Freizeitbad RIFF

The Riff is the spa and leisure bath of Bad Lausick in the Leipzig district of Saxony, standing east of the town centre at Am Riff, about 750 metres from the railway station. The swimming bath is wholly municipally owned, while private investors hold a share in the attached Riff Resort, a three-star house of 23 holiday apartments opened in December 2018 and linked to the bath by an overground bathrobe corridor. In December 2026 the operator will mark its thirty-first birthday.

The bathing hall is built around a cure pool with 25-metre lanes and a current channel, which the lifeguards release under full pressure at the top of each hour. Two large slides run from it. The Crazy River tyre slide is 125 metres long, and a gentler body slide, marketed as the Riesenrutsche, is 118 metres; both have a drop height of 12 metres and a minimum age of eight years. A diving pool with towers of three and five metres has four metres of water beneath it and is also used for taster scuba courses. Children have an indoor toddler pool with its own slide and, outdoors from April to October, a water playground with two facing water cannons, alongside a large playground, lawns for lying and ball games and a mud play area.

The wellness wing is the second half of the house. The operator names six saunas with their temperatures: a steam sauna at 45 °C, a scent grotto at 65 °C, a Finnish sauna at 90 °C, a Kelo log sauna at 85 °C, a Kelo earth sauna at 90 °C and a saunarium at 55 °C, with a published schedule of infusions through the day. Around them sit a whirlpool, experience showers, a cold plunge pool, an ice fountain, a separate rest house, a large natural sauna garden and a sauna outdoor pool held at 23 °C. The house is a certified Kneipp facility, with a Kneipp treading pool and an outdoor barefoot path, and offers massages, body wraps, an infrared cabin and packages combining admission with treatments.

The outdoor brine pool has a salt content the operator gives as 2 per cent, and medicinal water is served from the Aqua Vitales drinking fountain, which is how the spa water of Bad Lausick mostly reaches visitors. Bath and sauna open Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 22:00 and at weekends, in Saxon school holidays and on public holidays from 09:00 to 22:00; the house closes for annual maintenance for about a week each August and on 24 December.