Simhallsbadet, Swimming centre in Söder, Helsingborg, Sweden
Simhallsbadet is a swimming venue on Söder in Helsingborg, with a 25-metre pool, a teaching pool, gym, sauna and solarium. The pool section has a large vaulted copper roof with a skylight lantern and a fully glazed facade facing Carl Krooks gata; the two-storey entrance block on Södergatan has shops at street level. The walls are brown Helsingborg brick with Höganäs clinker in the pool section.
The site on Söder had earlier held a public bath house from 1902, designed by Alfred Hellerström. Mogens Mogensen presented plans in 1936 for a larger Idrottens hus with a pool; the scheme was reduced to the bath house alone. Built 1939–1941 in brown Helsingborg brick, it was inaugurated on 6 April 1941. Renovations followed in 2001 and 2005.
The pool's short side holds a large mosaic by Hugo Gehlin showing Helsingborg seen from the Sound. The building is classed as "särskilt värdefull bebyggelse" in the city's 2002 preservation programme. Its basement bowling alley later became a gym and premises for Helsingborgs Simsällskap.
The entrance is on Södergatan, with the glazed pool hall facing Carl Krooks gata. The building is in Helsingborg's Söder district, the city's most central bathhouse. The 2005 renovation adapted the pools for visitors with mobility or visual impairments.
The short side of the pool hall is decorated with a large mosaic by Hugo Gehlin depicting Helsingborg seen from the Sound. The basement once housed a bowling alley, later converted into a gym and premises for the Helsingborgs Simsällskap swimming club.
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