Lohengrin Therme, Thermal spa complex in Bayreuth, Germany.
Lohengrin Therme is a thermal spa in Bayreuth with several indoor pools, sauna areas, and rest zones. The building brings together swimming, sweating, and resting under one roof.
The spa was first planned as a conversion of the former cotton mill in Friedrichsthal, but the bore was instead sunk in 1990 on the former ASV Laineck football ground. Warm water appeared at 620 m, and on 11 October 1990 drilling reached 1122 m. The first sod for the 40-million project, then called Kurmittelhaus Friedrichstherme, was cut in October 1997; the bath opened in 1999 and was enlarged in 2005.
The spa is named after Lohengrin, the knight of the Holy Grail in Wagner's opera, which was premiered in Bayreuth in 1850 under Franz Liszt. The Eremitage park across the Roter Main holds the Old Palace with its fountains and the New Palace built for Margravine Wilhelmine, who wrote opera libretti there. A footbridge links the spa grounds to the park.
The spa lies in Seulbitz, on the far side of the Roter Main from the Eremitage park, to which a bridge connects the grounds. Children under six are not admitted, as the pools are unsuitable for them. Several doctors' practices stand in the immediate surroundings, and the functional building next door, meant for a café and boutique, is partly empty.
The thermal water is drawn from a depth of 1122 m in the Bayreuth district of Laineck, not on the Seulbitz site itself. The borehole reached warm water at 620 m in 1990, and on 11 October 1990 it struck water over 30 °C at 1122 m; the water now arrives at 36 °C.
The community of curious travelers
AroundUs brings together thousands of curated places, local tips, and hidden gems, enriched daily by 94,257 contributors worldwide.
