Meskó Csaba: Thermal Baths - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

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Újpest medicinal baths and swimming pool 114-120 Árpád út, District IV

The popular demand for bathing facilities in the township of Újpest was for a long time satisfied by the Erzsébet steam and tub baths, an establishment built around the turn of the century. The water required for their operation was supplied by a shaft well in the baths’ own courtyard; this water was then heated in a boiler. As the new district emerged and the importance of baths for hygienic purposes diminished, there appeared a growing demand for a medicinal baths and swimming pool.

After the ceremonial laying of the foundation stone in September 1971, the complex, built to plans by László Bene and Ferenc Szentmártoni, was inaugurated on 6 November 1974. The baths’ medicinal water was supplied from the Széchenyi Baths. The two-storey building is divided by a spacious foyer whose walls are decorated with Jenő Barcsay’s glass mosaic. To the left of this hall is the medicinal bath, to its right the swimming pool. The latter features a 25 metre by 11 pool with water at 26°C and another, learners' pool at 28°C, whose measurements are 5

The swimming pool of the Újpest Medicinal Baths

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