Bad Wörishofen thermal baths
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| place | Bad Wörishofen , Germany | |||
| opening | May 1, 2004 | |||
| Visitors | over 700,000 per year | |||
| building-costs | 40 million euros | |||
| staff | approx. 200 | |||
| Website | www.therme-badwoerishofen.de | |||
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Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 12 ″ N , 10 ° 35 ′ 30 ″ E
The Bad Wörishofen thermal bath is a thermal bath in the Bad Wörishofen Kneipport . The minimum age for access to the thermal bath and sauna area is 16 years, the blueFUN sports and family pool has no age limit . A special architectural feature are the glass domes in the thermal bath and sauna area with a height of 18 m in the thermal bath (weight 260 t) and 10 m in the sauna paradise (weight 105 t).
history
The first thoughts on building a thermal bath in Bad Wörishofen go back to 1994. When these plans became more concrete in 1998, there were disputes between supporters and opponents of the project in the spa town, who feared that the Kneipp cure would be “watered down”. In May 1999 the city council passed a development plan which was supposed to enable the construction of a thermal bath, but which excluded the construction of hotels and the like in the immediate vicinity.
Basically, the plans to build a thermal bath on site met with skepticism; On November 10, 1999, the initiators of a referendum gave the mayor 1,220 signatures for their demand that the municipality should not contribute financially to the construction or operation of the future pool. In its subsequent meeting, the city council passed the resolution to comply with the petition. Nevertheless, the city joined the previously founded "GmbH for the promotion of cure and tourism in the Kneippland Unterallgäu as well as for the development and preparation of a thermal bath in the area of the city of Bad Wörishofen".
In the meantime, investors were also considering building the thermal bath in the nearby Ostallgäu town of Buchloe and not in Bad Wörishofen.
In February 2001, the investor Josef Wund presented his plans for the construction of the thermal bath to the Bad Wörishofer city council. The building application was then submitted to the Unterallgäu district office in mid-February.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place on July 12, 2001 in the presence of Minister of State Erwin Huber, Member of the State Parliament, District Administrator Hermann Haisch, Member of the Parliament Klaus Holetschek and Mayor Erwin Singer as well as the client Josef Wund.
The construction turned out to be difficult, as a meter-thick layer of humus had to be removed and a total of 32,000 cubic meters of gravel had to be piled up. In September 2001, the work was partially stopped following an order from the District Office, as a heaped wall on the Studtweidbach had not been approved.
The full building permit was granted in August 2002, the official start of construction was at the end of September of the same year. After completing the preparatory work, the official laying of the foundation stone was celebrated on May 30, 2003.
The lifting ceremony (topping-out ceremony) took place on October 22, 2003, when the 260-tonne dome was placed on the steel structure of the pool. The official opening took place on May 1st, 2004.
Thermal water
The thermal spring of the thermal bath is officially recognized and is extracted from a depth of 1100 m on the thermal bath property. The delivery temperature is 37 ° C; the main ingredients are iodide , fluoride and brine . The total water area is 1400 m², spread over 16 pools.
Subject areas
The thermal baths contain three areas: the thermal area, the sauna area and the blueFUN sports and family pool .
Thermal area
The thermal area covers approx. 5000 m² and has 10 pools. In addition to the pools filled with thermal water, there are also those with calcium , iodine , sulfur , selenium and brine -containing water as well as two Kneipp pools and two whirlpools. The offer is supplemented by an infrared lounger area, infrared heat cabins, three color therapy rooms , a textile sauna and two steam baths.
Sauna area
The 2000 m² sauna area "SPA Juwel Saunaparadies" offers eleven themed saunas, a steam bath, an indoor and outdoor pool and a whirlpool.
Sports and family pool
The sports and family pool "blueFUN" is attached to the thermal bath and has a teaching pool, a toddler pool, a 25 m long wide slide, a 20 m long children's slide and a 25 m swimmer pool. The 140 m long white water canyon in the outdoor area was closed in September 2011 due to a technical defect and has not been in operation since then.
Awards
- 2007: 3rd place in the industry ranking in the 2007 swimming pool study by the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
- 2008: Test winner in the Antenne Bayern bath test in the category "Best wellness / sauna area"
- 2009: Nominated for the ADAC Tourism Prize 2010
literature
- Werner Käß, Hanna Käß (ed.): German bath book. Description of 163 state-certified spas in Germany. Gebrüder Borntraeger Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-510-65241-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.biedenkapp-stahlbau.de
- ↑ Mayor Singer according to Memminger Zeitung of July 14, 2001, p. 40.
- ↑ Memminger Zeitung of April 29, 2004, p. 4.
- ↑ Memminger Zeitung of May 22, 1999, p. 49.
- ↑ https://www.mehr-demokratie.de/hintergrund/buergerbegehren-in-den-kommunen/datenbank-buergerbegehren/?no_cache=1&tx_buergerbegehren_list%5Buid%5D=1854&tx_buergerbegehren_list%5Baction%5D=show&tx_buergerbegehren_list%5Bcontroller%5D=Buergerbegehren&cHash= 1b5c00c1cbc8685f91e689f0171843eb
- ↑ Memminger Zeitung of December 15, 1999, p. 26.
- ↑ Memminger Zeitung of March 24, 2000, May 11, 2000, September 23, 2000
- ↑ Memminger Zeitung of February 22, 2001, p. 26.
- ↑ Memminger Zeitung of April 5, 2001, p. 28.
- ↑ Memminger Zeitung of July 14, 2001, p. 40.
- ↑ Memminger Zeitung of September 10, 2001, p. 26.
- ↑ Memminger Zeitung of September 20, 2001, p. 30.
- ↑ Memminger Zeitung of August 5, 2002, p. 28.
- ↑ Memminger Zeitung of November 14, 2002, p. 25.
- ↑ Memminger Zeitung of June 3, 2003, p. 30, Wahlkreisbüro MdL Klaus Holetschek
- ↑ Memminger Zeitung of October 23, 2003, pp. 1, 5.
- ↑ Memminger Zeitung of April 29, 2004, p. 4.
- ↑ www.erdwerk.com
- ↑ www.therme-badwoerishofen.de
- ↑ www.bayern-tourist.info
- ↑ www.allgäu.de
- ↑ www.toschkatourismus.com ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 84 kB)
