AquariUM

AquariUM is the bath of the Uckermark town of Schwedt/Oder, part of the Stadtwerke Schwedt group. The water is ordinary heated pool water — the operator makes no thermal, mineral or brine claim — and the house is divided into three parts: a Spaßbad, a Sportbad and a Saunalandschaft, with two fitness areas and a rehabilitation-sport department alongside.

The fun bath covers 600 m² of water surface and is held at 30–32 °C water and 32–35 °C air. It has an 80-metre adventure slide („Erlebnisrutsche 80 m“) on which the rider chooses between sound and light effects, a fun pool with a current channel, a children's slide, massage jets, neck showers, a bubble pool, a toddler area, a pirate ship with floor bubblers and a waterfall, a play grotto with spray jets, and a gallery with a snack bar. The outdoor complex, with a heated outdoor basin, a toddler basin, a lawn and a playground, opens weather-permitting from roughly May to September. On Thursday afternoons outside the school holidays the fun bath basin is pre-heated for baby swimming, when the operator states the water reaches 34 °C.

The sports bath holds a competition-standard 25-metre pool with eight lanes at 27–28 °C water and 29–31 °C air, an 8 × 21 m movable floor allowing depths to be set from 0.30 to 2.00 m, an electronic timing system for competitions, a teaching pool of 10 × 6 m at 1.30 m depth, spectator stands and lying areas.

The sauna landscape comprises Trockensauna, Erdsauna, Panoramasauna, Saunagarten, Dampfsauna, Sanarium, Infrarotkabine, Whirlpool, Tauchbecken, a rest room and a sauna bar. The operator gives 50 °C at 100 % humidity in the steam sauna, up to 110 °C in the wood-fired earth sauna set into a hill in the sauna garden, 80–90 °C in the Finnish panorama sauna with its large window onto the garden, 50–60 °C with colour-light therapy in the Sanarium, and 85–100 °C at under 25 % humidity in the dry sauna. Every Monday outside public holidays and school holidays the sauna area is women-only. Under-16s may use the sauna area only when accompanied by an adult, and under-7s the whole facility only when accompanied.

Hours: fun bath Monday to Friday 10:00–21:00, Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 9:00–21:00; sports bath Monday, Wednesday and Friday 8:00–21:00, Tuesday and Thursday 7:00–21:00, weekends and holidays 9:00–21:00; in Brandenburg school holidays the weekend hours apply on every day. The sauna landscape's regular hours are Monday to Friday 10:00–21:00 and weekends 9:00–21:00; until further notice the operator opens it on weekdays from 14:00 only.

The bath closes completely for a few weeks each year for its annual maintenance.