Natatorium

Swimming pools are used for recreation and sporting activities in and around water. Main component of a swimming pool are swimming pools for bathing and swimming. That is why changing and shower rooms, and sitting and reclining options group. Other facilities in the area of ​​wellness can complete the offer. For most public pools entrance fees are charged. As a partial free alternative lakes are mainly used in the summer. Private pools are usually smaller and often only have a swimming pool. Another kind of baths were once the public baths as a way for regular body care.

History

Pools had been the ancient Greeks. The Romans developed the bathing culture of the Greeks and further established throughout Europe spas. 305 BC Rome had the first major aqueduct ( Aqua Appia ), and at that time a public bath has been established. In the 4th century Rome alone had approximately 900 public baths. Members of all classes visited the public Roman baths; for the poor, there were also free bathhouses. In the Middle Ages were in so-called bath houses ready filled with water troughs. Here, the hygienic aspect stood in the shadow of the diseases in the foreground. With the introduction of spas experienced the recovering and healing effects of the water a renaissance. Today, a distinction is mainly between leisure, spa and sports pools that are responsive to the respective Additional offer a specific audience.

Types of baths

Basically, you have to distinguish between baths that are used by only one family and public baths. Public swimming pools, including small hotel pools or basins of fitness or sauna clubs are subject to supervision by the health authorities. As a basis for the establishment usually the DIN 19643 and the COC guidelines hergenommen in Germany.

Furthermore, we divided bathrooms nowadays after their investment and their intended use.

Outdoor pool

The second oldest form of bathing culture is a swimming pool ( also Wildbad ). It is not covered and can on / in standing water ( lake ) or flowing water ( river swimming pool) have been created. A special form of the swimming pool is the swimming pond ( swimming and bathing pool ), not to be confused with a natural pool, which consists of the demarcated area of a bathing water. A beach is distinguished from all this still further from that the shore is sandy and is mostly used for other recreational activities.

Indoor swimming pool

Indoor pools are created in a confined space and thus can be used all year round regardless of the weather.

Sportbad

Many pools are suitable due to their design and the interpretation of the recovery is not the sporty swim. Bathrooms with swimming pool designed for swimming, based on the standards of FINA and are referred to as sports pool. See also swimming pool at the Olympic Games.

Spa

Bathrooms with hot water from thermal springs like to describe themselves based on the Roman bath culture as a " spa". They are the oldest baths. On the coast there are also sea water baths.

Solebad

When using salt water (brine ) instead of treated drinking water is called mineral baths or brine baths. In saltwater pools, a distinction bathrooms with natural brine, either from its own sources or by tanker brought into the bathroom, and artificial brine, which is recognized in the bath of dry salt.

Allwetterbad

An all-weather is expressly in good and bad weather by swimming pool outdoor and indoor use.

Bathhouse

The now rather antiquated term municipal swimming pool or bathhouse Urban refers to a swimming pool, which almost always is owned by the respective municipality or city and not a member of a swimming club.

Leisure

The designations water park, water park or water park featuring bathrooms, which are mainly designed for the recreation and fun of the bathers. They usually contain exceptional pools, hot tubs, various water slides and / or white-water channels and salt baths. Furthermore, are commonly found in water parks extensive relaxation areas, large saunas and a professional catering. The term leisure refers to indoor, outdoor or combination baths, in which the exercise is important, ie, that they have at least a 25-meter lap pool. But leisure pools must also have appropriate experience elements, such as giant water slides, wave pool, lazy river, a family pool with mandatory catering and sauna.

Adventure

The adventure is different from leisure by the fact that swimming is rather trivial, often not even a sports or diving pool are available. Important here are the fun elements as diverse tubes or wide slides, adventure pool and the extensive sauna experience, and good restaurants. Water attractions such as a lazy river, bubble couch, neck showers, massage jets, waterfalls, etc., often wave pools, water parks are in default. Most water parks also have year-round outdoor pools, which are often carried out as a salt water pool. The focus of the adventure thus lies on the unique bathing experience and carries the obvious desire of today's " Bathers" for more action and adventure bill.

The Australian historian William Hastings Burke wrote in 2009, a building designed by Albert Goering park in Bucharest was probably the first of its kind in Europe or have been around the world.

Public Baths

A public bath is a public bath with shower or tub baths, which will mainly provide low-income people the opportunity to engage in regular body care.

Wave

In a wave artificial waves are produced which gives the swimmer an experience which comes closer to swimming in the ocean than in classical swimming pools.

Supervisory staff

Swimming pools have 94.05 " traffic backup and supervisory duties in public baths during the bathing operation " be supervised by suitably qualified personnel in Germany after the DGfdB Directive. They are professionals ( Master of Public Swimming Pools, Specialists in Bäderbetriebe ) and lifeguards, in Switzerland and in Austria Badmeister lifeguard. These provide the public swimming pool for the factory inspection and supervision of the bath operation, but also for the guests. The professionals take care of water treatment and hygiene, monitoring of technical equipment, comply with the House and pool regulations and first aid, personnel management, treasury and finance, etc.

Water treatment

Bathing water must be healthy. Sterility, skin compatibility and clear view should be achieved by water treatment. Nevertheless, a number of diseases through attendance of swimming pools can be triggered. In addition, constantly must be a small amount of active chlorine in the pool to kill germs and microorganisms.

Hydrodynamic pool

The object of the hydrodynamic pool is, to bring the disinfectant chlorine in the pool mostly as quickly and evenly to every place in the pool and remove the contaminants as quickly as possible from the tank. According to current standards, the inflowing water must completely drain via the overflow channel to achieve an optimal surface cleaning.

Hygiene

Hygiene and cleanliness in showers, toilets, changing rooms, kiosk, restaurant and kitchen, on paths and lawns are a prerequisite for a healthy bathing. This includes waste management.

Electrical installations

Electrical systems and equipment hazards for people in areas of water basin more than in otherwise conventional dry environment. Because of the higher risk of damp and wet conditions, special requirements apply: they are part of the standard / safety regulation DIN VDE 0100-702 (VDE 0100-702 ).