Goseriedebad

The Goseriedebad on a picture postcard from around 1905

The Goseriedebad was an indoor swimming pool in Hanover , opened in 1905 and closed in 1982 , which is named after its location on the Goseriede street near Steintorplatz . After renovations in the 1980s and 1990s, the former indoor pool is now used by the Kunstverein Kestnergesellschaft and the private radio station radio ffn .

history

The beginnings

The Goseriedebad was built after the decision of the municipal committees on October 29, 1902 to build a bathing establishment with three swimming pools , 40 baths , a steam and air bath and a dog bath. The building, erected between 1902 and 1905 according to a design by Carl Wolff , is stylistically assigned to the Neo-Baroque style, but the design details also show the influence of Art Nouveau . When it was completed in 1905, it was the first indoor swimming pool in Hanover. The Müllersche Volksbad in Munich and the Frankfurt Bad served as models .

The 208 m² women's bathroom was on the left, the 404 m² men's 1st class bathroom on the right. The 240 m² men's bath, 2nd class, was in a secluded location. In 1937 the men's pool, 1st class, was converted for swimming. In 1928 the Anzeiger high-rise was built next to it . During the air raids on Hanover during World War II , the pool was badly damaged in 1943 and partially reopened in 1948 after repairs. In the 1950s, there were further conversions for various uses, such as family or school and club sports. When more indoor swimming pools were built in Hanover in the 1970s, discussions began in 1974 about closing the Goseriedebad, which took place in 1982.

Conversion

Front view of the Goseriedebad with the seat of radio ffn in the right third, on the left the Kestnergesellschaft

In 1990 the publishing company Madsack acquired the building and offered the former women's bath and the entrance hall with ancillary rooms to the Kestnergesellschaft for use. The men's swimming pool was taken over by the radio station radio ffn. After an international architectural competition with the support of NORD / LB and the Lower Saxony Foundation , the building was rebuilt by 1997 according to a design by the Hanover architecture firm Koch Panse and was awarded the BDA prize in the same year . The Kestnergesellschaft has 1500 m² of exhibition space on two levels.

literature

• Paul Wolf : The new municipal bathing establishment on the Goseriede in Hanover , with floor plans and an architectural drawing in: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , issue 99, 23rd year (1903), pp. 625–627; Digitized by the Digital State Library Berlin
• Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: The northern suburban development. In: Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.), Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.): Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany , Monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1, (Volume) 10.1. Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 80ff .; as well as middle. In: Annex directory of architectural monuments according to § 4 NDSchG (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status July 1, 1985, City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 6 f.
• Klaus Dieckmann, Thomas Schmidt: The Goseriedebad. A Hanoverian indoor swimming pool from the Art Nouveau era . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . Neue Episode 45 (1991), pp. 1-85.
• Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Goseriede 11th In: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon . P. 126.
• Peter Rutenberger: Bathing establishment in the picture. In: Peter Rutenberger (Ed.), Wolfgang Wagner (Red.): Anzeiger. How Fritz Höger's Anzeiger high-rise became the focus of the new art and media center at Hanover's Goseriede. in collaboration with Peter Struck ed. on behalf of the Madsack publishing company. Madsack, Hannover 1997, ISBN 3-7860-0520-6 , pp. 148-167.
• Helmut Knocke: Goseriedebad. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 226 f.

Web links

Commons : Goseriedebad  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Photo of a swimming pool in the Goseriedbad

Individual evidence

1. ↑ And when does Leonardo come to the ladies' pool? ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2011 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. www.art-magazin.de Heftarchiv - Edition: 5/1997, pp. 36–39.  

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 38.6 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 53.6"  E