Freizeitbad Nautilust

Freizeitbad Nautilust is a year-round indoor leisure bath with an attached outdoor area and a large sauna world, run in Gladenbach (Ferdinand-Köhler-Str. 42, 35075 Gladenbach) by Stadtmarketing-Energie-Bäder Gladenbach GmbH. The operator gives the swimming hall a net floor area of about 1,371 m² including water surfaces, and puts the total water area at about 1,130 m². It is broken down as follows: an indoor swimmers' pool of about 312 m²; an outdoor swimmers' pool of about 472 m² with a diving tower and diving pit and six 25 m lanes; an indoor non-swimmers' pool of about 125 m²; an indoor children's paddling pool of about 35 m² (about 472 m² indoors in total); an outdoor children's paddling pool of about 40 m² (about 658 m² outdoors in total); and an outdoor four-seasons pool of about 146 m². The hall also holds a steam bath, a tropical garden with a sun deck, an out-swimming channel, two solariums and a large flume given as about 52 linear metres. The operator publishes no water temperature for any of these pools.

The water is plain heated tap water. The operator does not describe it as brine (Sole), thermal or mineral; nothing here comes from a spring or a well.

The sauna department has a net indoor floor area of about 440 m² and holds a classic Finnish sauna, a Bionarium, a steam bath, experience showers, a foot-warming pool, a rest room, a solarium, an ice fountain, a plunge pool, a fireplace room, a wooden sun-deck terrace and a sauna bistro with a vitamin bar. The sauna garden outside covers about 2,000 m² and contains further log-cabin saunas with cold showers, a lawn, a pond and wooden terraces, an outdoor pool of about 35 m² with a water depth of 1.25 to 1.35 m, and a Kneipp pool of 11 m². The operator gives two accounts of the saunas in that garden: a single outdoor sauna with a cold shower, or two further outdoor log-cabin saunas, expandable to four. It also describes the barefoot Gehwohlpfad both as newly laid out and as still to be laid out. The operator gives no cabin temperatures. Above the bath sit 920 m² of fitness space with two course rooms and a gym, and 90 m² of physiotherapy with two treatment rooms and one therapy room.

Bathing and sauna areas open Monday to Friday 10:00-22:00, Saturday 10:00-21:00, and Sunday and public holidays 09:00-20:00; the summer outdoor area closes at 20:00 daily, early swimming runs Monday and Friday 07:15-08:45, and Tuesday is a women's sauna day (10:00-22:00). Last admission is 20:00 Monday to Friday, 19:00 Saturday and 18:00 on Sundays and holidays. The operator publishes no opening year.