Stadtbad Hamborn, Public bathhouse in Hamborn district, Duisburg, Germany

Stadtbad Hamborn is a listed former public bathhouse in Duisburg-Hamborn, built from 1929 to plans by Franz Steinhauer. The flat-roofed Neue Sachlichkeit building has a brick facade and horizontal and vertical bands of Muschelkalk windows. Inside, two reinforced-concrete pools rested on sliding bearings to absorb mining subsidence.

The cornerstone was laid on 27 March 1929 for a flat-roofed building in the New Objectivity style, designed by Franz Steinhauer and budgeted at around 2.5 million Reichsmark. Work stopped during the Great Depression and resumed in 1936; the bath opened in 1938 with only one pool in use. A ceiling at risk of collapse closed it in 1998, and the nearby Rhein-Ruhr-Bad replaced it in 2003.

The bathhouse once served as a gathering place where residents from all backgrounds came together regularly. The building reflects a time when public bathing was essential to community life and social interaction.

The exterior of the building can be viewed and examined from the surrounding streets without any restrictions. Visitors interested in its architecture can observe the facade and decorative elements at their own pace throughout the day.

The two reinforced-concrete pool tanks were deliberately not connected to the building structure because of mining subsidence risk; each rested on three sliding bearings over separate concrete foundations. The left pool was never filled for swimming: from around 1945 a timber frame and sprung floor turned it into a sports hall with a two-row gallery.