Bartholomäustherme

The Bartholomäustherme occupies a historic public-bath building at Bartholomäusstraße 95 in Hamburg-Barmbek, run by the municipal operator Bäderland Hamburg. The house dates from 1909, when it opened as the Stadtbad Barmbek-Uhlenhorst together with a library and a registry office; it was rebuilt in 1969 and closed for refurbishment in 2021. Bäderland describes the result as a carefully modernised Jugendstil bath whose ground floor was redesigned in 2022 while the historic core was kept.

The bathing offer is small and warm rather than athletic. The operator names a single Thermenbecken at 34 °C with massage jets, and two aromatised steam baths, a eucalyptus steam bath and a blossom steam bath, plus an experience shower. The operator claims no spring, well or brine for this house: the water is plain heated tap water and the word Therme here denotes the warm-water wellness concept, not a thermal source. Bäderland's own brine facility, the Kaifu-Sole, is a different address. Every evening from 17:00 the hall switches to soft light and quiet music, and children are not admitted to either the therme or the sauna at any time.

The sauna floor has a 100 °C Kaminsauna, a 90 °C Mediensauna, an 80 °C sauna, a 70 °C sauna, a Roman sweat bath and a steam bath, with cold-water treatments, a foot-warming basin, a quiet room, a sleeping room and a media room. Thursday is women's sauna day. Bäderland publishes the bath's opening hours week by week, with the till closing an hour before the bath does; the Thermenbar keeps 10:00–21:00. Access to the building is not step-free, although a pool lift, accessible showers, changing rooms and toilets and a shower wheelchair are provided.