Kaiser-Friedrich-Therme
A bathhouse built on the foundations of a Roman sweating bath, with an Irish-Roman sequence of warm rooms, steam baths and saunas over 1,450 square metres around a historic swimming pool. Two thermal seat pools hold Wiesbaden spring water at 37 and 39 °C, and a drinking fountain is fed from the Große Adlerquelle.
Getting in
- Parking
- Own car park: EUR 6 for the first 4 hours for bath guests, then EUR 1 per started half hour; the ticket is paid at the bath's cash desk
- Public transport
- Webergasse stop, bus lines 1 and 8
- Address
- Langgasse 38-40, 65183 Wiesbaden
Entry, hours and rules
- Entry
- Erwachsene ab 16 Jahren, Montag-Donnerstag, min. 2 Std. (adults 16 and over, Monday to Thursday, 2 hours)€15
- Erwachsene ab 16 Jahren, Montag-Donnerstag, min. 3 Std. (adults 16 and over, Monday to Thursday, 3 hours)€20
- Erwachsene ab 16 Jahren, Montag-Donnerstag, min. 4 Std. (adults 16 and over, Monday to Thursday, 4 hours)€25
- Erwachsene ab 16 Jahren, Freitag-Sonntag und Feiertag, min. 2 Std. (adults 16 and over, Friday to Sunday and holidays, 2 hours)€17
- Erwachsene ab 16 Jahren, Freitag-Sonntag und Feiertag, min. 3 Std. (adults 16 and over, Friday to Sunday and holidays, 3 hours)€22
- Erwachsene ab 16 Jahren, Freitag-Sonntag und Feiertag, min. 4 Std. (adults 16 and over, Friday to Sunday and holidays, 4 hours)€27
- Hours
- Mon10:00-22:00
- Tue10:00-22:00
- Wed10:00-22:00
- Thu10:00-22:00
- Fri10:00-22:00
- Sat10:00-22:00
- Sun10:00-22:00
- Swimwear and rules
- Textile-free: the operator calls it a 'textilfreier Badepalast' (textile-free bathing palace). Thursday is a textile day (Textiltag), held since 2 January 2020. The sweating rooms may only be entered unclothed; the bar needs a bathrobe or a towel wrapped around the body.
- Children
- 16 and over. Operator: 'Der Zutritt ist erst ab 16 Jahren gestattet.' (Admission only from 16.).
- Tickets
- Day ticket, no time slot
- Official site
- mattiaqua.de
- Facilities
- ToiletsShowersChanging roomsLockersCaféSaunaSteam roomIndoor poolParkingStep-free accessNaturist areaTowel hire
About Kaiser-Friedrich-Therme
City architect August O. Pauly built the bath between 1910 and 1913 on the site of the old Zum Adler bathhouse, modelled on the baths of antiquity, and it is fed by the Adlerquelle, which rises at about 64.6 °C. The tepidarium and sudatorium keep their original coloured glazed tiles from the workshop of Josef Vinecký, a pupil of Henry van de Velde, and are heated partly by radiators and partly in the Roman way, through hypocausts under the tiled floor. In the swimming hall, painted figures on the narrow window piers seem to carry the cornice above five metres of glazed wall. A clinic moved into the building in 1962 and the bath shrank; it was restored and enlarged again in 1998 and 1999.