Seaside resort
Seaside resort is a designation for places with beach tourism on seacoasts.
In Germany it is also a predicate for spas, which is granted by the federal states. It is awarded to towns where medical facilities to conduct Kurmaßnahmen are available. The predicate resort also requires the use of the maritime climate in Kurbetrieb.
For a list of the German seaside resorts, see list of resorts in Germany.
Designation
Most German seaside resorts describe themselves according to their location as the North Sea resort or seaside. These titles should be in place names, an example is the place Laboe on the eastern shore of the Kiel Fjord. Here the church name was changed by the local council in "Ostseebad Laboe " on 1 September 2004.
Seaside resorts, which have the status of a spa place are called seaside health resorts.
Many resorts have a tourist infrastructure. Seaside resorts are also located on all inhabited islands German. The oldest German and continental European seaside resort of Heiligendamm is and has been a district to Bad Doberan in Mecklenburg.
History
The first German seaside resort opened on September 21, 1793 in Heiligendamm on the Baltic Sea and the North Sea resort first opened on October 3, 1797 on Norderney.
Back in 1909, were mentioned many seaside resorts in Big Meyers Conversation Lexicon (Volume 18, Leipzig 1909, pp. 248-249 ):
- German Baltic Sea baths: Binz, Heringsdorf, Sassnitz, Travemünde, Warnemünde and Zinnowitz; and the former German seaside resorts Cranz (today Selenogradsk in Russia) and Kolberg, Misdroy, Świnoujście and Sopot which now belong to Poland. Cooling Born was built in 1938 by the merger and subsequent renaming of the seaside resorts Arendsee and Brunshaupten with the associated good Fulgen.
- German North Sea Baths: Amrun ( today's spelling Amrum ), Borkum, Heligoland, Juist, Langeoog, Norderney, Spiekeroog, Wangeroog ( today's spelling Wangerooge ), Westerland Westerland on Sylt and and Wyk.
- Belgium: Ostend
- England: Margate, Dover, Folkstone, Hastings, Isle of Wight, Falmouth, the islands of Guernsey and Jersey; Westward - Ho, Isle of Man.
- France: Calais, Boulogne -sur -Mer, Etretat, Dieppe, Trouville- sur -Mer, Deauville, Honfleur, Cherbourg, on the Atlantic Ocean Arcachon and Biarritz; the Mediterranean Sea Hyères, Cannes, Saint- Raphaël, Nice, Saint- Tropez.
- Holland Scheveningen
- Austria: Abbazia (now Opatija in Croatia) and Ragusa (today Dubrovnik in Croatia)
For the summer half-year 1936 the following nights were strangers (excerpt ) for the German seaside resorts is:
Criteria for the predication
Baltic Sea
Recognition as a seaside resort is part of the spa and resort legislation, which is subject to country law. In Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania, the law on recognition as a spa and resort (spa Act) applies. In this Act § 3 defines the different types of spas, with a distinction between coastal resort and seaside health resort. The recognition goes out after 30 years. It may be extended upon application.
Statutory requirements for a seaside resort in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern:
- Location on the seashore; the center can not in principle be more than two kilometers from the coastline
- Climatic characteristics and air quality, which are monitored and support the Gesundungs and recreation opportunities
- At least one doctor's office
- Proper bathing water quality at a well-kept and guarded beach that is monitored
- Beach promenades, sufficiently undisturbed by road parks and beach or countryside paths, opportunities for play and sport
The requirement for a seaside health resort are defined as follows:
- Location on the seashore; the center can not in principle be more than two kilometers from the coastline
- Scientifically recognized and a therapy proven by experience, therapeutically applicable air and a corresponding air quality that are monitored
- At least one practice a bathing doctor
- Facilities for delivery and use of spa therapy
- Proper bathing water quality at a well-kept and guarded beach that is monitored
- Beach promenades, sufficiently undisturbed by road parks and beach or landscape lanes opportunities for play and sport
- During the period of treatment diet advice; in hospitals and diet food establishments employment of at least one dieticians
- Communication and information device
North Sea resort
- Health services Establishment of at least one spa physician
- Responsibility for local health-promoting diet deals
- Facilities for first aid, rescue and non - specific health care by physicians and pharmacists
- If necessary. medical and therapeutic infrastructure in accordance with the recognized main therapeutic indications
- Bioclimatic advantaged location
- Sufficient air quality and for the indication " respiratory disease " increased demands on the air quality
- Location on the seashore or in the immediate proximity (distance of the town or district center max. 2 km from the beach )
- Ensuring the health resort status by: appropriate regional and land use planning
- Loosened building, embedded in horticultural and natural planting
- Proper road, pedestrian, cycle and hiking trails
- Creation of conditions for a relaxing stay in the hotel and restaurant.
