Creil swimming pool

The Creil swimming pool was the first swimming pool in the Oise department ! It was inaugurated in 1926.

Architecture that meets social needs

As was often the case in the 1920s and 1930s, the establishment includes a swimming pool and shower baths which replaced the bateau-lavoir de l'Espérance, meeting social needs in terms of hygiene, health and sports education.

Destroyed during the Second World War

The town of Creil was heavily damaged by bombing during the Second World War. The pool is then out of useit is then occupied for a time by a cinema.

It is necessary to It was not until the 1950s that the town decided to restore the swimming pool to its original function. and to undertake renovation, modernisation and extension work, which took place between 1961 and 1963.

The pool will close again for works in the summer of 2010 and will reopen in the summer of 2013.

A plaid against the Viking invasion

A surprising anecdote: in 851, Charles II the Bald, King of the Franks, organised a plea: a meeting of the lords of his kingdom, during which the king asked them for advice on how to govern. The king wanted help in dealing with the Viking invasion. This meeting took place on the site of today's swimming pool, where a Merovingian palace once stood, some of whose beams were found during building work.