Stadionbad (Bremen)

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Stadionbad am Weserstadion (2012)

The Stadionbad is a public outdoor pool in the municipality of Bremen . Originally opened in 1925 as the club's own bathing establishment and since then rebuilt and expanded several times, it has belonged to the municipal Bremen baths since the 1940s , which are now run by Bremer Bäder GmbH .

location

The stadium pool is located directly on the right bank of the Weser in the Pauliner Marsch , a floodplain in front of the Osterdeich in the Ostliche Vorstadt district, Peterswerder district . The bathroom is there in the Franz-Böhmert -Straße 13, next to the eponymous Weserstadion .

history

Below left the stadium pool, in the center of the picture the ABTS arena (photo from 1928)

Initially referred to as the bathing establishment at Peterswerder , the stadium pool was built in 1925 as part of a new sports field facility by the Allgemeine Bremer Turn- und Sportverein (ABTS) according to plans by the Bremen architect Walter Fricke - together with the directly adjacent ABTS arena , which was completed in 1926 Stadium with a large concrete grandstand and forerunner of the later Weser Stadium . Initially there was a large swimming pool with 100-meter lanes and a diving bay adjacent to the side, including a 10-meter tower system. Later, separated by an intermediate wall, two 50-meter pools were built, from which today's four different pool areas developed.

The stadium pool opened on August 8, 1925 when the German Swimming Championships were held . In 1929 the pool was taken over by the Weser Stadium Association ; from 1942 it was operated by the newly founded society for public baths . After the end of World War II in 1945, it was confiscated by the victorious Allied powers and used exclusively by British and American occupation forces until 1948, when it was returned to the city.

Until 1954 there was the river bathing establishment Wagenbrett in the immediate vicinity of the stadium pool on a small Weserbucht bay , which had existed since 1882 and was laid out by the chief construction director Ludwig Franzius . When it ceased operations at the end of the 1954 bathing season due to the increasing pollution of the Weser at the time, the Society for Public Baths acquired the property in order to enlarge the sunbathing area of ​​the stadium bath. To this end, the bay was filled in and the road that had previously run between the two pools was relocated to the newly gained area facing the Weser. Reinhard Loske, then Bremen's Senator for the Environment, and Robert Bücking , head of the local office , advocated restoring the beach in 2008 .

From 1950 the stadium pool was expanded, modernized and renovated several times. So it got a large non-swimmer pool , a new diving tower, then a new sunbathing lawn and in 1968, the first pool in Bremen, a water heating system. In early 1994 were reflections of the society for public baths known to close the bathroom: "cracks in the pool and required by the Environmental Protection Agency duct connection . Expect could remediation costs in the tens of millions" Meanwhile, the closure plans were after public protests and because of the resistance of the advisory board abandoned and a significantly cheaper solution was found for the renovation. For the 70th anniversary in 1995, the bath presented itself “with sealed pools, modern technology and an environmentally friendly connection to the public sewer network”.

The operator, the company for public baths mbH , was restructured in 1998 and has since been operating as Bremer Bäder GmbH .

From 2005 to 2006 the bathroom was rebuilt, expanded and completely renovated.

To better protect against floods at high tide in the river Weser, which had occurred several times since the founding of the Weser stadium and the Stadionbads and partly extensive damage had been done, the two sports venues were together from 2016 to 2017 a new technical - and "Green promenade designed" - Flood protection ; see section Floods and Flood Protection .

The stadium pool today

Furnishing

Part of the natural swimming area with pools for non-swimmers and toddlers, slides and play areas (view from the roof of the Weser Stadium, 2014)

The heated outdoor pool currently (2018) has the following equipment:
A large swimmer pool with six 50-meter lanes and a separate swimmer pool for the diving area with a 10-meter tower system ( diving tower with a height of 10, 7.5 and 5 meters as well as a one-meter board). There is also a non-swimmer pool designed as a natural bathing area with a water jetty, play equipment in the water and a wide water slide with several lanes (around twelve meters long and four meters wide) and a 23-meter-long "turbo slide" with free fall; a fully automatic water play system with "playable" water attractions (splash pad); a toddler pool; adjustable watercourses and waterfalls.

