Panorama Bad Stromberg

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Panorama Bad Stromberg

The Panorama-Bad Stromberg is a leisure pool in Stromberg (Hunsrück) with a year-round sauna area and connected restaurants.

investment

The heated swimming pool, which opened in 2011, is divided into a total of six areas: a 25-meter-long swimming pool, the year-round wellness pool, a diving pool with two diving towers (1 and 3 meters high), and a teaching, children's and adventure pool. In the edge area there is a 60 meter long water slide, some of which runs underground. The total water area is 624 m². Two Finnish saunas and a warming hall with access to the wellness pool are operated all year round. In the spacious outdoor area (37,148 m²) with a distant view, there are terraced sunbathing lawns, a beach volleyball field and a screened nudist area. A bistro with a viewing terrace is available to visitors in the catering area, which is accessible from outside even without visiting the swimming pool. Free parking spaces are available directly at the bathroom.

location

The panorama bath is located south above the town of Stromberg on a terraced hillside with a distant view of Soonwald , Stromburg , Gollenfels Castle and the medieval town center.

history

Before 1900, Stromberg only had sparse swimming pools, which were used for health purposes rather than sports. The owner of the Löwenzeiler Mühle guesthouse , Franz Kilian, ran a bathhouse that allowed "only a few strokes". Another bath house was maintained by the Weinzheimer'sche Bannmühle .

Stromberg has had a warm spring, the so-called warm well , whose soft water had a constant temperature of around 27 ° C throughout the year and a daily volume of around 320 m³. In 1922 Stromberg planned to build a public bath at the Warm Brunnen . However, after initial building drafts, the project was not pursued any further.

Already after the First World War , the Gebrüder Wandesleben GmbH gave permission to use their factory pond on Simmerner Strasse as a swimming pool. She revoked this permit in 1927 as a result of two fatal accidents.

Warmsrother Grund bathing establishment (1927–1940)

Warmsrother Grund bathing establishment, inauguration ceremony June 4, 1927

Two members of the Stromberg gymnastics and play club had bought a meadow on Welschbach in Warmsrother Grund and donated it to their club. By the summer of 1927, skilled workers and members of the association succeeded in building a swimming pool with financial support from the city of Stromberg, which consisted of a concrete pool that was fed with fresh water from the neighboring Welschbach. As part of a district gymnastics festival, the club handed the swimming pool over to its destination on June 4, 1927. Due to the increase in the number of guests at the nearby Kurhaus , the facility soon turned out to be too small. At Pentecost 1938, a Hitler Youth camp was built near the swimming pool with a population of around 1200 boys, but the planned swimming competitions did not take place due to the weather.

Major repairs were due before 1940, but due to the lack of materials, these could not be carried out due to the war. Furthermore, almost all members of the association were called up for the armed forces. As a result, the bathroom deteriorated. In 1940 the bathing facility was closed “because the bathing establishment was unusable”. As a result of the war, the population's interest in leisure activities waned.

Outdoor swimming pool (1962-2004)

Outdoor swimming pool, August 1962
Outdoor swimming pool, August 1962

Due to the increase in economic prosperity after the end of the Second World War and the increasing number of vacationers, the desire arose for a new swimming pool with the comfort of that time. Therefore, upgrading the dilapidated pool in Warmsrother Grund was no longer an option. The choice of the property fell on a meadow above the city on the southern edge of the forest, so that, in addition to a distant view, full sunlight could be guaranteed from morning to dusk. On December 14, 1959, the groundbreaking ceremony for the development of the site took place. After building costs of 575,745 DM, the newly built high-altitude outdoor pool with "ultra-modern hygienic and technical swimming achievements" was inaugurated on July 14, 1962. The facility consisted of a swimmer and non-swimmer pool, each 50 meters long, diving towers (1 and 3 meters), a slide and a children's pool. Above the lawns there was a small restaurant on a heaped plateau with a clear view. Changing rooms, offices, cash registers and sanitary facilities were housed in an elongated low-rise building, the technical operating rooms in the pool with a basement at the side. The swimming pool was operated with the Petunia process , according to which river waters are used and treated in order to produce "swimming water" in various stages. For this purpose, the approx. 27 ° C warm water from the warm well in the valley below the Gollenfelsen in the state road, where there was a pumping station especially for the swimming pool, was used. The water was pumped up to the pool via an approx. 500 m long pipe in order to be able to maintain a sufficient and constant water temperature in the swimming pool. After a few years of testing, this solution proved to be inadequate, which is why an electrical water heating system was installed in 1969, which allowed a permanent temperature of 23 ° C and was the first heated outdoor pool in the district.

Years of technically successful and safe operation followed. In 1978 the municipality of Stromberg took over the sponsorship of the city of Stromberg.

