Geiselweid swimming pool

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The swimming pool in 1955

The Geiselweid outdoor and indoor pool is a swimming pool in Winterthur . It is the oldest swimming pool in Winterthur and the oldest still in operation in Switzerland. The swimming pool's 900 m² natural pool is the largest in Switzerland.

In the 2010 summer season, the combined outdoor and indoor pool in Geiselweid, with 140,000 visitors, recorded almost the same number of visitors as the other four outdoor pools in Winterthur combined.

history

In March 1907, an initiative committee together with the then mayor Rudolf Geilinger called for the first time to become a member of the Geiselweid cooperative and to subscribe for shares worth CHF 100 (today that would be CHF 1,177), totaling a capital of 150,000 CHF together. This later had to be topped up by a further CHF 100,000, as the construction of the Geiselweid was 70,000 francs more expensive than planned. The corresponding cooperative was founded on September 25, 1908 in the Hotel Krone. The Winterthur industrialist Eduard Sulzer-Ziegler , who was also responsible for the construction, was an important supporter of the pool .

As early as 1909, the Rittmeyer / Furrer architects began building the outdoor swimming pool , and the swimming pool was finally opened on June 14, 1911. The swimming pool thus indirectly replaced the bathtub mosque that had existed since 1864 , the oldest indoor swimming pool in Switzerland, which was closed four years after the Geiselweid was completed. Within the first 100 days after opening, the outdoor pool registered a total of 62,088 entries. After its creation, the swimming pool of the outdoor swimming pool was the largest in Switzerland for a long time. At that time the swimming pool was still fed by the Eulach . As a result, the swimming pool had to be opened late in 1920 due to the poor water quality. It was found that the then still independent municipality of Oberwinterthur, contrary to other assurances, channeled wastewater from the sewage treatment plant and the station toilet directly into the Eulach, without the city knowing this. After that, the swimming pool was connected to the municipal water supply.

In 1932 the Geiselweid was expanded to include a school pool and new buildings: A grandstand - later popularly called the Affenfelsen - with a restaurant, club rooms, toilet facilities, enlarged cloakrooms and showers were new to the swimming pool. With this conversion with two separate cloakrooms, the previous gender segregation in Geiselweid was lifted. Before that, women could bathe until 11 a.m. and men afterwards. In 1939 a quay was built along the Eulach. In 1949 the filter and machine house was rebuilt and the large swimming pool renovated. A year later, the sanitary facilities were renovated and hot water showers were installed. In 1952 the swimming pool was expanded to include a playground and in 1960 the school pool was expanded.

When the Hofwil swimming pool was closed by the canton of Bern in 1971, the Geiselweid became the oldest open-air swimming pool in Switzerland that was still in operation. In 1974 the indoor pool was built next to the outdoor pool - before that, Winterthur had no indoor pool for a long time. After almost 70 years in the hands of the cooperative, the Geiselweid swimming pool became the property of the City of Winterthur in 1976. The indoor pool was renovated in 1998. In 2007/08 the outdoor pool was renovated, the larger pool was divided into two parts and the school pool was replaced by a large natural pool .

Sports

There are various clubs in the Geiselweid indoor pool. These include the Winterthur swimming club (which also provides the NLA water polo team for men and women), various swimming schools and other clubs.

Infrastructure

outdoor pool

  • 50 m swimmer pool
  • Non-swimmer pools
  • Adventure pool with a lazy river
  • Natural pool
  • Children's paddling pool
  • Slide
  • Play / sunbathing area
  • Beach volleyball field
  • Playground equipment / playground
  • Barbecue area

Indoor swimming pool

  • 50 m swimmer pool
  • Diving tower up to 5 meters
  • Non-swimmer pools
  • Paddling pool
  • Slide
  • Exercise room

photos

  • Construction of the indoor swimming pool

  • View from the "Affenfelsen" 1957

literature

  • Alexandre-Michel Hoster: The «Geisi» - the people of Winterthur who love it . In: Winterthurer yearbook 2008 . Edition Winterthur, Winterthur 2008, p. 38-43 .
  • Samuel Studer, Andres Betschart, Miguel Garcia, Alexandre-Michel Hoster, Peter Bachmann: Geiselweid swimming pool. 100 years of Winterthur history: Festschrift for the anniversary on June 14, 2011 . Mattenbach Verlag, Winterthur 2011.

Web links

Commons : Swimmingpool Geiselweid  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanna Vanek: More nature, please! In: communal magazine . July 31, 2008 ( press review in the Bäder-Revue 03-2008, page 44 [PDF; accessed on August 31, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Badi-Info: Geiselweid swimming pool. Retrieved July 5, 2010 .
  3. ↑ David Herter: More arguments in the indoor pool. In: The Landbote . September 11, 2010, p. 13.
  4. ↑ Badi-Info: History of Swiss swimming pools - a chronology. Retrieved July 5, 2010 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 29 ′ 43 "  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 33"  E ; CH1903:  698 248  /  two hundred sixty-one thousand three hundred and eighteen