Swimming and diving hall in the Europa Sportpark

Exterior view of the west side

In the swimming competition hall

The swimming and diving hall in the Europa Sportpark ( SSE ) is an indoor swimming pool in Berlin and the venue for many national and international competitions. It is located on Landsberger Allee in the Prenzlauer Berg district in the Pankow district in the immediate vicinity of the Velodrom . From the Landsberger Allee S-Bahn station there is an underpass to the building. The hall has a regular capacity of 2,500 spectators, with additional stands for up to 4,000 people. With a water surface of 3391 m² it is the largest swimming pool in Europe.

history

The swimming and diving hall was designed together with the Velodrom in 1992 by the French architect Dominique Perrault on the occasion of Berlin's application for the 2000 Olympic Games . Construction began in June 1993, three months before the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided in favor of Sydney . The former Landsberger Allee freight yard and the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle were demolished for the construction . In 1999 the two-part swimming and diving hall was opened.

The velodrome and the swimming and diving hall are next to each other and are almost completely sunk into a heaped landscape plinth, so that there are no faces or facades. The roof plate constructions, clad with wooden panels, protrude as flat panes one meter from the park-like plateau planted with apple trees. Outside stairs lead down through this area to the entrances.

At the end of 2003, the hall was expanded to include a sludge water treatment plant, with which its operator, the Berlin baths companies , could combine environmental protection and cost savings. According to the operator, more than 550,000 visitors (as of 2006) use the swimming pool every year.

The swimming and diving hall is part of the federal water diving base and the two state performance centers for swimming and diving .

Furnishing

Innovations that are considered exemplary internationally were introduced into the construction of the swimming and diving hall. The equipment includes:

• a competition pool with a mobile turning bridge (50 × 25 × 3 m)
• a swimming pool (50 × 25 x 2.1m) with variable water depth (0.3 - 2.1m)
• a diving pool (21 × 25 × 5 m)
• a double diving tower with single platforms at 3 m and 7.5 m and double platforms for synchronized jumping at 5 m and 10 m, 3 x 3 m boards, 4 x 1 m boards, a height-adjustable board (1 m - 5 m)
• a teaching pool (16 × 6 m)
• a therapy pool with variable water depth (9 × 5 m)
• two paddling pools / children's and toddler pools (5 × 5 m)
• a warm-up pool / hot tub (1.50 × 2 m)

Further equipment is a dry jumping facility, a gym, a weight room, a sales room for sporting goods and a bistro .

Events

Since its opening, the swimming and diving hall has hosted many national and international swimming competitions, such as the ISM (International Swim Meetings) or the FINA Swimming World Cup . The 2002 European Swimming Championships took place there from July 25th to August 4th, 2002 . In 2000 it was and has been the venue for the German Swimming Championships since 2004 . The German year swimming championships also take place regularly in this swimming pool. The facility is primarily used by swimmers and jumpers, but in 2007 the men's world league final in water polo also took place here. From August 13th to 24th, 2014, the SSE was the venue for diving and synchronized swimmers at the 2014 European Swimming Championships .

On November 26, 2005, the TV total high diving initiated by Stefan Raab took place in the SSE . After a break of several years, the FINA Swimming World Cup will take place again in the SSE in summer 2016 .

