Congress bath

The Kongressbad (colloquially Kongerl is called), a swimming pool in the 16th district of Vienna Ottakring , named after the conference place on which it simultaneously with the adjacent Kongresspark was built. Located on the border between Ottakring and Hernals , the Kongressbad was opened in 1928 as the most modern and largest artificial outdoor pool in Vienna - originally equipped with a 100-meter pool.

history

The pool was built on a former sand extraction site and garbage dump according to plans by Erich Franz Leischner . The bathroom was an infrastructural addition to the community buildings that were being built around it (such as the Sandleiten Hof). Parts of the building with its red-and-white-striped wooden structures are under monument protection . In 1981 the two-column 10-meter diving tower was torn down and with the general renovation (1987/88) the 100-meter pool was divided into a sports and an adventure pool.

On the night of April 20, 2008, an approximately 150 m² wooden wing in the northern part of the building caught fire as a result of arson and was severely damaged. The monumental entrance area on Julius-Meinl-Gasse, which is well worth seeing, was not affected by the fire.

It is only a few meters from the Hernals S-Bahn station .