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A bath cart was a wooden changing room on two or four wheels, which was pulled in the water. It offered in 18. and 19. Century above all Mrs. the possibility, "“morally correctly"” and ungesehen in the open sea to bathe. At this time it was considered as "“unschicklich"” and if a lady bathed in range of vision of men, even if the then usual bath clothing revealed hardly somewhat.

History

The bath cart the historical sources was invented according to around the year 1750 of the Englishman Benjamin Beale in Kent (England). There is however already a representation from the year 1736, which comes from John Setterington in the Scarborough Public LIBRARY and such a vehicle shows. From England the bath trucks in the other European seaside resorts spread. In Germany they emerged around 1800 first on Norderney and in After 1850 developed for more public swimming pools - first separately according to sexes - at the German coasts ever, so that the trucks were used only rarely. In Great Britain the legal sex separation ended when bathing in the year 1901.

Use

The bath cart stood first at the beach and by the users in road clothes was entered, whereby a cart was intended always only for women or only for men. Inside the windowless cab the bathers changed then, protected forwards curious views. There were banks, which offered four to six persons place. The cart was then pulled by a Kutscher with horse bottom plate in the deeper water. In some English bathing resorts one built however also wooden tracks in the water inside, it gave even constructions, which used steam engines and wire rope hoists.

Turned away from the rear door, the beach, was then over small stairs into the sea, whereby over these also still another tarpaulin was strained. A rope fastened to the cart served the nonswimmers as Halteleine. At this time above all most women of the better society could not swim, it were only bathed. During the bath the cart served as Sichtschutz. Afterwards it went on the same way back to the beach.

In an article of the Mecklenburger of day sheet from 25 August 1929 a time witness remembered: "“The bath trucks are roomy and comfortably furnished, of horses into the due depth of water are pulled, and if is abgebadet (which is signaled by drawing the bath screen up), in evenly the way again taken out. Such a bath from the bath truck costs 5 silver groschens for an individual person, for two together 6 silver groschens. At the beach delighted huts serve to accept the bathers to to it the row for bathing come."”

Literature

  • Gerhard Eckert: As the bath trucks rolled: Baltic Sea baths from to luck castle. and remarkable. Hamburg 1977
  • Refuge Prignitz: From the bath truck to the Strandkorb. To the history of the bath nature at the Baltic Sea coast. Leipzig 1977

See also

  • Bath culture

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