Miramar Freizeitzentrum Weinheim, Water park and wellness center in Weinheim, Germany
Miramar Freizeitzentrum is a water park, salt-water spa and sauna complex at the Waidsee lake in Weinheim. Its indoor pool area holds a wave pool fed by a 58-metre open slide, a children's pool, a massage pool with pool bar, a whirlpool and an outdoor pool with a current channel. Ten water slides include the double-looping Hurricane Loop; the colour scheme of the slide towers was designed by artist Carsten Kruse.
The municipal Miramar opened on 26 October 1973 after three years of construction, built for five million Deutsche Mark to designs by the brothers Jan and Waldemar Lippert, with the town of Weinheim and Rhein-Neckar AG as partners. The oil price crisis and falling visitor numbers forced a sale, and in 1987 Heinz Steinhart bought the complex, debts included, for one Deutsche Mark. The sauna area had opened in 1974, and the first FKK evening followed on 2 January 1977.
The name Miramar combines the Spanish mira (to look) and mar (sea), meaning "view of the sea". The sauna area is a nudist (FKK) zone at all times, and on Tuesday evenings from 7 pm the whole complex becomes textile-free, except during school holidays in Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. Monthly long sauna nights are held.
The bus stop Weinheim, Waidsee/Miramar sits directly in front of the baths, linking to Weinheim main station and trains toward Mannheim; the site is about 20 minutes by car from Mannheim. On Tuesday evenings from 7 pm all areas are textile-free, except during school holidays in Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. A tram painted by Carsten Kruse stands on its own tracks beside the entrance and cannot be entered.
The center uses geothermal energy for heating, drawing water from underground sources that arrives naturally warm. This sustainable energy source allows the complex to operate heated pools and spa areas year-round more efficiently.
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