Michaelibad
The Michaelibad is the largest leisure pool in Munich . It is located at Heinrich-Wieland-Straße 24 in the eastern Munich district of Neuperlach, directly on the Ostpark and gives the neighboring underground station its name.
history
The architects Richard Gall and Heinrich Hoffmann won the first competition for the design of the Michaelibad in east Munich in 1952 . Philipp Zametzer and Sebastian Rosenthal from the Munich city building authority were then commissioned to implement the project . Between 1953 and 1955 a leisure pool with five swimming pools, five changing rooms and a restaurant was built on the 66,300 m² area. The pavilion of the restaurant with the floating roof, which was apparently only supported by a pillar, not only became the symbol of the pool, but was also considered to be an example of the weightless architecture of the 1950s. When the Michaelibad underground station was built in 1973, the pavilion was demolished.
During the Olympic Games in 1972 , the Michaeli summer pool was a training facility for modern pentathletes in the swimming discipline. In the course of the preparations for the training facility, the 50-meter swimming pool was equipped with liner and new starting pedestals, and a new heated changing room and functional building (called "warm building") was added. In 1971 construction began on the new indoor swimming pool with sauna, which was opened to the public in 1973.
As part of the redesign of the pool, "after the opening in 1998, visitors were greeted by a completely new outdoor adventure pool with a 40-meter-long slide, flow channel, massage jets, neck shower and a water mushroom". In 2000, work began on converting the indoor pool into a modern leisure pool, which was then reopened in December 2001. The Michaelibad can be reached by underground and various bus lines operated by the Munich transport company .
Leisure activities
The Michaelibad, a summer and an indoor pool, offers both a large outdoor pool with a 64-meter slide and a large indoor pool. In the indoor pool area there is a 25-meter swimmer pool, a non-swimmer pool, a parent-toddler bathing oasis, smaller whirlpool tubs in which several people can sit, and a passage to a 34 ° hot water outdoor area that can also be used in winter . There is also an 84 m long adventure slide in the indoor pool . There is also a sauna area in the Michaelibad. A special feature here is the earth loft sauna, a special sweat room that is built from old Finnish kelo wood and dug into a mound.
Web links
- Information about the Michaelibad on the website of Stadtwerke München
Individual evidence
- ^ Winfried Nerdinger: Architecture of the child prodigies . Anton Pustet, Salzburg 2005, p. 192.
- ^ SWM Stadtwerke München: 1955-2005: 50 years of Michaelibad. Retrieved August 11, 2018 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ N , 11 ° 38 ′ 11 ″ E