Sea dam bath
The Seedammbad is the city-owned swimming pool of the city Bad Homburg . It is located in the district of Gonzenheim am Kurpark opposite the Taunus-Therme and next to the district court and the Kaiserin-Friedrich-Gymnasium .
The Seedammbad was built in 1927. The Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe took over the facility in 1941. Stadtwerke invested around 6.1 million euros in the Seedammbad.
The head of the pool is Gerd Buschendorf.
The offer of the Seedammbad includes eleven different swimming pools with 2553 square meters of water. Furthermore, a sauna , a 36,000 square meter sunbathing area in summer, a nudist area in summer and various spa programs are available to visitors.
history
In 1926, 16 Bad Homburg citizens formed an initiative to build a swimming pool and lido. The Seedammbad-Gesellschaft mbH was founded on December 1, 1926 . Until then, the only bathing facilities in Bad Homburg were the Forellenteich forest pool in Dornholzhausen and the Otto am Gluckenstein gardening facility, which became insolvent during the inflationary years. The city made the property on Seedammweg available and contributed 100,000 Reichsmarks to the construction costs of 270,000 Reichsmarks through a loan . The groundbreaking ceremony took place on February 14, 1927 and the opening on May 15 of the same year. The almost 17,000 square meter property offered enough space for the 50 × 35 meter pool (divided into an area each for non-swimmers, swimmers and athletes as well as restaurants and changing buildings). The 3600 cubic meters of water in the basin had natural heating, as 10 percent of the water came from the 22 degree warm water of the Viktoria Luise fountain.
On May 15, 1927, the Bad Homburg Swimming Club and the local branch of the German Life Rescue Society (DLRG) were founded. The first director of the swimming pool was Hermann Seebohm.
The bathroom was not an economic success. Even if a water slide was installed for the first time in 1930 and the pool was praised as the most modern in the wide area: As a result of the global economic crisis (the annual report also refers to the bad weather) the number of users fell from 67,000 in 1929 to 35,000 in 1931. On July 1st In 1935 bankruptcy proceedings were initiated. Even if this was stopped two years later by concessions from the creditors, cost recovery was out of the question. In 1942, the city of Bad Homburg therefore took over the bath and transferred the operation to the municipal utilities.
In 1945 the bath was confiscated by the American occupation forces and returned to the city in 1948. Now the bathroom was leaking and could not be used. With funds from the license fee of the Bad Homburg casino , the pool was renovated and reopened on May 18, 1950. New were a children's pool with a slide, a playground with a sandpit and the Seedammbad bazaar , a sales stand for bath products. The outdoor pool counted between 150,000 and 200,000 visitors in the fifties and sixties. The day ticket cost 50 pfennings for adults (131 cents in today's purchasing power), 30 pfennings for young people and 20 pfennigs for school children (annual tickets 10, 5 and 3 German marks ).
In the mid-1950s, an indoor pool initiative was formed that campaigned for the Seedammbad to be expanded as an indoor pool . In 1959, the city parliament awarded a test contract to the magistrate to test a location for an indoor swimming pool. After the administration preferred the location of the Seedambad, a decision of principle was made in 1962 by the city council. Mayor Armin Klein ( CDU ) broke ground on October 15, 1965 with a shovel excavator . The city invested six million German marks until the indoor swimming pool was opened on September 20, 1968 after three years of construction. In addition to a 25 by 15 meter swimming pool, a 25-person sauna was installed.
From 1970 to 1973, today's changing rooms and lifeguard apartments were built in three construction phases. Above all, however, additional areas were acquired that expanded the property to today's 64,000 square meters and thus laid the basis for today's water park. On April 24, 1975, a decision in principle on extensive expansion was made but not implemented because the country was not funded. A new attempt was made on September 26, 1985. This decision of principle, which calculated costs of 12 to 13 million German marks, was revised several times. On June 11, 1987, the city council approved the funds amounting to 30 million German marks. On August 4, 1990, Mayor Wolfgang Assmann (CDU) opened the new pool, which has attracted over 400,000 visitors annually since then.
Web links
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- 75 years of the lake dam bath ; published by the Bad Homburg public utility company in 2002
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '28.63 " N , 8 ° 38' 0.34" E