NORSK
Dr. Wieseners
Folkebad ble opprettet i folkehelsens ånd: Nyere forskning i
andre halvdel av 1800-tallet viste at renslighet ikke bare
var en dyd, men også helsefremmende. Men badet ble også reist
til minne om overlegen ved Bergens kommunale sykehus, Joachim
Wiesener.
Joachim Wiesener
ønsket seg rimelige offentlige bad for folk med lav inntekt. Dette
ivret han for i mange år, men så få resultater før han døde i 1888.
Etter hans død ble det samlet inn midler, og badet sto klart til
åpning 7. september 1889.
I dag blir
bygningen benyttet som pub – et vannhull har overtatt etter et
annet. Interiøret er endret, men eksteriøret er stort sett identisk
med 1889-utgaven av Dr. Wieseners folkebad. Puben drives i
historisk ånd, og har originaltegninger hengende på veggen, sammen
med badenymfer og informasjon om badets historie. Dette opplyser
puben Dr Wieseners om Dr. Wieseners Folkebad:
"Dr. Wieseners
Folkebad åpnet 7. september 1889. Badet ble reist av byens borgere
i takknemlighet for Dr. Joachim Wieseners (1843-1888) virke som
lege og hans innsats som samfunnsborger:
”…for at
skaffe den mindre bemidlede Del af Byens Befolkning billige bad og
for gjennom denne samfundsgavnlige Foranstaltning at reise afdøde
Dr. Wiesener et Minde.”
Badet kostet
ferdig oppført kr. 20 323,46, og ble finansiert ved innsamlede
midler og bidrag fra Bergens Sparebank. Tomten ble stilt gratis til
disposisjon av Bergenhus Festning. Området der badet står, het den
gang Tamburengen.
Første driftsåret 1889/90 talte 41540 badende. Billettprisen var
10 øre for voksne og 5 øre for barn.
Fra 1889 til 1896 ble badet administrert av Arbeidskomiteen for Dr.
Wieseners Folkebad, D.hr. Overlege Klaus Hansen og Konsul Falck. I
denne perioden ble driften av badet bl.a. støttet av Bergens Samlag
for Brændevinshandel.
Bergen kommune overtok badet 1. januar 1896. Badet var kommunalt
drevet fram til sentralbadet åpnet i 1960. Fra 1961 til 1982 var
badet leiet ut til privat drift."
Dr. Wieseners Folkebad har vært privateid siden 1988, og har vært
pub siden 1992.
ENGLISH
Doctor Wiesener’s public bath house was established as part of a
larger agenda – public health. Research in the second part of the
nineteenth century proved that cleanliness was more than a virtue -
it was healthy as well. The public bath was also built in memory of
the chief physician at the public hospital in Bergen, Dr Joachim
Wiesener.
Joachim
Wiesener wanted reasonably priced public baths for people with low
income. He pursued this thought eagerly for many years, but saw few
results in his lifetime. He died in 1888. After his death, a
fund-raising campaign was held and the public bath was built. The
grand opening took place on 7 September 1889.
The bath
house was built by German standards, where Professor Oskar Lassar
had constructed a simple and reasonably priced shower bath house,
allowing people of low income to take showers on a regular
basis.
When finished the bath house cost a total of 20 323 Norwegian
kroner and 46 øre. It was financed through the fund-raising and an
added contribution from a local bank. The property was made
available by Bergenhus Fort. On the bath’s first year 41 540 people
came to shower.
Bergen
already had a number of outdoor baths, such as the sea baths at
Sydnes and Nordnes, Bonges Bath House by Store Lungegårdsvann,
Elsero Sea Bath near Gamle Bergen Museum and Gjelsviks Bath House
at Møhlenpris. When Dr Wiesener’s bath house opened it only offered
indoor showers. People were given the opportunity to wash
regularly, and the children in the neighborhood were frequent
users. The bath house was a simple construction, unable to offer
fancy cure baths like the bath house in the public hospital in
Bergen. Also Marken Public Bath established in 1906, offered cure
baths to some extent, with its steam bath and sauna in addition to
the regular showers.
The city took
ownership of the bath in 1896. It was run by the city until Bergen
got a large swimming bath in 1960 - Sentralbadet. After this, the
bath has been privately let out. The bath house has been a public
house since 1992. Although the interior has changed, the façade is
close to identical with the 1889 version of the bath house. The pub
owners also seem to have taken an interest in the history of the
house, displaying charts and architectural drawings on the walls
and other information about the bath’s
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