The sunbathing lawns frame the east, south and west side of the pool area in a U-shape and offer partial views of the Weser. There is also in the southern terrain area, a beach volleyball court , a soccer - Court with artificial grass and a playground with a sandbox . In addition, the stadium pool on the southeast corner of the property along Franz-Böhmert-Straße has an angular entrance building with access and cash desk area, collective changing rooms , lockers and lockers, toilet rooms, ancillary rooms and a catering area as well as a service apartment for the pool manager.

Visitor numbers

After its opening, the stadium pool became “soon to be Bremen's most popular summer pool”; in 1931, 100,000 visitors were already counted. While the daily number of visitors in the 1970s and 1980s was 5,000 and more on some days, currently (2015) some 3,000 bathers and more come on one day. In 2015 the stadium pool had 54,000 visitors, in 2017, with a relatively cool summer, a total of around 39,000 visitors were counted and in the very hot and dry “ summer of the century” of 2018 , the number of visitors rose to around 88,000.

It is open every year during the outdoor swimming season and is Bremen's most popular outdoor swimming pool. In addition, the stadium pool, which in summer not only attracts visitors from the surrounding residential areas in the eastern suburbs, including the Bremen “ Viertel ”, is now a cult in Bremen.

Events

During the outdoor pool season, numerous events and events take place in the stadium pool. For example, since the mid-1990s, the pool has regularly been the venue for the Heartbreaker's Ball Open Air single party , which attracts up to 5,000 visitors once a year.

Adjacent other sports and leisure facilities

The 2009 created facade of Südgeraden the Weser stadium includes photovoltaic cells, in the foreground the Stadionbad with diving

Weserstadion: ( Location ) Since they were built together in 1925/26, the north side of the stadium pool has been delimited by the directly adjoining, high grandstand on the south straight of the Weser Stadium , which has been known since 1930 . The original football and athletics stadium has been rebuilt, expanded and expanded into today's Bremen Weser Stadium, with the stands being raised several times. It is now a pure football stadium where the German Bundesliga club SV Werder Bremen plays its games. It has a capacity of just over 42,000 seats. The stadium is run by the Bremen Weser-Stadion GmbH , half of which is owned by SV Werder Bremen and the city of Bremen. In the course of a major reconstruction and renovation from 2008 to 2011, the south straight was given a new facade that includes photovoltaic elements. The facade, completed in 2009, caused complaints because it reflected too much and the lawns in the stadium pool would be burned as a result. The glare effect could also have a disruptive effect on bathers.

Training area 10 of SV Werder Bremen: Opposite the south side of the stadium pool area and the entrance building, separated by the Franz-Böhmert-Straße running in between, is SV Werder Bremen's training area 10 .

Hansewasser indoor pool: ( Location ) Directly on the east side of the stadium pool area , between the Weser Stadium and the entrance building of the stadium pool , there is a small indoor pool with a 25-meter pool, the so-called Hansewasser indoor pool ( spelled as hanseWasser indoor pool ). It is operated by the Bremen State Swimming Association and has been named after a main sponsor of the indoor pool, the Bremen sewage disposal company Hansewasser , since 2012 . Originally built by the Bremen Swimming Club in 1885 (BSC 85) and inaugurated in 1979, the Osterdeich swimming and leisure center , which was initially named as it was, had to be taken over by the city of Bremen in 1980 for financial reasons and was henceforth managed by the Society for Public Pools . After the  planned privatization - as part of a new pool concept by the Bremen Senate - did not materialize, the indoor swimming pool at the stadium was taken over by the state swimming association in 1993. With the financial and sometimes technical assistance of sponsors, both the building and the energy, heating and water technology were extensively renovated and modernized in the early 2010s. Since then, the Hansewasser indoor pool has been technically one of the most modern pools in the city of Bremen. It is mainly used by schools and clubs for school and swimming sports, but is also open to the public from September to April on Sundays, except on public holidays.

