Due to the provisions in the Corona-pandemic for the free baths in Germany this year, later in the season. Friends of the cool Wet have to also adjust to some new rules. FOCUS Online shows you which are the and when free baths in the individual Federal States are allowed to open.
At the Start of the outdoor season in some of the länder, guests have access restrictions and new rules. The spontaneous jump into the cool water after work is not going to be anywhere without restriction, such as Christian Ochsenbauer, managing Director of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für das Badewesen (DGfB), said.
Time cards are to direct visitor flows in open-air pools
Instead, many bathrooms time wanted to offer cards to channel the flow of visitors. For the pool, the DGfB recommends a limitation of access, so that the spacing rules can also be in the water observed. "It can then happen that the people müssen" stand in a queue in front of the pool;, ox, Bauer said.
Also on the lawns of the well – known distance and contact commandments – lifeguard or Security forces to ensure their compliance. Worry that the Virus through the water spread, have to no one: According to the Federal office for the environment provide Filtration and disinfection in conventional swimming pool water to ensure that viruses are reliably inactivated.
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In many States, the pools are allowed to open already
On the Opening of the outdoor pools crisis in the Corona of the country: In Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt is allowed to receive free baths again visitors. Most of the other countries will follow in early June. Only Hesse and Schleswig-Holstein want to wait – an appointment is not there yet.
When outdoor pools open – Overview of the States:
- Baden-Württemberg: outdoor pools may, subject to conditions 6. June open.
- Bavaria: free baths and swimming pool facilities in the Free can of 8. June, the visitors received.
- Berlin: free baths can since 25. May open.
- Brandenburg: free baths can for 28. May open.
- Bremen: The first free bathrooms can 1. June open from 15. June should be bathrooms in the submission of a hygiene concept in General, open.
- Hamburg: free baths may from the 2. June, subject to conditions, to re-open.
- Hesse: For outdoor pools is the time for a re-opening is still unclear.
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: free baths are allowed for 25. May open.
- Lower Saxony: free baths can since 25. May re-open.
- North Rhine-Westphalia: free baths may for 20. May open, the minimum clearance shall also apply in the pools.
- Rhineland-Palatinate: free baths may for 27. May open.
- Saarland: outdoor and indoor pools may of 8. June, again subject to conditions, to open.
- Saxony: pools are allowed to open unless they have an approved hygiene concept.
Saxony-Anhalt: free baths may for 28. May re-open. - Schleswig-Holstein: outdoor pools will remain closed until further notice.
- Thuringia: free baths can from 1. June open.
So the Corona should look to-day life in the outdoor pools:
Online bookings and time window
On hot summer days, many yearn for the jump into the cool Wet. But this summer will not be the quick Swim after work anywhere without restriction, such as Christian Ochsenbauer, managing Director of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für das Badewesen (DGfB), explains.
In order to channel the stream of visitors, want to offer many bath time card. So for example, in the premises of the "Kölnbäder", where customers not only with E-Tickets will be admitted. "Spontaneous visits are not vorgesehen", a spokesperson Franziska Graal man says. With the Online registration, the bathrooms were also at the same time your obligation to provide proof. Also in Berlin, where the first baths for 25. May want to open, is planned in such a concept.
Distance, Distance, Distance
Whether on the lawn, in a line at the diving tower or in the pool: a distance of the order of the day is. In Cologne or Düsseldorf, marks are placed on the ground, in some of the bathrooms, the swimming shall be allowed to be beschwommen lanes in one direction only. The approximately 1,50 meters long swimming pool noodles are used as a spacer.
The DGfB is recommended to limit the number of people in the pool. "It can then happen that the people müssen" stand in a queue in front of the pool;, ox, Bauer says. Also on the lawns of the well-known distance and contact commandments apply.
New tasks for lifeguards
How will the visitors deal with the new rules, no one can predict. Operators such as "Kölnbäder" put on the reason of your clientele. "We hope that one or the other things already learned sind", Graal man says. Nevertheless, the staff are encouraged to check the clearance rules and to admonish, if necessary. Who doesn’t want to keep Mat in mind, you must leave the bathroom. In the meadows also Security to ensure forces, not to larger groups. New tasks of the lifeguard. DGfB, managing Director of ox, Bauer suggests that you count the number of bathers and the pool, where appropriate, to lock.
What to do the Virus kill
The distance should ensure the rules that the Coronavirus is spread through the air. In addition, the following applies: disinfect what is going on! Sanitary facilities should be cleaned more often, in Berlin, locker rooms and shower rooms will remain closed completely.
Some of the bathrooms also plan every few hours having to stop the operation, and a basic cleaning, such as oxen, Bauer reported. Worry that the Virus spread via the water, by the way, no one: According to the Federal office for the environment Filtration and disinfection in conventional swimming pool water to ensure that viruses are reliably inactivated.
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