Dorfen outdoor pool: heat and visitor record

Created: 06/20/2022, 16:00

By: Michaele Heske

Enjoying the refreshing water: Rita Lohmaier and her daughter Luzia.

She can now keep her head above water.

For her mother, swimming is one of the basic skills that all children should learn before they start school.

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Temperatures of over 30 degrees caused a rush to the Dorfen outdoor pool at the weekend.

Many visitors spent refreshing hours there.

Dorfen – Two days before the start of summer, the thermometer on Sunday showed temperatures above 33 degrees for the first time this year.

The record heat also ensured the first visitor record in the Dorfen outdoor pool.

"It's going to be full today," predicted operations manager Michaela Hoffmann in the morning.

More than 1,500 bathers had already come on Saturday, and Hoffmann expected even more visitors on Sunday: "On Saturdays you still have to go shopping, you have a lot planned - and often no time for the swimming pool."

Shortly before half past nine: In front of the cash desk, the first in line are already waiting to be admitted.

"It's blazing hot today, so it's good to cool down," says Marion Herzig.

The villager is particularly looking forward to swimming.

She has a garden and could also lie in the sun at home, she says.

"It's wonderful in the water." Sometimes she goes swimming before work, sometimes afterwards, and at the weekend anyway.

Freyja Brönnle, a permanent guest, also disappears on Sunday shortly before the start of work.

"I swim 1,200 meters a day," says the geriatric nurse.

At noon, however, it gets too crowded for her, so she can't swim her lengths: "I'm an early swimmer.

When it rains, there are hardly any people in the pool, that's when I love coming here."

The children especially had a lot of fun.

Water slide or springboard, parents really worked up a sweat.

"Claudius is a real water rat - and a whirlwind," reveals father Ludwig Empl from Dorfen, who never took his eyes off his eight-year-old son: "He usually stays in the water until he's shivering from the cold.

But I don't see any danger there today."

Queue at the entrance: the first visitors came to Dorfen's outdoor pool at 9.30 sharp on Sunday.

Among them were Matthias and Daniela Mair with their daughter Lina.

© Michaele Heske

Meanwhile, Rita Lohmaier from Isen taught her daughter to swim.

Because of the pandemic, Luzia (7) was unable to take a swimming course last year.

"35 percent of children no longer learn to swim," said the mother.

But this ability is enormously important: “Children drown quietly.

Swimming, cycling and skiing – those are just the basics.”

Little Lina, 18 months old, made her first steps in the shallow children's pool.

"Today is the outdoor pool premiere," said her mother Daniela Mair.

It is important to the villager that the daughter is not afraid of the water.

"The sooner she gets used to it, the better - and in the heat, splashing around is really fun."