Alte Donau lido

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Alte Donau lido
Blackboard at the cash desk
Bronze sculpture "Sonnender" by Eva Mazzucco from 1962

The Strandbad Alte Donau is an urban summer pool on the central bank of the Alte Donau in the 22nd district of Vienna, Donaustadt . It is located near the Danube Park on Arbeiterstrandbadstrasse: between the workers' beach and the Bundessportbad.

Location and accessibility

The pool is located on Arbeiterstrandbadstrasse and can be reached by bus lines 20A and 20B and by car (parking spaces opposite).

history

The 10,000 m² bathing beach of the baths on the banks of the Old Danube, which opened on June 1, 1918, was created by backfilling the area and then covering it with sand from the goose heap . Play areas were laid out on a further 7000 m². Components from abandoned baths such as the communal bath near the Reichsbrücke were used to equip the new bath . It remains to be seen how the city administration was able to carry out the construction work in view of the labor shortage at the time. As with other public works in the Vienna area, prisoners of war may have been used.

The pool is flanked by other lido: The Workers 'Swimming Association built the workers' beach in 1912 , on the grounds of which there has been a public sunbathing lawn since 2015. In 1919, the Volkswehr built a military swimming pool on the other neighboring property, which later became the Bundessportbad and today's Bundesbad Alte Donau.

During the Second World War, the Alte Donau lido suffered severe damage, which was repaired in the post-war period.

The baths were rebuilt in 1960/1961. The old trees (some from the time before 1875 concluded Danube regulation , as here, the main arm of the Danube navigable ran) was obtained; New plantings were added. Mayor Franz Jonas reopened it on July 8, 1961. The two new changing buildings were built with precast concrete parts, most of which were supplied by the Ebenseer concrete works.

Furnishing

The beach is 150 m long. There is also a sports, multi-purpose and children's pool with preheated water (total water area of ​​the pools 609 m²), as well as a toddler slide, ball game, badminton, beach volleyball and soccer field, gymnastics equipment, a fitness track and sun baths. Around 20 employees in the municipal swimming pool department (“MA 44”) look after bathers and the infrastructure.

The pool water is disinfected with a chlorine gas system. The water quality in the Old Danube is determined in accordance with Directive 76/160 / EEC of December 8, 1975 (valid until December 31, 2014) and Directive 2006/7 / EC of February 15, 2006 by Municipal Department 44 - Pools City of Vienna controls.

A wooden bathing jetty built in 1998 with the help of pioneers of the Austrian Armed Forces was extended to 60 m in 2000.

As a result of the modernization in 1961, the number of the originally 2,300 boxes in two changing buildings was increased to 2,632 (1,424 boxes for men, 1208 boxes for women) and the number of cabins from 107 to 500. A report by the Control Office of the City of Vienna in 2006 names 1,160 boxes and 668 cabins.

From 98,039 in 2004, the number of visits to the Alte Donau lido increased to 98,580 in 2005 and 124,474 in 2006.

See also

literature

  • Gernot Ladinig (editor): The Old Danube - people on the water , Bohmann Druck und Verlags-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Vienna, ISBN 3-7002-1138-4
  • Christine Klusacek, Kurt Stimmer: The city and the electricity. Vienna and the Danube ; J & V, Edition Wien, Dachs Verlag, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85058-113-6 , p. 127

Web links

Commons : Strandbad Alte Donau  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ New beach area since May 2015
  2. ↑ Städtisches Bad - Alte Donau - Geschichte ( Memento from May 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ City Hall correspondence of November 18, 1960, sheet 2252
  4. ↑ a b Control Office Report 2006 (PDF file; 375 kB)
  5. ^ Report of the city ​​hall correspondence of July 3, 1998 on the website of the City of Vienna
  6. ^ Report of the city ​​hall correspondence of July 23, 2000 on the website of the City of Vienna
  7. ^ Website of the City of Vienna
  8. ↑ Control Office Report 2007 (PDF file; 62 kB)

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 32.6 ″  N , 16 ° 25 ′ 2.9 ″  E