AquaMagis Plettenberg, Swimming center in Plettenberg, Germany
AquaMagis Plettenberg is a municipal leisure pool opened in February 2003, combining the town's former outdoor and indoor pools with a slide area and a sauna landscape. It holds twelve water slides, several pools, a pool bar, a current channel, a wave pool, ten saunas and a fitness studio, plus on-site overnight accommodation.
The facility opened in 2003 and significantly shaped the recreational landscape of the region. It was built as a modern water center to provide new leisure opportunities for visitors from across the area.
The name AquaMagis combines water with the Latin word for magic. The slide area grew because visitors came mainly for the slides rather than the sauna, so the original Black Hole tube slide and Rafting Slide were replaced by newer rides from 2008 onward. The SauerlandSURFER and CrazySURFER, added in 2015, were the world's first stand-up slides.
The facility is accessible year-round because all pools are indoors with comfortable water temperatures maintained throughout. You should allow enough time to explore and enjoy the different areas at a relaxed pace.
In 2015 AquaMagis opened SauerlandSURFER and CrazySURFER, described by the operator as the world's first standing slides; in 2018 Storm Force 1 followed as the world's first wind slide. The 2025 ShootingSTAR free-fall slide is, per the operator, Germany's highest outdoor slide.
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