Schenkenseebad
The Schenkenseebad in Schwäbisch Hall is a listed building as well as a modern indoor and outdoor pool.
Description and rating
The cloakroom building at Ellwanger Straße 2 was built in 1940 by Paul Bonatz and Friedrich Scholer as a single-storey wooden structure over 100 meters long, of which around a third of the total length is still preserved today.
As one of the few remaining architecturally sophisticated manifestations of the Third Reich in Baden-Württemberg, the building is of particular importance.
Today's Schenkenseebad
In 1968 the Schwäbisch Hall municipal council decided to build a new indoor swimming pool, which was inaugurated in 1973. Together with the outdoor pool, it was taken over by the Schwäbisch Hall municipal utility. In 1986 it was decided to expand it into a leisure pool (with a sauna area, new outdoor pool and water slide). At the beginning of the new millennium, it was finally turned into an adventure pool and new slides with sound and light effects and new outdoor pools. In 2005, 461,000 visitors were registered.
Trivia
In the novel Die Freibadclique (filmed in 2017) by Oliver Storz , published in 2008, the Schenkenseebad is the central hub. The novel accompanies five young people in the last months of Nazi Germany and after the end of the war.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Baden-Württemberg. Volume 1: Dagmar Zimdars among others: The administrative districts of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 1993, ISBN 3-422-03024-7 , p. 687.
- Alexandra Kaiser, Jens Wietschorke: cultural-historical city dictionary Schwäbisch Hall. Swiridoff Verlag, Künzelsau 2006
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 43.6 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 43.4" E