Swimming pool music club

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Swimming pool music club in Heidelberg (March 2007)

The pool Music Club was a nightclub in the Baden-Württemberg Wholesale and university city of Heidelberg . With the appearances of more than a thousand bands over several decades, the discotheque gained notoriety beyond the city limits of Heidelberg.

history

Performance of the sludge metal band High Fighter in the swimming pool club (November 2015)

The building was built in the 1950s and was originally a restaurant for the adjacent municipal outdoor pool, Tiergartenbad . From 1979, on the initiative of the Goldene Krone cultural center in Darmstadt , the four-storey building served as the space for the discotheque where up-and-coming bands made their debut . Under the management of restaurateur Günther Fanton († March 2004) and his nephew Gerhard Niedermair, who continued to operate the music club until spring 2008, the swimming pool music club was able to establish itself in the cultural nightlife of the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region in the course of the 1980s . Some rock bands had their first appearances there at a time when they were not yet known nationally or even internationally, including Die Fantastischen Vier (October 1992), Nirvana , Hole , Green Day (May 5, 1994), Liquido or Fury in the Slaughterhouse . Since club operator Gerhard Niedermair worked closely with a Dutch booking agency that looked after rock bands from the American record company Sub Pop for the European concert market, music groups under contract with this indie label such as The Afghan Whigs , Mudhoney , Soundgarden , The Walkabouts and the aforementioned played Grunge band Nirvana in the Palatinate music club. The concert room with a small stage held about 300 visitors. For the performance of Nirvana on November 15, 1989, the music club paid an artist fee of 800 D-Marks to the three-piece band.

End of use

Most recently, the building no longer withstood the fire protection regulations. In addition, extensive renovations would have been necessary, which Stadtwerke Heidelberg, as the owner of the building, could not finance. As a result, on December 31, 2015, the building was last used for the nightclub located there. As the last rock band before the closure, the Swabian heavy metal group Kissin 'Dynamite played in it on December 27, 2015 . The demolition of the main building was planned for the beginning of 2017, which was carried out in April and May 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Swimming pool music club: The last party evening - Heidelberg. In: morgenweb.de. Retrieved November 30, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Music magazine Slam-Zine , No. 16, Sept./Oct. 2004: "A touch of music history ... Location: Swimming pool Musik Club in Heidelberg" Club portrait by Christian Hoffmann. Slam Media GmbH (www.slam-zine.de), Vienna (Austria). P. 25
  3. ↑ When hip hop learned German - SPIEGEL ONLINE. In: spiegel.de. Retrieved November 30, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b The last memory disappears: Heidelberg swimming pool music club is demolished - news from Heidelberg - Rhein Neckar newspaper. In: rnz.de. Retrieved November 30, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Swimming Pool Music Club - Live Music Nightlife - Heidelberg - Cityguide - MAX. (No longer available online.) In: max.de. Archived from the original on December 1, 2016 ; accessed November 30, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.max.de
  6. ↑ Music magazine Slam-Zine , No. 16, Sept./Oct. 2004: "A touch of music history ... Location: Swimming pool Musik Club in Heidelberg" Club portrait by Christian Hoffmann. Slam Media GmbH (www.slam-zine.de), Vienna (Austria). P. 25

Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 12.7 "  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 26.2"  E