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Goosefoot
Waters Old Danube
Geographical location 48 ° 14 '  N , 16 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 14 '  N , 16 ° 26'  E
Gänsehäufel (Vienna)
Goosefoot

The Gänsehäufel (also called Gänsehäufl ) is a wooded sand island in the Old Danube in the Viennese district of Donaustadt , which is used as a bathing facility. The name refers to the former "heaps" (alluvial islands), which are said to have primarily served the goose breeding.

history

At the Gänsehäufel lido
Goosefoot West Beach
The still unregulated Danube near Vienna in the 1870s; the former little goose pile is highlighted in green

Before the Viennese Danube regulation, which was carried out from 1870 to 1875, there were two islands called Kleiner Gänsehaufen in the middle of what was then the main arm of the Danube . As a result of the regulation, this river bed became a standing body of water, today's Old Danube . The northern, larger of the two islands became today's Gänsehäufel, the more southern one has since been a peninsula, which is known as Kleines Gänsehäufel .

Berndls Gänsehäufel (plan sketch)
Florian Berndl's idyll on the Old Danube

Naturopath Florian Berndl noticed the goose heap during his hikes, whereupon he leased part of the island in 1900 to set up a noble willow culture there. In fact, however, the naturist Berndl brought nature-related physical culture closer to Viennese who love bathing. Not least because of conflicts with evidence-based medicine and conservative circles that condemned bathing by women and men together, Berndl's lease was terminated in 1905, officially due to a lack of a canteen license. Berndl leased a piece of land on the northern bank of the Old Danube, which he called Brazil in Vienna - inspired by the sandy beach - and later the allotment garden settlement New Brazil developed from it .

The bath on the Gänsehäufel, taken over by the City of Vienna, was opened on August 5, 1907 as the bathing beach of the Commune Wien am Gänsehäufel . In the last weeks of the Second World War it was completely destroyed by bombing. In 1948, the city began rebuilding according to plans by Max Fellerer and Eugen Wörle, and in 1950 it was opened. At the beginning of the 2000s, the now listed bathroom was renovated. Today, up to 30,000 people can visit this bath every day. It is the most popular urban outdoor swimming pool in Vienna.

The pool has its own cordoned-off nudist area, several beaches with a total length of around one kilometer, as well as numerous sports and leisure facilities, such as wave pools, sports and toddler pools with preheated water, water play garden, water slide, parent-child area, Playgrounds, a beach volleyball court and, since May 2007, a high ropes course . Since May 2013 you can also learn stand up paddling there .

A “ subculture ” of its own developed in Gänsehäufel : Cabans were and are rented out, but their long-term tenants are not allowed to stay there. Like all other day guests, you must leave the bathroom when the pool is closed. These cabins with a porch are typically listed and have neither electricity nor water connections. For the tenant and two co-users, entry to the pool is included in the seasonal rent of a good 600 euros (as of 2011). Only those who have been co-users for 3 years can put themselves on a waiting list as a prospective tenant. The waiting time is typically 3–5 years. Of the 3360 cabins, 2165 are seasonal, all of which are located northeast of the sand island as a kind of cabin village.

  • Bridge to the Gänsehäufel

  • Sunbathing lawn on the Old Danube

  • Cabin block F in the lido

  • On the goose-top

See also

literature

  • Rudolf J. Boeck: Municipal lido Gänsehäufel . Youth and People, Vienna 1950.
  • Gerhard Hofer, Hanne Eggardt: 100 years of Gänsehäufel - the island in the heart of the Viennese . Bohmann, Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-901983-52-X .
  • Gerhard Kletter , Leopoldine Lendarić: The goose heap . Ibera, Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-85052-237-7 .
  • A. Pichler, Karl Hanisch, H. Angeli: Municipal lido Gänsehäufel . Published by the City Council of the Imperial and Royal Capital and Residence City of Vienna, Schöler, Vienna 1910.
  • Joseph Wilheim: The sun and air bath in connection with sand and lido as well as cold water treatment at the same time a guide for the visitors of the Vienna lido “Gänsehäufel” . Szelinski, Vienna 1910.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 2, Page 460, sv Gänsehäufel [1]
  2. ↑ Record number of visitors in Vienna's baths , wien.orf.at, July 2, 2012, last accessed March 28, 2017.
  3. ↑ Alexandra Russ: Vienna: Summer vacation in Kabanen-Dorf wienerzeitung.at, July 13, 2011, accessed March 28, 2017.

Web links

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