Parkbad (Gütersloh)
| Park pool | |
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 The "largest paddling pool in East Westphalia" |
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| Data | |
| place |
 Germany
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| builder | Paul Heidrich, Bielefeld |
| Construction year | 1927/28 |
| Floor space | Property 18,405, built 885 m² |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 53 '48.4 " N , 8 ° 24' 0.4" E |
| particularities | |
| Gütersloh monument since 1992 | |
The Parkbad is an air bath with a small children's pool in the Sundern district of the East Westphalian district town of Gütersloh and is part of the Gütersloh City Park . The former open-air swimming pool on the Dalke was built in 1927/28 and added to the list of architectural monuments in Gütersloh in 1992 under the number A194 .
The former swimming pool was filled in 1995 to a maximum water depth of 30 centimeters. The bath, which has been operated by the tenant Franz-Josef Füchtenschnieder from Münster since May 1, 2015 , is open between May and September. Entry is free.
Equipment and events
In addition to the large paddling pool and a restaurant, leisure activities u. a. Beach volleyball fields, table tennis tables , children's trampolines and a low rope course are available.
The main building and the outdoor area now also serve as a venue for concerts, flea markets, artisan and farmers' markets, cinema screenings and public viewings . The hall in the main building can be rented for events and celebrations.
history
In 1925 the association "Parkbad Gütersloh eV" was brought into being, which operated the later pool until it was taken over by the city of Gütersloh in the summer of 1942. The two entrepreneurs and later honorary citizens of the city, Eduard Wolf and Carl Miele, were among the board members . The pool was largely financed by donations from companies based in Gütersloh.
In May 1927, the association began building the park pool opposite Avenstroth's mill on the Dalke. An elongated, 41 × 21 meter large hall ( plastered building under flat roof ) with a central skylight and a strict facade structure with ribbon windows was created in steel frame construction . In terms of architecture, the clear, objective structure of the building is based on the ideas of the Bauhaus and the Werkbund . The 50 meter long water basin was divided into a 12 meter wide non-swimmer area and an 18 meter wide swimmer area by a catwalk. The entire basin was and is framed by a 1.20 meter wide foot flushing channel.
The bath was opened on June 2, 1928. The pool was fed with water from the Dalke through a filter system. In the warm summer of 1929, more than 80,000 bathers visited the new outdoor pool.
After the end of the Second World War, the British military administration confiscated the site and only released it temporarily for use again in 1950, and then for unrestricted use in 1956.
The internal visitor record was set in the summer of 1967 with 125,870 bathers. With the indoor pool built in 1960 and the Nordbad, an outdoor pool, opened in 1971, the park pool faced modern competition, which resulted in a decline in visitors and an investment backlog. An expert report in 1977 confirmed that the facility was in poor structural condition. The cost of renovation was estimated at 8 million Deutschmarks. In 1986 the sports committee of the city of Gütersloh refused to keep the pool. With the construction of the wave and leisure pool Die Welle , only a few hundred meters away, the end of regular swimming was sealed after 63 years. In the last season in 1991, the bath counted 41,191 visitors.
With the closure, a fierce dispute began between the city of Gütersloh and the Westphalian Office for Monument Preservation, located in Münster (today: LWL Monument Preservation, Landscape and Building Culture in Westphalia ) about the worthiness of the park pool as a monument. While the preservation authorities determined that it was worthy of protection, the city declined to preserve the pool for reasons of cost. Since no amicable solution could be found, the Minister for Urban Development and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia Franz-Josef Kniola ordered the registration of the park pool, consisting of the bathing hall, swimming pool, the surrounding footwashers and the green area, in a decree on March 25, 1992 the list of monuments. This took place on July 10, 1992.
Contrary to the first plans, which had envisaged a complete filling of the swimming pool, the city decided at the end of 1994 to fill the swimming pool in the following year only enough to create a water play area with a water depth of 10 to 30 cm. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia contributed 80 percent to the renovation of the pool, which cost 4.1 million Deutschmarks.
On the Open Monument Day in 1997, the park pool was opened to the public for the first time. In 1998 the Gütersloh unemployment self-help (ASH) signed a lease to operate the park pool. On May 1, 1998, swimming and paddling was officially resumed. Since then, the Parkbad has been open every year from May 1st to the end of September.
In the course of time, some play areas were created around the lawn, most recently in 2010 a low ropes course costing 12,000 euros. After running the Parkbad for 17 years, the unemployed self-help decided against renewing the existing lease in the summer of 2014.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ New tenant takes over the Parkbad. In: The bell . March 20, 2015, accessed the same day.
- ↑ City is looking for tenants for the Parkbad - unemployed self-help will not extend operator contract in May. In: New Westphalian . August 19, 2014, accessed March 20, 2015.