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Regensburg decides on a mammoth project: indoor swimming pool and sports hall for 43 million euros

2021-09-25T10:05:05.355Z


Regensburg has too little water for clubs, school sports and swimming courses. That is why the city council has now launched a new indoor swimming pool.


Regensburg has too little water for clubs, school sports and swimming courses.

That is why the city council has now launched a new indoor swimming pool.

Regensburg - Due to the corona, Regensburg * has to save - like other municipalities.

Only recently was the city's administrative budget given a blanket spending block of 25 percent.

A long-planned rental system for bicycles is therefore likely to be buried - for reasons of cost.

The "Sportpark Ost", an indoor swimming pool and an athletics hall in the east of Regensburg, should not fall victim to the savings plans.

The project was launched this week in several city council committees.

In total, they want to invest almost 43 million euros.

"Sportpark Ost" in Regensburg: costs more than doubled

The decision in principle for the project was a little longer ago. In September 2017, the city council decided to build an athletics hall next to the former Prinz-Leopold-Kaserne (PLK), on which an energy self-sufficient flagship district is to be built. A year later, based on the “new swimming pool strategy” of the Regensburg municipal utility, the decision was made to build a new indoor swimming pool. At that time, the net costs for the hall and bathroom were only 19.2 million euros.

Manfred Koller, head of Stadtwerk GmbH, which is to take over the operation of the indoor swimming pool and athletics hall, emphasizes that this calculation already includes substantial savings.

In a cost estimate from September 2020, 47 million were assumed.

In fact, this amount could actually be reduced by eight million.

But then additional services came into play.

The municipal utility must also free the building site from contaminated sites.

In addition, there are additional requests from clubs such as a weight room with sports equipment or protective nets for baseball players who should also use the hall.

And so it is now just said just under 43 million euros net.

New indoor swimming pool for Regensburg: "Permanent dispute over water areas"

It has not yet been clarified whether there will be subsidies from the federal government and the Free State.

However, this is "likely", according to the municipal utility.

Construction is scheduled to start in November 2022.

The project with a total area of ​​almost 20,000 square meters is to be completed in 2025.

The Sportpark Ost is a prestige project of the current government coalition.

In the joint contract between the CSU *, SPD *, FDP *, Free Voters and CSB, there is an express commitment to the project.

However, due to the tight budget situation, the hall was still excluded from the investment program last year.

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The winning design for the Sportpark Ost (Behnisch Architects) provides for two parts of the building.

The indoor swimming pool is on the left.

© Michael Bothner

The indoor swimming pool in particular is urgently needed, emphasizes Koller.

In the city there is a "permanent distribution battle" between clubs, school sports and the public over water areas.

The Westbad and the indoor swimming pool in Gabelsbergerstraße, which have to be refurbished by 2025 at the latest, are therefore not sufficient.

Currently, you have to wait up to a year and a half for a place on a swimming course.

The renovation of the Wöhrdbad also did not go as planned.

Sportpark Ost: ÖDP rejects athletics hall

A joint development of the indoor swimming pool and athletics hall is more economical than a single project, according to the majority opinion in the city council. SPD parliamentary group leader Thomas Burger speaks, for example, of "synergy effects" that could be used. Brücke city councilor Thomas Mayr fears additional costs of several million if the projects are split up. The bridge demanded exactly that a year ago, but failed. Now the proposals of his group would be "adopted one to one". That is “copy and paste. Plagiarism, ”complains Mayr.

The ÖDP city councilor Joachim Graf sees something different.

For him, the indoor pool is a “must-have”, but the athletics hall is only a “nice-to-have” - and currently too expensive.

His group is the only one to vote against the project in its current form.

The Greens, on the other hand, speak of a “central project in the east of the city”.

He was glad that, apart from the ÖDP, there was no longer any talk of whether but how the building would be realized, said City Councilor Daniel Gaittet.

(By the way: Our brand new Regensburg newsletter informs you about all developments and results from the world cultural heritage city - and of course about all other important stories from Regensburg.)

Sportpark Ost: Debate about the energy concept

Only the energy concept ensures longer discussions in the sports committee. According to the draft resolution, this should be based on “a supply that is as CO2-neutral as possible and based on renewable energies”. For the Greens * that's too vague. You are asking for a clear definition. The word "as possible" should be deleted. The finished energy concept is also to be presented again to the responsible committee at a later date.

Stadtwerk managing director Koller has so far hoped that the athletics hall and the energy-intensive indoor swimming pool can be supplied via the future climate-neutral energy network of the Prinz-Leopold-Kaserne.

His appeal to the city council: "Make sure that there is a concept that is CO2-neutral and has warmth left over for us." That is the best solution.

And if this becomes climate-neutral, then this will also apply to the indoor swimming pool and hall.

If this variant does not work, the municipal utility will in any case tender the heat supply with the criterion "climate neutrality".

Finally, the energy concept will be discussed - as requested by the Greens - in a later meeting.

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Source: merkur

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