Schallacker
The Schallacker was an outdoor swimming pool in the Hörde district of Dortmund from 1935 to 1993 . The name of the bath referred to a street called Am Schallacker in the immediate vicinity of the bath . The meaning of the word "Schallacker" is unclear.
Before building
The property on which the outdoor swimming pool was located was acquired by the businessman and manufacturer Hermann Dietrich Piepenstock in 1839 when he bought the Hörder Castle and the land belonging to the castle complex to build a puddle and rolling mill . He founded the Hermannshütte in Hörde , which would later become a central part of the Hörder mining and smelting association . Narrowed by the tracks of the Bergisch-Märkischen-Eisenbahn and by the connecting road of the company's own transport line from the blast furnaces to the steelworks, a corner plot was created, which is shown in a cadastral plan from 1881 as "Farmland of the Hörder Verein". This plot of land was chosen as the location for the outdoor swimming pool.
The health-promoting effect of sulfur baths in rheumatic diseases and diseases of the respiratory tract was known. Investigations of the extinguishing water, which accrued during the slag granulation, showed a higher content of hydrogen sulfide than the strongest sulfur source in Bad Eilsen . The idea of building a bathhouse with a swimming pool using the sulfur-containing slag water, the so-called slag bath , was born.
Financing and construction
On January 5th, the director of the Dortmund-Hörder Hüttenverein, Dr. Brettschneider, the amount of 11,500 Reichsmarks for the construction of a bath complex. Since this amount of money did not appear to be sufficient for the construction project, the sports and gymnastics club Hörder Verein 1929 eV became active under the leadership of the then chairman Adolf Schmidt and achieved an increase in the amount of money to a total of 27,800 Reichsmarks. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on July 16, 1934. In order to be able to carry out the construction project with the limited financial resources, numerous volunteers contributed their labor free of charge. The building shell was accepted almost seven months after the first groundbreaking on February 12, 1935. Exactly three months later, on May 12, 1935, the bath was opened to the public with an inauguration event organized by the TsV Hörder Verein . A swimming pool measuring 25 meters by 12.50 meters, a pool complex with four bathtubs as well as changing and relaxation rooms were built. The tub bathrooms were very busy. More than 20 statutory health insurances have prescribed medicinal baths in the sulfur-containing Hörder slag water for their members suffering from gout and rheumatism. The capacity of the pool department had already reached its limit after the first season, so that it was regretted that only four bath tubs had been built. Plans were made to expand the pool department. The outdoor pool was also very popular with the population. In the years from 1935 to 1938, a good 23,000 baths were administered and the swimming pool counted over 140,000 visitors.
War, reconstruction and modernization
In 1944, shortly before the end of the Second World War , aircraft bombs hit the swimming pool, bathing area and the neighboring sports field. The pools of the bathing department were partially completely destroyed and not rebuilt after the end of the war. This meant the end of the pool operation. The pool cracked during the attack and water seeped into the ground. Thus, swimming also came to a standstill. Since the tar containers of the coking plant became unusable due to the bombing and during this time economic construction was rated higher than leisure time enjoyment , the basin initially served as a replacement container for the tar. The bath was closed from 1945 to 1949. On May 22, 1947, the ironworks submitted an application for the repair of the plant. After the tar and the bomb damage had been removed, swimming pool operations could be resumed in 1950. As a small replacement for the baths that were destroyed in the war, a basin measuring 12 meters by 2 meters was built, in which hot, sulphurous water could be let into a maximum height of 30 centimeters. The vernacular called the basin sprat box . After the slag granulation had ceased, there was no longer any sulphurous water available. Instead, heated Ruhr water was used .
After the merger of the three steel-producing Dortmund companies, Hoesch Westfalenhütte and the Union and Phoenix plants of Dortmund Hörder Hüttenunion to form Hoesch Hüttenwerke AG, extensive modernizations were carried out. In order to stop the war-related water losses through fine cracks in the concrete, the pool was completely lined with a special swimming pool foil. The toilet facilities were renewed and a hot water shower system was installed. Another small basin was created in front of the "sprat box". With the help of a new circulation system, the temperature of the main basin was more efficient.
The swimming pool was extremely popular with the population, although it was not particularly idyllic, within sight of the Phoenix West blast furnace , and flanked by mighty furnace gas pipelines.
Decommissioning and reuse
The end of the bathing business was initiated in 1993. The city of Dortmund announced that it would stop the annual subsidies from now on. The owner, at that time the Hoesch Hüttenwerke AG, described the facility, which had become ailing and in need of renovation over the years, as a "bottomless pit". In 1993 the facility was initially closed for bathing. An initiative by volunteers renovated the bathroom on their own and hoped to reopen in 1994. Due to insurmountable conditions, the reopening did not take place. The bathroom was first converted into a beach volleyball facility. Then the area was used by a dog school. Since April 1, 2014 the association "Integrative Generations Garden on Marksbach" has been the new tenant. In cooperation with Hörder citizens and the Querbeet Hörde project, a community garden is to be created at this point.
List of swimming masters
- 1935-1937 Emil Fehsel
- 1937 - 1938 Alfons Tollig
- 1939 - 1941 Emil Kauth
- 1941 - 1943 Julius Pusch
- 1943-1944 Anne Breker
- 1950 - 1952 Kurt Fiedler
- 1950 - 1952 Erna Döring
- 1952 - 1954 Walter Petereit
- 1953 - 1979 Fritz Ehrlichmann
- 1954 - 1956 Rolf Falkenreck
- 1957 - 1978 Paul Alberternst
- 1978 -? Klaus Dreher
- 1980 -? Günter Geisler
swell
- Special issue: 50 years of Schallacker-Bad Hörde. Factory print shop Hoesch Stahl AG, 1985, without ISBN
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://home.fotocommunity.de/sascha.braun/index.php?id=8644&d=1101344
- ↑ http://urbaneoasen.de/2014/04/28/ab-mai-wird-in-hoerde-im-ehemaligen-freibad-gemeinschaftlich-gegaertnert/
Web links
- Schallacker outdoor pool on photo community , accessed on June 23, 2013
- Chronicle of the DLRG local group Hörde with photos from the bath , accessed on May 3, 2014.
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 21.7 " N , 7 ° 29 ′ 30.7" E