Kaifu bath

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Swimming pool Kaifu main building front
Kaifu building with side wing

The Kaifu-Bad is a public swimming pool in the Hamburg district of Eimsbüttel . It is located on the eastern bank of the Isebek Canal , which is also known as Kaiser-Friedrich-Ufer - Kaifu for short. The postal address and the main entrance are on Hohe Weide 15. The facility has been operated since 1995 by the municipal Bäderland Hamburg GmbH , whose head office is also located in the Kaifu-Bad. The facility consists of a hall complex and an outdoor area with various swimming pools and is a listed building .

Indoor swimming pool

The indoor swimming pool at the Hohen Weide with a floor space of about 120 × 40 m was built in 1893–1895 according to plans by the then chief engineer of the building deputation, Franz Andreas Meyer , as the Stadtbad Hohe Weide and in 1905/06 by his successor in office Franz Eduard Vermehren a second hall extended for women.

Since the renovation in 2015, the building has:

Outdoor area

Large outdoor Kaifu pool

Directly next to the swimming pool in the main building there is an outdoor pool heated to 25 ° C all year round with dimensions of 25 × 10 m and a sunbathing area of ​​about the same size at the same level.

On a deeper larger section of land is that of Konstanty Gutschow designed and opened in 1938 pool with

  • a sports pool with 8 marked competition lanes and the dimensions 50 × 20 m
  • a diving pool with dimensions of 30 × 20 m and diving boards with heights of 1 m, 3 m, 5 m and 10 m
  • a paddling pool with play equipment
  • an approximately 250 × 25 m lawn for sunbathing towards the Isebek Canal, delimited by a side entrance
  • On the other side of the sports swimming pool and the subsequent diving pool to the level of the main building, there are terraced, lawned and partly covered seating and lounging areas

Adjacent other facilities

  • Immediately adjacent to the north is the independent business fitness studio Kaifu-Lodge , from and to which visitors can switch directly in both directions.
  • Also in the north and separated from the Kaifu Lodge by an approx. 18 m wide strip of meadow and adjacent to the Isebek Canal, there is a 120-meter-long row of houses, which used to be the changing rooms and showers of the Kaifu bath. As of 2016, there is the independent Reha am Kaifu GmbH. The main entrance to the outdoor pool area was originally located next to the northern end of this building on the main road.
  • In the spaciously open access area to the Hohe Weide street are the buildings of the former Elim Hospital , which was fundamentally rebuilt in 2016 , today's Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum Hamburg, and a 1,500 m² sports hall, which was also built with the hospital in February 2014, is used by schools and the Eimsbütteler TV is used as operator, as well as the Kaifu medical center.
  • The registered office of Bäderland Hamburg GmbH is located directly next to the historic indoor swimming pool building at Weidenstieg 27.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments in the Eimsbüttel district. Monument Protection Office Hamburg , p. 221 (ID 18381) , accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Architect biographies
  3. ^ Jörg Schilling: Bathing establishments in Hamburg - a historical overview . In: Ohlsdorf outdoor pool. hamburger construction booklet 13, Hamburg 2016, p. 10.
  4. ↑ Matthias Schmoock: Superlative oasis of wellbeing in the middle of Eimsbüttel. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . December 11, 2015, accessed July 10, 2020 .
  5. ^ Rita Bake : Bathing in the home and in public. In: Water for Hamburg. On the history of the Hamburg water supply and disposal, Hamburg 1992, pp. 80–93, here p. 86.

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '14.9 "  N , 9 ° 57' 45"  E