Loessnitzbad

The Lößnitzbad is an approximately 22,000 square meter surrounded by greenery Stretch , who as a municipal since the 1950s pool is opened. It is located in the Naundorf district of the Saxon city of Radebeul , at Fabrikstrasse 47. On the site there is a sculpture of a young man , which was created by the sculptor Burkhart Ebe . In 2019 the Lößnitzbad is registered as an open bathing area , i.e. without bathing supervision .

Lößnitzbad (2012)

Entrance building

Plastic from Ebe

history

The Brickyard Hoeppner acquired in the years 1887 to 1907 a series of field plots between Fabrikstraße and Vierruthenweg to win there until 1918 Clay Bricks manufacturing. After the deposits were exhausted, gravel and sand were extracted from the previous clay pit to a depth of 12 meters, which was used, among other things, to build the Niederwartha pumped storage plant . The gravel pit had to be abandoned due to water ingress .

Since the establishment of a new municipal outdoor swimming pool had been planned since the 1930s, the city administration took the opportunity and confiscated the so-called Naundorf gravel pit in 1949 . In the period up to 1956, the city acquired the pit plots by means of land swaps. The development work had already begun in May 1949, largely by volunteers, and on July 1, 1951, the swimming pool was opened.

The Lößnitz swimming festival has been taking place in the Lößnitzbad since 1982, followed by a winter swimming festival in 1989.

The 2-hectare still water is also the fishing water of the local Radebeul fishing club . Since bathers and anglers share the same body of water, fishing is only possible outside of the bathing opening times during the bathing season.

Immediately to the south, on the other side of the Vierruthenweg, the Radebeul part of the Elbe Valley landscape protection area joins between Dresden and Meißen with valleys on the left bank of the Elbe and the Spaar Mountains .

literature

• Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .

Web links

Commons : Lößnitzbad  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website: The Lößnitzbad
• Angelclub eV Radebeul - waters
• Location of the pool with the adjoining landscape protection area to the south (up to the Elbe) at OpenStreetMap

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Saxon protected areas at the SMUL , accessed on June 21, 2012.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 19 ″  N , 13 ° 36 ′ 30 ″  E