Indoor swimming pool east (Kassel)

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The Hallenbad Ost is a former indoor swimming pool in the Kassel district of Bettenhausen . The building by the Kassel architect Fritz Graubmann was built in 1930 in the Bauhaus style; it is a listed building because of its Bauhaus facade. The bath was shut down in 2007 due to dilapidation and has been idle ever since.

history

Since the turn of the 20th century, the population of the city of Kassel quickly grew to well over 100,000, and there was a need for leisure and hygiene facilities. During this time, a gas works was put into operation in 1894 on the area of ​​the “Small Forest” on the “Fackelteich” in today's Nürnberger Straße, not far from the later location of the indoor swimming pool. The indoor swimming pool was opened on June 15, 1930 and was supplied with steam, hot and cold water by the excess heat energy of the gasworks through an approximately 500 m long supply duct. The pipes ran parallel to Söhrestrasse along the Wahlebach . The bath was operated by the Städtische Werke, founded in 1929 as the first municipal stock corporation .

The swimming pool of the closed pool is 25 m long and 12 m wide, has a volume of 570 m² and was designed as a multi-purpose pool with an attached non-swimmer part. In addition to the recreational value, the hygienic aspect also played a role at the beginning of the operation. Only a few apartments at that time in Kassel had a bathtub and the indoor swimming pool east offered a corresponding range of "public bathtubs". The pool was used by schools for physical education and clubs as a training location. In the first year alone, the East Indoor Swimming Pool had 230,000 visitors.

During the Second World War , the bathing building was damaged by bombs, but it was put back into operation in 1949 after appropriate repairs. The indoor swimming pool got its name affix "East" when two more indoor swimming pools (Stadtbad Mitte in 1967 and Hallenbad Süd in 1971) were opened in Kassel. In the post-war period, a Finnish sauna , a log cabin sauna in the open-air area, a sanarium, plunge pool, solariums and relaxation rooms and a sunbathing area were modernized .

Since the number of visitors fell significantly from the mid-1990s onwards, because there was more of a need for wellness and adventure pools and the East indoor pool had to be extensively renovated, it was finally shut down in 2007 and the decision to build a new pool on Auedamm

Further use

After the building was sold, there were various plans to use it in the past, such as setting up a fitness studio, converting it into an "inventor's house" or converting it into part of an office complex. At the end of 2016, the municipal works announced that they were back in possession of the building and that they wanted to renovate it in 2017 in order to set up offices there. The construction work should be completed by mid-2018. However, the project was abandoned for unknown reasons and the building was sold in October to three Kassel architects who want to create additional office space in the building in addition to their architectural office.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conversion too expensive: Indoor swimming pool East remains in ruins , from January 20, 2011, on hna.de.
  2. ↑ New usage idea: “Inventor's House” in the East Indoor Pool , from January 4, 2014, on hna.de.
  3. ↑ Reconstruction plans for the East Indoor Pool are on hold from February 9, 2015, on hna.de.
  4. ↑ HNA: KVG gets offices in the East Indoor Pool: renovation will start in mid-2017 , accessed on December 20, 2016, on hna.de.
  5. ↑ Kassel: Schandfleck should go: Indoor swimming pool East in Kassel becomes an architecture office - Bettenhausen. In: hna.de. Retrieved November 2, 2018 .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 18 '35.4 "  N , 9 ° 31' 5.8"  E