Even a savior has to stick to the rules in the Bammental forest swimming pool. Screenshot: YouTube / boenoemoen
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By Benjamin Miltner
Bammental. Poolside concerts, fireworks, night swimming with a light show, recently a tent settlement with an overnight stay and a vaccination campaign on Friday (see article on the left): The forest swimming pool has already experienced some extraordinary things – now even a Jesus walking across the water. Yes, you read that right. An idea at the kiosk regulars table turned into a professional video shoot, the result of which has been causing a sensation on the Internet since Sunday evening.
The little film was viewed almost 6000 times on the YouTube video portal by Tuesday evening. “We would never have expected such numbers, we have already celebrated the 2000 mark,” says Carsten Kresser happily. It was a team led by the Bammental swimming master, loyal visitors and friends of the baths, who provided for the biblical miracle in the Elsenz valley community and turned the forest swimming pool into the Sea of Galilee.
The original video from the Bammental outdoor pool
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Two feet, a white robe, the swimming pool – this is how the video starts. Accompanied by mystical-dramatic music, a tall man marches first on the separation between the non-swimmer and swimmer pool – and then across the water. The person leaning towards Jesus passes critically looking swimmers who shake their heads, looks up at the sky and finally falls into the water.
A high-pitched whistle and the lifeguard’s voice can be heard; “Hey, Longer! But don’t put your clothes in or uffs of the water”, snorts Kresser in the broadest dialect of the Kurpfälzer region and adds: “Oh God, now the nice Mol has showered, I’m going to lose!” So whistled together, Jesus runs out of the water with his head bowed and throttled. “Bammental forest swimming pool – you can really swim with us!”
“We are a family bathroom where everyone sticks together and we’ve done funny things a lot,” says Kresser. “This video was only meant to be a joke and in the end it turned out to be quite professional.” The film was shot over three hours after the end of the swimming pool, and individual scenes were repeated to perfection. DLRG member and amateur filmmaker Benjamin Zeidler provided the necessary equipment with a drone including camera and handheld camera with tripod. “As a paramedic, he was there when filming ‘Alarm für Cobra 11’,” said the lifeguard.
One more question remains: Can the Bammental Jesus really walk across the water? “Yes, of course,” assures Kresser and adds with a smile: “We helped with a transparent acrylic sheet.” Because it was only two meters long and the robe had to stay dry until the end, the performer was repeatedly carried to the right place by swimmers.
Update: Tuesday, August 10, 2021, 7.15 p.m.
Until the Bammental lifeguard roars
A video from the Bammental forest swimming pool is currently making the rounds. It is very funny.
Bammental. (ppf) If the Bammental lifeguard had been responsible for safety on the Sea of Galilee, according to the delivery around 2000 years ago, then the famous “walk across the water” could have been something like this.
This funny video of the Bammental forest swimming pool is currently being advertised on the video platform YouTube. The masterpiece with the title “Go swimming with us!” shows a man dressed in a white sheet touching the surface of the water with bare feet. Instead of sinking in, he walks over the swimmer’s pool step by step until he finally reaches the center.
But then the lifeguard becomes aware of what is happening and courageously intervenes with a high-pitched whistle from the whistle. In a broad dialect, he refers to the current bathing regulations – until the long-haired man with a beard literally pulls the water away from under his feet.
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