Amalienbad
Opened on 8 July 1926 to designs by Karl Schmalhofer and Otto Nadel as the showpiece of Red Vienna's municipal bath programme, with a 14 metre high swimming hall, a diving tower and about 24,000 m² of coloured wall tiles and mosaics. The sauna has separate women's and men's sections with a Finnish sauna, a bio sauna, a steam bath, a whirlpool and warm and cold plunge pools.
Getting in
- Public transport
- U1 to Reumannplatz, in front of the bath.
- Address
- Reumannplatz 23, 1100 Wien
Entry, hours and rules
- Entry
- Sauna: Erwachsene (sauna, adults, 5 hours)€17.70
- Sauna: Erwachsene ermäßigt (sauna, adults reduced)€14.40
- Sauna: Jugendliche, born 2008 to 2011 (sauna, young people)€14.40
- Sauna: Abendkarte (sauna evening ticket, last 2.5 hours before closing)€14.40
- Sauna: Nachzahlung pro Stunde (sauna, each extra hour)€3.60
- Hallenbad: Erwachsene (pool, adults, 5 hours)€8.10
- Hallenbad: Kurzzeitkarte (pool, 2.5 hours)€6.10
- Hallenbad: Kinder, born 2012 to 2019 (pool, children)€2.80
- Hours
- Monclosed
- Tue13:00-21:00
- Wed09:00-21:00
- Thu09:00-21:00
- Fri09:00-21:00
- Sat08:00-19:30
- Sun08:00-17:30
- Swimwear and rules
- Textile-free: the city's bath rules make the sauna area a nude area, used without swimwear, with a towel to sit and lie on. Sessions: a women's section plus a mixed section on Tuesday 13:00 to 16:30, Wednesday and Saturday; separate women's and men's sections on Thursday 09:00 to 16:30, Friday and Sunday 08:00 to 13:00; mixed on Tuesday and Thursday from 16:30 and Sunday from 13:00.
- Children
- 14 and over. Sauna from age 14 (bath rules). Pool: children born 2020 or later free.
- Tickets
- Day ticket, no time slot
- Official site
- wien.gv.at
- Facilities
- SaunaSteam roomIndoor poolRestaurantLockersChanging roomsShowersToiletsStep-free access
About Amalienbad
The bath is named after Amalie Pölzer, a Social Democrat who in 1919 was the first woman elected to the city council in Favoriten, and at the opening the Arbeiter-Zeitung hailed a bath named after a working woman. The swimming hall once had a glass roof that could be opened, and there were air-bathing decks on the flat roofs; the larger-than-life figures on the facade are by Karl Stemolak. Bombing closed it on 5 November 1944, and it was back in full use only on 9 April 1952. A restoration from 1981 to 1986 by Erich Mülbacher and Erich Schlöss added a second swimming hall and took down the old boiler house and both its chimneys.