Ingierstrand bath
Ingierstrand Bad is a seaside resort on the east bank of the Bunnefjord in the municipality of Nordre Follo in Fylke Viken , southeast of Oslo , Norway .
history
Before public swimming pools were built in Norway in the 19th century, many Norwegians bathed outdoors on wild beaches and seaside resorts in the fjords, some of them separated by gender behind canvas curtains they had made themselves. The first public baths in Norway were mostly financed and operated by wealthy private individuals. The new outdoor pools, in contrast to the wild bathing possibilities, were in a state of perceived cleanliness and were set up taking hygienic and health aspects into account. In Norway in the 1920s and 1930s, recreational activities, recreation and sport were very popular in Norway.
The area of today's Ingierstrand Bad was previously used as a wild bathing resort. The wealthy Ingier family took on the matter of building a public beach in Oppegård . The construction of the Ingierstrand Bad was intended to meet the recreational needs of the Norwegian population. In 1931 she commissioned the architects Ole Lind Schistad and Eivind Moestue to build the Ingierstrand baths. According to the ideas of the time, the new open-air swimming pool should offer much more than ordinary free bathing beaches. The entire facility was built in the style of functionalism . In this way, according to the architects' ideas, the bath should deliberately represent modern times, as well as the similar bathing facilities built at the same time on Hvalstrand in Asker and on Sundøya by the Tyrifjord .
In their planning, the architects set themselves the goal of adapting the buildings on the hilly terrain to the landscape as much as possible. The first construction phase was completed in 1933. After that, the facility consisted of a diving platform, a changing room pavilion and an open-air café as well as an administration building. The second stage was completed the following year: a restaurant and a central kiosk were added to the facility. Due to its extensive range and its innovations, the bathroom was very quickly accepted by many nature-loving capital city residents and immediate residents and received almost consistently positive feedback.
The Ingierstrand Bad and the Hvalstrand Bad , which was completed almost at the same time, were the most important public baths on the Oslofjord since the interwar period and in the first decades of the post-war period . At its peak, the pool had around 120,000 paying visitors per season. After the opening, a ferry line was used from Oslo city center to Ingierstrand Bad during the summer season. This connection was later abandoned, however.
After the last construction phase of the baths was completed from spring to August 1934, the daily Aftenposten wrote : "A new bathing establishment is being built here in a dimension previously unknown to Norway".
In 1936 the 2700 hectare area of Ingierstrand Bad was sold to the Oslo municipality for 1.8 million crowns . The pool area today includes a restaurant, a dance stage and several changing rooms, a diving tower, a slide and a parking lot for 150 cars. The complex was placed under protection as cultural heritage in 2012 by the Riksantikvaren (Reich archivist).
literature
- E. Mostue and OL Schistad: "Ingierstrand bad" in Byggekunst . Oslo 1933
- Lars Aarønæs and Jiri Havran: Norsk funkis; 240 p. Stenersens forlag, Oslo 2007. ISBN 9788272014352
Web links
- Ingierstrand in the store norske leksikon
- Ingierstrand Bad on Lokalhistoriewiki.no
- «Riksantikvaren.no with the Ingierstrand bad»
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aftenposten : newspaper archive on eavis.aftenposten.no , Title: OSLO RUNDT XVI. INGIERSTRAND BAD BLÅTT from August 11, 1934, accessed on May 2, 2013 (Norwegian)
Coordinates: 59 ° 49 ' N , 10 ° 45' E