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The 2024 Waldbad season ends at noon on Sunday, September 15

The days are shorter, the weather is cooler. The Waldbad season is coming to an end for this year, also in view of the weather forecasts. To round things off, there will be another dog swim on Monday, September 16.

After the Waldbad had to take a two-month break due to the floods at the beginning of June, the past few weeks since reopening on August 6 have been a complete success. The weather has cooperated perfectly and the many guests have given the Waldbad great support by visiting the facility. Holders of season tickets can recharge their purchased annual tickets in the coming year and use them again.

Stadtwerke CEO Lothar Böck would like to thank everyone who has taken advantage of the sunny days over the past few weeks. “We are glad that we were able to reopen the Waldbad after the flood damage – to everyone’s delight,” Böck continues.
This year’s season at the Günzburg Waldbad ends on September 15 at 12 noon. All weatherproof swimmers are invited to take advantage of the last few days until then. Afterwards, on Monday, September 16, between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., there will once again be a dog swim for the four-legged friends.

“We are particularly looking forward to the 2025 season, when the new building and catering area will be completed,” says Böck.

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The Günzburg Waldbad now has a support association

Bernd Röllig has been appointed as chairman. Goals are the promotion of swimming and communal health care.

Günzburg. Hot summer, cool water. Who doesn’t automatically associate these two words with a pool that guarantees refreshment and relaxation? The Waldbad Günzburg offers space for all generations to swim, sunbathe, play, laze around, meet friends or just relax at the end of the day. Now, the Förderverein Waldbad Günzburg was recently founded.

The Board of Directors and the management of Stadtwerke Günzburg decided to found a sponsorship association to provide long-term support for the Waldbad. The founding meeting took place on June 4, 2024 in the meeting room of Stadtwerke Günzburg and was attended by ten people. The elections of the seven-member board produced the following result:

  • 1st Chairman: Bernd Röllig
  • 2nd Chairman: Lothar Böck
  • Treasurer: Bettina Hofmiller
  • Secretary: Johann Stelzle
  • Assessors: Maria Buck-Fritz, Dagmar Specht, Helmut Lochbrunner

The purpose of the association is to promote swimming and communal health care. These statutory purposes are to be realized in particular by supporting the Waldbad in an idealistic and financial way, especially by raising funds to ensure the permanent preservation of the Waldbad. Funding can be provided, for example, for play equipment, sunshades and sails, benches and trees, as well as technical equipment in and around the pools. In order to realize this, a corresponding commitment from interested parties, friends and supporters of the Waldbad is required.

“Our aim is to gain many enthusiastic members and supporters for the association and also to develop exciting and interesting ideas for the long-term preservation of our unique Günzburg forest pool,” says Stadtwerke CEO Lothar Böck, who is also the second chairman of the Förderverein Waldbad Günzburg e.V..

Günzburg’s Waldbad is currently undergoing extensive modernization. In particular, a new entrance area, changing rooms and sanitary facilities as well as a new, attractive forecourt are intended to create an even more inviting atmosphere in future.

Der Vorstand des neu gegründeten Fördervereins Waldbad (von links): Johann Stelzle (Schriftführer), Maria Buck-Fritz (Beisitzerin), Lothar Böck (2. Vorsitzender), Bettina Hofmiller (Kassiererin), Bernd Röllig (1. Vorsitzender), Dagmar Specht (Beisitzerin), Helmut Lochbrunner (Beisitzer).
The board of the newly founded Förderverein Waldbad e.V. (from left): Johann Stelzle (secretary), Maria Buck-Fritz (assessor), Lothar Böck (2nd chairman), Bettina Hofmiller (treasurer), Bernd Röllig (1st chairman), Dagmar Specht (assessor), Helmut Lochbrunner (assessor).
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By Sandro Röllig

The Waldbad ist now open again

Many people in the region have been waiting weeks for this news:

Günzburg’s Waldbad has reopened. From today, 6 August, 12:30 pm, the pool is open again. You can splash and slide, swim and jump in the swimmer’s pool.

Until recently, it was completely unclear when and whether the Waldbad would be able to reopen at all this season. This was solely due to the high groundwater level. As long as the large underground water masses pressed against parts of the pools, the pools had to remain filled with water. There was too great a risk that the pool could otherwise lift and be severely damaged. Fortunately, the groundwater level finally dropped steadily and far enough to allow the pool area under the diving tower to be drained completely.
All the pools have now been completely cleaned, the technology is fully functional and the paths and sunbathing areas have been cleared of mud for some time. The pools have been filled with fresh water, chlorinated and sampled. Now that the tests have been positive, today’s reopening is imminent.
We are all looking forward to welcoming many visitors and hopefully many more wonderful summer days and enjoyable hours in our Waldbad.

Anyone who would like a pro-rata refund of their season ticket, as the bathing season is arithmetically half over, can register this directly at the Waldbad ticket office. However, Stadtwerke would be delighted if this was waived and the value was regarded as a donation to the pool, which was badly affected by the flood disaster.

Lord Mayor Gerhard Jauernig is delighted that the Waldbad, Günzburg’s summer meeting place, will still be open this season: “After the images of the floods at the beginning of June, nobody would have expected it to open this year. We are all the happier that we can make the pools and the beautiful park available to our citizens during the summer holidays.”

text: Michael Linder/Stadt Günzburg, Sandro Röllig/Stadtwerke Günzburg
photos: Julian Mandel/Stadtwerke Günzburg, Sandro Röllig/Stadtwerke Günzburg
Lord Mayor Gerhard Jauernig, swimming supervisor Günter Münzing and Lothar Böck, member of the Stadtwerke board, are looking forward to many more bathers this summer.

 

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Extensive clearing and cleaning work is underway.

The tidying and cleaning of the entire Waldbad is in full swing. The service buildings have already been cleaned and the area around the kiosk is already looking good again. However, the walkways and the sunbathing lawn are still very muddy and the areas around the pools still need to be cleaned.

The pools themselves cannot be drained at the moment. The groundwater level is still too high and there would be a risk that the pools would rise when the water is drained. So patience is still required here. Once the water has been drained, the extensive and time-consuming cleaning of the pools will begin.

We are therefore currently unable to give a date for reopening, we will of course inform you in good time, but ask for your patience.

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