Westbad (Regensburg)
The Westbad is a leisure pool at Messerschmittstraße 4 in the western part of the city of Regensburg . Adjacent to the Westbad is the public Westpark with the so-called "Baggerweiher" . The Westbad is a municipal bath and is run by the Regensburg municipal utility, baths .
history
Westbad 1972
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Due to the imminent closure of the Danube pool on the Schillerwiese due to the planned construction of the Main-Danube Canal, there was a lack of suitable open-air swimming area for the booming city. In addition, there was no indoor sports pool suitable for competitions in Regensburg. With the planning of a multifunctional pool, an attempt was made to counteract the lack of open space in an indoor pool and at the same time the low occupancy of an outdoor pool. After examining the technical details and tracing the future operating costs, the City Council decided on a planning idea that the Paris Piscine Georges Hermant followed that there by Roger Taillibert was built and still in this form at the Rue David d'Angers is received . The groundbreaking ceremony for the 24 million mark project with an innovative tent roof was in September 1970. The bathroom was declared a research pool. Therefore, the substantial amount could be mitigated by high grants.
The overall concept initially included the excavator pond as a usable natural lake for bathers. It therefore comprised 90,000 m 2 of play and lounging area and 17,000 m 2 of water. The remaining parts of the building were built in a short time from a prefabricated system made of reinforced concrete in a shed construction with columns and bars with attached roof panels. The opening by Rudolf Schlichtinger was after the keys were handed over by the architect Peter Mehr on June 3, 1972.
When the weather was fine, the tent roof made of translucent, white polyester could either be opened using an automatic control system or with control impulses by hand via the driving cables using cable tractors. These snapped into place at the respective end point, on the ground or on the inclined 37 m high mast on motorized bindings. The indoor pool area was transformed into a further sub-area of the outdoor pool.
The roof system proved to be operationally not reliable, was often required for repairs and therefore remained permanently closed after a few years. In addition, the thin tent roof skin posed a problem in terms of energy technology.
Westbad today
In 1984 a three-year renovation began, in which a new, massive roof construction was used. A general renovation was planned by the Frankfurt architects Fischer, Glaser and Kretschmer. The reopening was in 1987. In October 2006 the newly built sauna area opened. In 2013, extensive renovation work was carried out on the Westbad due to damage to the acoustic ceiling. The Westbad has around 600,000 bathers per year.
investment
The roof of the Regensburg Westbad is a square, pyramid-shaped glulam construction with a side length of 64 m. Today the facility is divided into an indoor area (bathing hall) and an outdoor area ( outdoor pool ) and comprises a total of 3472 m² of water, of which 1875 m² are indoors and 1597 m² outdoors. The only covered sports pool in Regensburg that is suitable for international competitions is located in the bathing hall. It is also used by several Regensburg sports clubs.
Bathing hall:
- 50-meter sports pool (8 lanes, 50 meters long, circulation rate 542 m³ / h, multi-layer filter treatment, water temperature 26 ° C)
- Wave pool
- Indoor thermal pool (water temperature 34 ° C)
- Paddling pool (indoor area)
outdoor pool
- Paddling pool (outdoor area)
- Diving basin
- Thermal pool outside (water temperature 34 ° C)
- so-called fun pool
Others:
- Diving platform (indoor area)
- Slide (length: 103 meters)
- Sunbathing lawn (50,000 m²)
- The sauna area covers 5000 m² outside and 1200 m² inside. Finnish sauna, panorama sauna, steam bath / sudatorium , soft sauna, variosauna, infrared cabin, and Kelo outdoor sauna are offered.
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Connection to public transport
The connection to the Regensburg city center is ensured by the city bus line 11 of the Stadtwerk Regensburg, mobility - on weekdays and Saturdays there is a 20-minute cycle. A special feature is that the Westbad is explicitly mentioned on the destination displays for line 11, although the bus continues beyond the Westbad to the final stop at Wernerwerkstraße.
literature
- Julius Natterer, Thomas Herzog and Michael Volz: Examples of modern wood architecture - a documentation of the information service wood, wood industry publishing house of the wood working group , Düsseldorf, 2nd edition 1990, object 69 "Wood construction atlas two", Institute for international architecture documentation, Munich, reviewed Reprinted 1994, p. 182
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Schmid, More, Eckl in: Builder Swimming Pool West. Callwey Munich, Vol. 70, (1973), pp. 75 ff.
- ↑ Reporting in the Mittelbayerische Zeitung : 5000 red balloons in a cornflower blue sky from June 5, 1972, vol. 28, no. 134, p. 12.
- Jump up ↑ Little Manhattan, Sins of Construction and a staunch admirer . The seventies. In: Regensburger Stadtzeitung . January 2014, p. 13 ( online ).
- ↑ Claudia Böken: Beauty cure for the old Westbad. Mittelbayerische Zeitung, August 2, 2011, accessed on July 22, 2016 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 26.9 ″ N , 12 ° 3 ′ 19 ″ E