Balnevia
The Art Nouveau façade of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Therme in Wiesbaden

Wiesbaden/Germany

Kaiser-Friedrich-Therme

An Art Nouveau bathhouse in Wiesbaden built over Roman-era foundations and fed by the town's scalding Kochbrunnen springs.

Oliver Abels (SBT) / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Quelltemperatur
66°C
Badetemperatur
38°C
Baden
Innen
Gegründet
1913

The Kaiser-Friedrich-Therme is a Jugendstil bath house in the centre of Wiesbaden, opened in 1913 above the remains of Roman thermal baths. Majolica tiling, an Irish-Roman circuit and a colonnaded pool hall survive largely intact.

Balnevia-Sicht

Warum hingehen

This is bathing as architecture: a complete Art Nouveau interior still in daily use, in a spa town whose hot springs have run without interruption since antiquity.

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Das Wasser

Thermalwasser

Quelle
Kochbrunnen
Mineralisierung
Sodium chloride thermal water
Charakter
Hot saline springs long used for drinking and bathing cures

Geschichte

Wiesbaden's springs were exploited by the Romans as Aquae Mattiacorum. The present building opened in 1913 and was restored in 1999 after wartime and postwar alterations.

Praktische Informationen

The baths are textile-free throughout, in the German tradition; there are designated women-only days. Minimum age is sixteen.

Offizielle Website

Anreise

A few minutes on foot from the Kochbrunnen and the Wiesbaden old town.

Lage

Wiesbaden, Germany50.0862, 8.2405Auf der Balnevia-Karte ansehen

Verwandte Orte

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