Depot Mitte: In front of the indoor swimming pool and on the east side of the entrance building of the Stadionbad there is a parking lot as well as - on the opposite side of the passing Franz-Böhmert-Straße - the depot "Mitte" of the municipal company Umweltbetrieb Bremen (formerly Stadtgrün Bremen ).

Floods and flood protection

The floodplains in Bremen (including the Pauliner Marsch )

The Pauliner Marsch recreation area, in which the stadium pool is located, is designated as a flood area for flood protection and serves as a so-called retention area during floods in the Weser. Due to its location in an area outside the dike, the pool is at risk of flooding. The residential areas behind it from the eastern suburbs are secured with a dike , the Osterdeich , at a height of 8.30 meters, which corresponds to the new height of the general plan for coastal protection . The Pauliner Marsch, however, is only protected by a so-called summer dike around 2.0 kilometers long , which used to be 5.5 meters above sea ​​level and in the area of ​​the stadium pool reached a height of almost 6.5 meters.

In the event of flooding in the Weser above the level of the summer dike, the stadium pool, the Weser Stadium and other sports and leisure facilities in the Pauliner Marsch are not only threatened by river water , but also by rapidly rising groundwater and rising water from sewage and rainwater canals . Since it was built in 1925, the stadium pool has been affected several times by floods from the Weser in Bremen and has been flooded and partly damaged, for example during the storm surge of February 1946 or the storm surge in the night of February 16-17, 1962 . There was “ land under ” in the Stadionbad, among other things, during the storm surge of January 1976, the inland flood of March 1981 (which led to the Weser breakthrough and above all caused great damage in the southern Bremen district of habenhausen ), the tidal flood of January 1994 and the severe storm surge dated November 2007.

In 2016, the Weserstadion and the stadium pool received new technical flood protection by raising the summer dike on the south stand of the stadium to a height of 6.5 m. Around the two sports facilities, “large and small dikes were connected and sheet piling was installed to protect against flooding”. In addition, devices were created for the use of mobile flood protection walls. In the following year 2017, the new technical flood protection was designed through landscaping measures such as tree and hedge planting, the creation of lawns and paving of paths, etc. "optically [embedded] in the landscape" and designed as a "Green Promenade Weserstadion".

literature

  • Martina Baden, Laura Schmitt, Heinz Fricke (editing and texts): Bremer Bäder - always on the move. 75 years of Bremen baths. Cult: the stadium pool, lifestyle: the south pool, future: the pool concept . Weser-Kurier / Bremer Bäder GmbH, Bremen February 18, 2017, OCLC 975832236 (commemorative publication).