Swimming world records

Swim world records achieved in the SSE

discipline	athlete	nation	time	date	Note
100 m back	Lenny Krayzelburg	United States	00: 51.28	February 5, 2000	Short course
200 m back	Lenny Krayzelburg	United States	01: 52.43	February 6, 2000	Short course
200 m freestyle	Ian Thorpe	Australia	01: 41.10	February 6, 2000	Short course
50 m back	Sandra Völker	Germany	00: 28.25	June 17, 2000
200 m back	Gordan Kožulj	Croatia	01: 51.62	January 21, 2001	Short course
100 m butterfly	Martina Moravcová	Slovakia	00: 56.55	January 26, 2002	Short course
50 m chest	Oleh Lissohor	Ukraine	00: 26.20	January 26, 2002	Short course
200 m chest	Ed Moses	United States	02: 03.17	January 26, 2002	Short course
50 m butterfly	Geoff Huegill	Australia	00: 22.74	January 26, 2002	Short course
50 m chest	Zoe Baker	United Kingdom	00: 30.31	January 27, 2002	Short course
100 m butterfly	Thomas Rupprath	Germany	00: 50.11	January 27, 2002	Short course
4 × 100 m freestyle	Katrin Meißner Petra Dallmann Sandra Völker Franziska van Almsick	Germany	03: 36.00	July 29, 2002
50 m butterfly	Anna-Karin Kammerling	Sweden	00: 25.57	July 30, 2002
50 m chest	Oleh Lissohor	Ukraine	00: 27.18	August 2, 2002
200 m freestyle	Franziska van Almsick	Germany	01: 56.64	August 3, 2002
200 m butterfly	Otylia Jędrzejczak	Poland	02: 05.78	August 4, 2002
100 m layers	Thomas Rupprath	Germany	00: 52.58	January 25, 2003	Short course
400 m freestyle	Lindsay Benko	United States	03: 59.53	January 26, 2003
200 m chest	Ed Moses	United States	02: 02.92	January 17, 2004	Short course
200 m butterfly	Yang Yu	People's Republic of China	02: 04.04	January 18, 2004	Short course
100 m layers	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	00: 51.11	January 22, 2005	Short course
100 m freestyle	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	00: 46.25	January 22, 2005	Short course
50 m back	Janine Pietsch	Germany	00: 28.19	May 25, 2005
50 m chest	Oleh Lissohor	Ukraine	00: 26.17	January 21, 2006	Short course
50 m freestyle	Marleen Veldhuis	Netherlands	00: 23.58	November 17, 2007	Short course
100 m freestyle	Stefan Nystrand	Sweden	00: 45.83	November 17, 2007	Short course
50 m freestyle	Stefan Nystrand	Sweden	00: 20.93	November 18, 2007	Short course
200 m layers	Thiago Pereira	Brazil	01: 53.14	November 18, 2007	Short course
100 m back	Peter Marshall	United States	00: 49.63	November 15, 2008	Short course
200 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann	Germany	01: 40.83	November 16, 2008	Short course
50 m back	Randall Bal	United States	00: 22.87	November 16, 2008	Short course
50 m butterfly	Marieke Guehrer	Australia	00: 24.99	November 16, 2008	Short course
100 m freestyle	Britta Steffen	Germany	00: 52.85	June 25, 2009
50 m back	Daniela Samulski	Germany	00: 27.61	June 26, 2009
100 m freestyle	Britta Steffen	Germany	00: 52.56	June 27, 2009
50 m chest	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	00: 25.25	November 14, 2009	Short course
100 m chest	Leisel Jones	Australia	01: 03.00	November 14, 2009	Short course
400 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann	Germany	03: 32.77	November 14, 2009	Short course
200 m back	Shiho Sakai	Japan	02: 00.18	November 14, 2009	Short course
100 m layers	Sergei Fessikov	Russia	00: 50.95	November 14, 2009	Short course
50 m butterfly	Steffen Deibler	Germany	00: 21.80	November 14, 2009	Short course
200 m freestyle	Paul Biedermann	Germany	01: 39.37	November 15, 2009	Short course
50 m chest	Jessica Hardy	United States	00: 28.80	November 15, 2009	Short course
100 m chest	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	00: 55.61	November 15, 2009	Short course
100 m butterfly	Yevgeny Korotishkin	Russia	00: 48.48	November 15, 2009	Short course
100 m back	Shiho Sakai	Japan	00: 55.23	November 15, 2009	Short course
200 m freestyle	Liu Zige	People's Republic of China	02: 00.78	November 15, 2009	Short course
200 m layers	Darian Townsend	South Africa	01: 51.55	November 15, 2009	Short course
200 m chest	Leisel Jones	Australia	02: 15.42	November 15, 2009	Short course
100 m layers	Hinkelien Schreuder	Netherlands	00: 57.74	November 15, 2009	Short course
200 m back	Arkady Vyatchanin	Russia	01: 46.11	November 15, 2009	Short course

Web links

Commons : Velodrom and swimming and diving hall in Berlin  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Page of the swimming pool on the website of the Berliner Bäder Betriebe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Information brochure of the Berlin baths companies, Berlin baths as photo and film locations , from December 13, 2006 

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 45.1 ″  N , 13 ° 27 ′ 9.6 ″  E