Bad, Art Nouveau public bath in Coburg, Germany

The Ernst-Alexandrinen-Volksbad was a public bathing facility in Coburg with Art Nouveau design features. The surviving entrance structure displays decorative stonework and classical architectural details from its opening year in 1907.

The facility was built in 1907 on the initiative of Duchess Alexandrine for the local population. The main swimming hall was demolished in 1977, but the entrance building survived with its original features intact.

Locals nicknamed it the Alexandrinenbad, and a year after it opened the Alexandrinenbrunnen fountain was inaugurated nearby in memory of the donor. The bath was named after Duchess Alexandrine and her husband Ernst II. In the 1950s the Jugendstil fireplace was removed and the boiler house converted into a sauna.

The surviving portico building at Alfred-Sauerteig-Anlage 1, formerly Löwenstraße 30, was restored for 1.14 million DM and finished in 1981; it later housed a branch of the BKK FTE health insurance fund. Only this entrance wing remains, so visitors see the facade and entrance hall from outside.

Within a few years of opening, the bath attracted more than 180,000 visitors annually by 1914. This popularity reveals how much the population valued access to such modern facilities.