Web links

Commons : Stadionbad  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Legally “flood-prone area” because it is in the tidal area; see floodplains. bauumwelt.bremen.de, accessed on March 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Volker Junck: “Swimming up” in lousy cold. 70 years of the stadium pool . In: Weser courier . May 20, 1995, p. 14 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Corinna Tonner: The ten-meter tower is the landmark. In: weser-kurier.de . August 7, 2015, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  4. ^ A b Society for public baths mbH: Bremer bathing problem . In: Weser courier . September 16, 1954, p. 4 (letter to the editor).
  5. ↑ (zer): The Weser was taboo for our grandmothers. From the seventy-year history of “Wagenbrett” . In: Weser courier . May 22, 1952, p. 3 .
  6. ↑ Bathing establishment put on the bike. Stadionbad takes over wagon board area . In: Weser courier . January 11, 1955, p. 3 .
  7. ^ Andreas Moll: Badestrand Weser. In: butenunbinnen.de. buten un binnen , June 3, 2008, accessed on March 19, 2019 ( video stream , 3:01 min).
  8. ↑ Partnership / Commercial Register at Bremen Local Court : Changes >>  HRB 3026 - December 2, 1998 . In: Weser courier . December 9, 1998, p. 8 ("Official Notices" section).
  9. ↑ a b Alice Echtermann: Flood protection at the Weser Stadium completed. In: weser-kurier.de . December 8, 2016, accessed March 16, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Biljana Neloska: The Weserstadion is now also available in "waterproof". In: weserreport.de . August 14, 2017. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .
  11. ↑ The Senator for Social Affairs, Youth, Women, Integration and Sport : Template for the meeting of the municipal deputation for sport on January 10, 2019 >>  Annex 3 . Ed .: Sports Office Bremen. Bremen January 8, 2019 ( download at sportamt.bremen.de [PDF; 132 kB ; accessed on March 12, 2019]).
  12. ^ Martina Baden, Laura Schmitt, Heinz Fricke (editing and texts): Bremer Bäder - always on the move. 75 years of Bremen baths. Cult: the stadium pool, lifestyle: the south pool, future: the pool concept . Weser-Kurier / Bremer Bäder GmbH, Bremen February 18, 2017, OCLC 975832236 (commemorative publication).
  13. ↑ (eho): Singles spectacle in the stadium pool . In: Weser courier . May 31/1. June, 2000, p. 21 .
  14. ↑ Karina Skwierblies: Tutoring for flirting and falling in love. There were quite a few couples at the Heartbreaker's Ball in the stadium pool / No one was allowed to go into the pool . In: Weser courier . July 14, 2003, p. 13 .
  15. ↑ Karin Mahlstedt: Pack your swimming trunks. My stop: Jürgen Maas gets off at the Weserstadion . In: District courier center . February 14, 2011, p. 4 .
  16. ↑ Heinz Fricke: Eternal construction site: Five decades of messing around . In: Weser courier . September 15, 2011, p. 3 .
  17. ↑ Bremer Weser-Stadion GmbH: Photovoltaic system - EWE and swb catch the sun for Werder. In: weserstadion.de. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Volker Junck: Reflections and algae in the water. Stadium pool: Not dramatic . In: Weser courier . August 11, 2009, p. 11 .
  19. ↑ a b cf .: Kreikenbaum + Heinemann GmbH & Co. KG and IDN GmbH (author): Flood - Object Protection Plus - Weser Stadium. Flood protection of the Bremen Weser Stadium . Ed .: Bremer Weser-Stadion GmbH. Bremen April 30, 2015, p. 9–10 (see Section 4: Existing Conditions ).
  20. ↑ (as): Swimming club faces bankruptcy. BSC 85 cannot cover deficit of its indoor pool / Today advice . In: Weser courier . 1./2. March, 1980, p. 13 .
  21. ↑ Bremer Energie-Konsens GmbH: Implementation example >>  hanseWasser indoor swimming pool. In: energiekonsens.de. Retrieved March 15, 2019 .
  22. ^ Website of the Hansewasser indoor swimming pool (www.hansewasser-hallenbad.de); accessed on March 15, 2019.
  23. ↑ Petra Spangenberg: New: Hansewasser indoor pool. Energy, heating and water technology extensively renovated. In: weser-kurier.de . April 12, 2012, accessed March 15, 2019 .
  24. ↑ a b The Senator for Economy, Labor and Ports : Submission No. 19/084-S for the meeting of the Deputation for Economy, Labor and Harbor on December 2nd, 2015 >>  Flood protection Weser Stadium . Ed .: The Senator for Economy, Labor and Ports. Bremen December 2nd, 2015.
  25. ^ Flood emergency in Bremen . In: Weser courier . February 15, 1946, p. 3 .
  26. ↑ (jb): Bringing outdoor pools to a shine . In: Weser courier . May 19, 1962, p. 11 .
  27. ^ "Land under" in Pauliner March. Again high damage to sports facilities . In: Weser courier . January 22, 1976, p. 10 .
  28. ↑ Risk behind the summer dike. Pauliner Marsch remains at risk of flooding . In: Weser courier . March 11, 1994, p. 9 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 3 ′ 54.5 ″  N , 8 ° 50 ′ 17 ″  E