8, 1983, the oasis was opened by the then district mayor Helmut Karnath ( SPD ). A year later, around 400,000 guests had visited the pool, so the oasis got a second sauna. In 1985, investors offered 14 million DM for the purchase of the oasis in vain , as it was considered the most successful municipal swimming pool in Germany at the time , but it was never able to support itself.

Operation until 2010

With the opening of the then fun pool in Essen's Gildehof Center in November 1987, the number of visitors to the oasis fell. In 1992 the city looked for a private investor, but couldn't find one. After the nearby open-air swimming pool West on Nöggerathstrasse was closed in 2000 , the oasis was to be given an outdoor area to compensate for this. In 2001 a private investor received 870,000 euros from the city of Essen to convert the bathroom and run it at his own expense without subsidies. As a result, the oasis reopened as a surfland oasis in the summer of 2002 , as it was supposed to offer an artificial surf wave as an attraction. This was never completed. A request for further funds from the operator to the city was unsuccessful, so that the bath had to be closed again after a few months due to bankruptcy. In the spring of 2003, the city of Essen regained ownership through legal proceedings. They invested almost one million euros in extensive renovation and a new diving platform. This, however, against the advice of experts who pleaded for the reactivation of the not yet demolished outdoor pool West. The surf wave of the oasis that was not in operation was dismantled again in 2003.

The oasis opened its doors again on December 16, 2003. The outdoor facility, begun in 2002, was completed in May 2004. In March 2006, the two saunas were gutted and redesigned. In addition, sub-areas were given a new coat of paint and new plants. Most recently, the pool had up to 144,000 bathers a year. The pool report from 2008 recommended that the oasis be closed after the new Aquapark Marina leisure pool was opened in neighboring Oberhausen . An existing structural building and location-related deficit was cited as justification. Closure plans for 2010 had been considered.

Closure in April 2010

On January 27, 2010, the city council of Essen - with the consent of the SPD , CDU , FDP , Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and the Essen Citizens' Alliance - decided to close the oasis for April 1, 2010 by around 1.4 million Saving euros in deficit per year.

The last day of swimming was on March 31, 2010, when the oasis was open again until 9 p.m. with free admission at times. For the time that followed, the systems had been shut down so that no structural damage should occur. It should now be checked for about six months whether the property can be operated by third parties in a bathroom-like manner or whether the property can be used by residential construction or small businesses. After some interested parties refused, the city cost the decommissioned building a good 170,000 euros in maintenance throughout 2011 (property tax, heating, security, etc.).

Demolition at the end of 2013

At the end of October 2012, the city of Essen decided to demolish the leisure pool. The demolition, which took place between the beginning of November 2013 and June 2014, cost around 550,000 euros. The changing rooms were used in the Grugabad , the ventilation units in the Kettwig swimming center . In the following, the sale of the property is to be publicly advertised. There are plans to create old-age-friendly forms of living and a day-care center on the property in the future. Even during the demolition, a near-day mining shaft from the United Hagenbeck colliery was suspected to be under the site . After appropriate drilling, it may have to be backfilled in order to be able to build on the area later.

Subsequent use of the site

In 2016, the site on which the oasis was located was bought by an investor and the building application for a daycare center with around 3,600 square meters was submitted. The daycare center is under construction in autumn 2017. Residential development is planned in the area of ​​the former parking lot of the oasis.

Former equipment

The bathroom consisted of an indoor area and, since 2004, an outdoor area. A total of 600 square meters of water was available inside. Spread across it were a water slide, a diving tower with a three-meter board, a white water canal, a whirlpool, a climbing wall and an area with massage jets. Separately, small children could use a paddling pool with a slide. There were also saunas and sunbeds. In 2006, a party room for children's birthday parties was built near the restaurant. A fitness room was also available. The stay of the bathers was constantly accompanied by background music through loudspeakers in the hall.

The outdoor pool was surrounded by a lawn with a children's playground. There was also a herbal sauna on the outdoor area.

The bath water, heated to 30 ° C, was treated for the first time in Essen using an electrolysis process, so that no chlorine was released directly into the pool. The water also contained a certain amount of salt.

Various baby, adult and senior courses were offered.

Web links

Commons : Oase (Essen)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Is the oasis really out? in: Stadtspiegel Essen - West Anzeiger from January 20, 2010
  2. The old new bad bankruptcy oasis; in: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung from February 1, 2008
  3. Oasis closes on April 1st ; in: Stadtspiegel Essen - West Anzeiger from January 30, 2010
  4. Freizeitbad Oase - take your plug out and look for a tenant; in: Neue Ruhr Zeitung from April 6, 2010
  5. How the Essen fun pool “Oase” was shipwrecked ; in: derwesten.de from November 14, 2013; accessed on September 13, 2017
  6. There is a shaft under the old "oasis"; in: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of July 26, 2014
  7. Large area around Ex-OASE - soon the puller , in: Lokalkompass Essen from June 22, 2017; accessed on September 13, 2017

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 16.9 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 1.2 ″  E