À propos de ce lieu
The Kaiser-Friedrich-Therme is the grandest surviving monument to Wiesbaden's bathing culture, a Jugendstil palace of marble, mosaic and rising steam. Built between 1910 and 1913 to designs by the architect August Pauly, it was championed by Kaiser Wilhelm II, who felt that one of Europe's foremost spa towns still lacked a truly public bathhouse. When it opened in 1913 the baths were named in honour of his father, Emperor Friedrich III. The builders discovered Roman sweat-bath foundations on the site, confirming that soldiers of Aquae Mattiacorum had bathed here nearly two thousand years earlier. Today the Therme offers a complete Irish-Roman bathing ritual through a sequence of warm-air rooms, steam baths and cold plunges, fed by the hot Adler spring. Its crowning glory is a domed sweat hall clad in shimmering majolica tiles, counted among the most beautiful bathing rooms in Germany.
À retenir
- 1913 year — Kaiser Wilhelm II opened Wiesbaden's first public thermal bathhouse here
- 64.6 °C — The temperature of the hot Adler spring that still feeds the baths
- 1910 year — Construction began in the Jugendstil style to designs by architect August Pauly
📍 Langgasse 38-40, 65183, Wiesbaden