Kreuzsteinbad

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Kreuzsteinbad: swimming pool and diving pool with 10 m diving tower

The Kreuzsteinbad is the largest public outdoor pool in Bayreuth . It is operated by the Bayreuth municipal utility .

Location and naming

The bathing establishment is located on the eastern edge of the Birken district , south of Universitätsstrasse, near the university and the municipal youth hostel . It is named after the 16th century cross stone at Nürnberger Straße 5 . It was placed as a memorial stone to commemorate a murdered person at the crime scene. Not far from there, on the railway line to Hollfeld and Thurnau , the now defunct Kreuzstein railway station was opened in 1904. The nearby Glasenweiher is also known as the “Kreuzsteinweiher”.

history

The Kreuzstein on Nürnberger Strasse

The forerunner of the Kreuzsteinbad was the Lange Weiher fed by the Sendelbach . In March 1831, the water body owned by the city was set up as a swimming facility for the local garrison. In 1883 the now separated deeper western part of the pond was given to the military free of charge until 1923.

After the contract expired, the Bayreuth swimming club, founded in 1921, was able to enter into a nearly 40-year lease with the city. The former military swimming pond was cleared of mud and a sandstone wall was created to delimit the pool. The “swimming school”, as the pool was called from then on, existed in this form until 1962 and still received the water from a preheating pond from the Sendelbach. In the 1950s, a tiled non-swimmer pool was cut off on the southern edge of the large pool, which was retained when the Kreuzsteinbad was built.

After the 1962 season, the lease between the city and the swimming club ended. During a closure in 1963, the swimming school was extensively rebuilt and reopened on May 14, 1964 as the municipal Kreuzsteinbad. With its four pools and a 10-meter diving platform, it was the most modern and largest outdoor pool in the region. The pool for non-swimmers has a children's slide at the lower end. In the 1968 season, the water was heated for the first time - via a temporary district heating pipe and a heat exchanger.

Current situation

In the course of extensive renovation measures in the second half of the 1990s, the non-swimmer pool was torn down and replaced by a wave pool with an imaginative floor plan. There are also gargoyles, flood showers, bubbling bays and an island. The simple children's slide has been replaced by an 85-meter-long winding large slide, and the pool for young children has been moved and rebuilt larger. The square diving pool and the 50-meter swimming pool have been preserved.

The buildings, some of which are now used as table tennis rooms for the changing rooms and the kiosk, still exist. The lawns were extended to the southeast. In 2014 Hall B was converted to accommodate staff rooms, sanitary facilities, changing rooms and lockers. For the 2016 season, the entrance and checkout area was modernized and redesigned to be barrier-free. The water is heated in an environmentally friendly way. The operator is Stadtwerke Bayreuth Verkehr und Bäder GmbH, which is owned by the City of Bayreuth.

The swimming season lasts an average of 120 days a year. The basins hold 5500 cubic meters of water, of which 1600 cubic meters are treated to drinking water quality every hour. The costs for electricity, gas and water averaged 1200 euros per opening day in 2014. On hot days, up to four cubic meters of residual waste is generated. On June 18, 2002 a visitor record was set with 7818 bathers, in the 2015 season approx. 155,000 visitors were counted,

The total area of ​​the Kreuzsteinbad is approx. 42,000 square meters, of which around 3,000 square meters are water areas and 24,000 square meters are lawns and play areas. The previous record of 7818 bathers was reached on June 18, 2002.

  • Entrance to the Kreuzsteinbad before the redesign

  • Company entrance with slide and diving platform

  • Sunbathing lawn and play areas

Sporting events

  • 1964: International competition in art and high diving Bavaria - Slovenia
  • July 1966: Two days of international competition in swimming, jumping and water polo Germany - Great Britain. The British were superior in almost all disciplines, one of the few German victories was over 100 meters freestyle .
  • 1969: Bavarian Swimming Championships

Attractions

On July 20, 2019, the Kreuzsteinbad invited to the "Fun Day" for the first time. With free admission there was until 8:30 p.m. a. Trial diving, stand-up paddling, canoeing, balancing on the slackline, costume jumping and a play mobile as well as food and bar trucks.

At the end of the season there is a "dog bathing day", on September 14, 2015 the bath was opened for dogs for the first time.

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Herterich : In the southeast of Bayreuth . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 2000, ISBN 3-925361-38-3 , p. 122 .
  2. ↑ a b City map of Bayreuth as of May 1, 1947; Nenninger, Bayreuth
  3. ↑ Kurt Herterich, op. Cit. , P. 111.
  4. ↑ a b Kurt Herterich, op. Cit. , P. 112.
  5. ↑ 50 years ago: Kreuzsteinbad is heated in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from April 26, 2018, p. 12.
  6. ↑ Eric Waha: Bayreuth: The cruiser turns 50. In: Nordbayerischer Kurier. Laurent Fischer, accessed June 1, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Peter Engelbrecht : Free entry to the Kreuzsteinbad on weekends. (No longer available online.) In: Nordbayerischer Kurier. Laurent Fischer, July 27, 2014, archived from the original ; accessed on June 1, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Kreuzsteinbad opens on May 14th. Stadtwerke Bayreuth, May 3, 2016, accessed on June 1, 2018 .
  9. ↑ http://www.stadtwerke-bayreuth.de/baeder-wellness/kreuzsteinbad-bayreuth/rundgang-anfahrt/
  10. ↑ Sunbathers, standing swimmers and athletes. In: Nordbayerischer Kurier, July 11, 2015, p. 18.
  11. ↑ Sunny numbers in the Kreuzsteinbad. In: Nordbayerischer Kurier, September 14, 2015. p. 8.
  12. ↑ Get into the water! In: Nordbayerischer Kurier, May 11, 2016, p. 18.
  13. ↑ Kreuzsteinbad hunting record in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from 29./30. June 2019, p. 15.
  14. ↑ 50 years ago. In: Nordbayerischer Kurier, July 11, 2016, p. 10.
  15. ↑ Spiderman meets mermaid in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from July 22, 2019, p. 7.
  16. ↑ North Bavarian Courier from 15./16. September 2018, p. 11.
  17. ↑ The first day of dog bathing in the Kreuzsteinbad. In: Nordbayerischer Kurier, September 15, 2015, p. 9.

Coordinates: 49 ° 56 ′ 1.8 ″  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 12.8 ″  E