Outdoor swimming pool, August 1962

Increased energy costs and technical problems led to the shutdown of the electric water heating in 1995, which was replaced by a solar-powered system in the same year. From then on, the water circulated through a system of pipes on the roofs of the low-rise building and the small restaurant, which heated it up. Despite care and maintenance measures, the technology became increasingly obsolete. In 1997 there were plans to build an indoor swimming pool or fun pool in the Schindeldorf district , the opening of which was scheduled for 1998, but which were later not realized because the investor had withdrawn. Instead, the sponsor of the pool worked out redevelopment plans to convert it into a year-round pool at a cost of DM 7.2 million. In 2002 the water temperature of the warm well fell to only 18 ° C due to geological changes. In 2004, a screened nudist area was set up on part of the sunbathing lawn, which still exists today. In the same year the pouring of the warm well decreased from the previous approx. 250 m³ until it dried up. A hastily set up replacement supply from the drinking water network could not provide the amount necessary for operation. In addition, the performance of the circulation system was reduced due to broken pipes due to ailing technology from the 1960s. Since August 2004, the swimming pool had to reduce its opening times significantly until the swimming pool was closed completely for the rest of the season due to health concerns.

In the years that followed, the pool remained closed as it was no longer possible to operate with the ailing technology. A fundamental renovation would have been equivalent to a new building, so that ideas for building a year-round swimming pool matured. The question of whether a pool with a 50-meter lane or a smaller version should be included in the planning led to great controversy.

Panorama bath (since 2011)

Outdoor swimming pool before demolition, April 2009
Panorama-Bad construction site, July 2009

After long political debates, the decision was made to build an open-air swimming pool with year-round operation. The municipality of Stromberg founded a special purpose association to finance this. In 2009 the demolition of the old open-air swimming pool began. Only the foundations of some parts of the pool remained as a substructure for the new system. Architecture, engineering structures and outdoor facilities were planned by the architects' office Bremer + Bremer from Wetzlar, Weber & Martin from Gießen was responsible for the structural engineering and the technical building equipment was designed by the engineering office INCO from Aachen. The pool water is now supplied from the drinking water network instead of from the warm well via a newly constructed pipeline with sufficient capacity . The system is equipped to save energy with two gas condensing boilers of 60 kW each, a gas block-type thermal power station, a solar absorber system (530 m²), gas-fired sauna stoves and a heat-recovering ventilation system. In the dark, the pools can be illuminated using LED technology according to a color concept by the Bad Kreuznach artist Gernot Meyer-Grönhof . Meyer-Grönhof also designed decorative elements on the basins.

After a two-year construction period, the new panorama bathroom was inaugurated on May 13, 2011 as part of a large celebration and handed over to use.

Since September 2018, the Zweckverband has been disbanded as the operator and the swimming pool functions as an independent operation under the umbrella of the Verbandsgemeinde.

Web links

Commons : Panorama-Bad Stromberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Panoramabad Stromberg - engineering office INCO GmbH. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
  2. ^ Robert Schmitt: Stromberg. The city on the Soonwald. Self-published by Stadt Stromberg, 1971, p. 213 .
  3. ^ Robert Schmitt: Stromberg. The city on the Soonwald. Self-published by Stadt Stromberg, 1971, p. 5 .
  4. ^ Turn- und Spielverein Stromberg: Festival book for the 75th anniversary of the club . 1967, p. 27 .
  5. ↑ Evangelical school chronicle: annual chapter . S. 99 .
  6. ^ Rainer Seil: Chronicle of the city of Stromberg . Ed .: City of Stromberg. Self-published by Stadt Stromberg, 2002, p. 123 .
  7. ^ Turn- und Spielverein Stromberg: Festival book for the 75th anniversary of the club . 1967, p. 31 .
  8. ^ Robert Schmitt: Stromberg. The city on the Soonwald . Self-published by Stadt Stromberg, 1971, p. 214 .
  9. ^ Turn- und Spielverein Stromberg: Festival book for the 75th anniversary of the club . 1967, p. 57 .
  10. ^ Robert Schmitt: Stromberg. The city on the Soonwald. Self-published by Stadt Stromberg, 1971, p. 214 .
  11. ^ City of Stromberg: City Chronicle III . S. 142 f .
  12. ^ Rainer Seil: Chronicle of the city of Stromberg. Ed .: City of Stromberg. Self-published by Stadt Stromberg, 2002, p. 151 .
  13. ^ Robert Schmitt: Stromberg. The city on the Soonwald. Self-published by Stadt Stromberg, 1971, p. 209 .
  14. ^ Robert Weimer: Höhenfreibad has 40 years under its belt. Oeffentlicher Anzeiger (Rhein-Zeitung), May 18, 2002, accessed on April 27, 2019 .
  15. ^ Robert Weimer: Holiday park closed. New contracts in progress. In: Oeffentlicher Anzeiger (Rhein-Zeitung). March 25, 1997. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
  16. ^ Oeffentlicher Anzeiger (Rhein-Zeitung): Swimming pool renovations on ice. November 5, 1998. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Robert Weimer: Höhenfreibad is to be saved. In: Oeffentlicher Anzeiger (Rhein-Zeitung). April 21, 2004, accessed April 27, 2019 .
  18. ^ Robert Weimer: CDU Stromberg is thinking about building a new year-round pool. In: Oeffentlicher Anzeiger (Rhein-Zeitung). November 16, 2004, accessed April 27, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Panoramabad Stromberg - engineering office INCO GmbH. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .
  20. ↑ VRM GmbH & Co KG: Stromberger Panoramabad becomes self-operated - Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '29.1 "  N , 7 ° 46' 7.2"  E