carpesol Spa Therme
The carpesol sits in Bad Rothenfelde, where brine was pumped for salt from 1724 until the saltworks closed in 1972; of its pools under a glass dome and outdoors, two take local natural brine at 3 % and 12 %. Above the baths are two sauna floors, a Roman-Irish ritual with ten stations on the first and a panorama sauna on the second.
Getting in
- Parking
- Bath car park entered from Hannoversche Straße; discounted with a QR code from reception, card payment only
- Public transport
- NordWestBahn Osnabrück to Bielefeld (Haller Willem) to Dissen/Bad Rothenfelde, 2.2 km from the bath; buses to Gesundheitstherme or Bad Rothenfelde ZOB (VOS timetable)
- Address
- Frankfurter Str. 15, 49214 Bad Rothenfelde
Entry, hours and rules
- Entry
- Erwachsene Basistarif Therme 120 min (adults, thermal baths, 120 minutes) (Monday to Friday; weekends and holidays 15.50 EUR; 1.50 EUR per extra 30 minutes started)€14
- Erwachsene Tagestarif Therme ab 5 h (adults, thermal baths, day ticket from 5 hours) (Weekends and holidays 24.50 EUR)€23
- Ermäßigt Basistarif Therme 120 min (reduced: children 3 to 14, students, 120 minutes) (Weekends and holidays 12.50 EUR; under-3s free)€11
- Family Tarif 1+1 Tageskarte (1 adult and 1 child up to 14, day ticket) (Weekends and holidays 22.50 EUR)€21
- Sauna inkl. Thermennutzung, Basistarif 120 min (sauna with thermal baths, 120 minutes) (Weekends and holidays 29 EUR)€26
- Sauna inkl. Thermennutzung, Tagestarif ab 5 h (sauna with thermal baths, day ticket) (Weekends and holidays 38 EUR)€35
- Hours
- Mon09:00-22:00
- Tue09:00-22:00
- Wed09:00-22:00
- Thu09:00-22:00
- Fri09:00-22:00
- Sat09:00-22:00
- Sun09:00-22:00
- Swimwear and rules
- Swimwear in the pools (no underwear). The sauna floors are textile-free: a towel or pestemal may be worn, swimwear is not allowed. A textile sauna by the outdoor pool. Mondays the first-floor sauna is for women only (not on Lower Saxony or NRW holidays); the second floor is mixed every day.
- Children
- Saunas from 15; children under 14 swimming without an adult need a swimming certificate.
- Tickets
- Day ticket, no time slot
- Official site
- carpesol.de
- Facilities
- ToiletsShowersChanging roomsRestaurantSaunaSteam roomIndoor poolOutdoor poolParkingStep-free accessNaturist areaTowel hire
About carpesol Spa Therme
The operator reads the name as 'use the salt'. Its brine comes from a Zechstein salt dome about 3,500 m below the woods of the Kleiner Berg, where spring water slowly dissolved the crystals, and from 1826 the town used it as a cure as well as for salt. The glass dome over the thermal pool is lit in changing colours once dusk falls. Several saunas are named after places in the Teutoburg Forest: the outdoor Velmers after a lookout platform, the Sparren after Bielefeld's Sparrenburg and the Extern after the Externsteine rocks.