- Adequate provision and maintenance of public toilets
- Accredited Tourist Information
- Refuges in the beach area and rest facilities in sheltered areas.
- Near beach boardwalks and trails.
- Well maintained and monitored beach with qualitatively and quantitatively adequate services and service facilities.
- Cultural and other leisure -related events.
- Promotion of sporting and other relevant health services, sports and other recreational facilities, park, zone of peace.
- Ability to use media
- Special attention to the needs of physically disabled persons
- Checking the quality standards of the spa and tourism organization / s as well as their facilities by a quality management system every 5 years
- Regular meetings of all service providers to exchange sector-specific situation analyzes and coordination of future-oriented developments
- For air Climate assessment in accordance with the preliminary evaluation of the bio-climate and air quality
- Control of bioclimatic factors every 10 years for good cause
- Opinion on the air quality in the assessment area in accordance with the prejudgment
Nordseeheilbad
- Powerful facilities for the application of the remedy Differentiated System spa medical care structures with outpatient and / or inpatient treatment facilities, with special attention to the needs of physically disabled people. Must be pre- Hold: Means for providing at least one local cure means and how to apply the general physical therapy with kurärztlicher monitoring.
- Conditions and facilities in the beach area and in wind-protected areas for controllably metering of air stimuli.
- Equipment and personnel for teaching nutrition and diet programs.
- Facilities for exercise therapy and other activating treatment forums.
- Exercise and rest rooms for relaxation therapy concepts.
- Occurrence and scientific advice on the medicinal properties of the natural remedy of the sea
- Establishment of at least one physician funds legally authorized physician at the resort taking into account the criteria of Kurarztvertrages.
- When performing outpatient treatment: considering the " common principles for providing home cures"
- When performing compact Cures: recognition by the Committee for compact cures in the doctors' Association of Westphalia-Lippe.
- Responsibility for the psychological support of spa patients
- Responsibility for local health-promoting diet deals
- Facilities for first aid, rescue and not kurspezifische care by physicians and pharmacists
- Therapy center for the delivery of sea water baths, mud baths and packs, and application of the general physical therapy
- Devices for movement therapy
- Special health services (eg Thalasso )
- Therapeutically Applicable and proven through experience dosage bioclimate with possibility of climate stimuli
- Increased requirements on air quality
- Location on the seashore or in the immediate proximity (distance of the town or district center max. 2 km from the beach )
- Ensuring the health resort status by: appropriate regional and land use planning
- Loosened building, embedded in horticultural and natural planting
- Proper road, pedestrian, cycle and hiking trails
- Creation of conditions for a relaxing stay in the hotel and restaurant in particular classification
- Adequate provision and maintenance of public toilets
- Accredited Tourist Information
- Event and communication facilities with Verweilangeboten
- Beach and park-like systems
- Near beach boardwalks, paths, trails, plants, sun room, refuges, planting within the stand area and sheltered areas for controllably metering of air stimuli
- "House Guest " as communication, information and training center for patients and spa guests
- Well maintained and monitored beach with qualitatively and quantitatively adequate services and service facilities
- Bathing facilities in the hall
- Sport and leisure facilities
- Cultural and other leisure -related events (eg Kurmusik )
- Promotion of sporting and other relevant health services
- Ability to use media
- Special attention to the needs of physically disabled persons
- Medical scientific observation and recognition of indications and contraindications scientific advice
- For seawater: Scientific Opinion on the therapeutic suitability of ocean water through a medical- balneological institution or a medical expert balneologic
- Sea water analysis every 10 years
- Regular seawater control analyzes
- Monthly general hygiene studies
- Chemical control analysis in swimming and exercise pool and therapy pool from recycled bath water at least every 2 years
- Medical and climatological opinion on the Gesundungs and recreational opportunities of the local bio-climate and its therapeutic applications
- Preliminary evaluation of the bio-climate and air quality
- Climate opinion on the therapeutic utility of bio-climate and the dosage possibilities of climate stimuli in the form of an extended climate analysis
- Control of bioclimatic factors every 10 years
- Opinion on the air quality in the assessment area
- Periodic review of the air quality requirements every 5 years by prejudgment
- Regular review of the air quality through one-year control measurements every 10 years