Linus Lingen

Linus Lingen is the leisure bath, sports swimming hall, open-air pool and sauna complex at Teichstraße 18 in Lingen (Ems). The operator gives a depth and a water temperature for each basin: an Attraktionsbecken 60 to 135 cm deep at 27 °C, a Sprungbecken 495 cm deep at 20 °C, an outdoor Planschbecken 30 cm deep at 28 °C, the Sportschwimmhalle with a movable floor (Hubboden) 30 to 199 cm at 27 °C, a Sportbecken with a 1 m and 3 m diving tower 180 to 380 cm deep at 27 °C, an indoor Planschbecken 45 cm deep at 33.5 °C, a Lehrschwimmbecken 25 to 125 cm at 31.5 °C, a Spaßbecken 125 cm at 31.5 °C, an Außenbecken 125 cm at 32 °C, a Massagebecken 110 cm at 32 °C and a sauna cooling pool 125 cm at 18 °C. The operator states a water area of over 1,000 m². The water is ordinary treated bathing water; the operator claims no thermal, mineral or brine water.

The slide is the 100 m Black-Hole flume. The operator further lists a current channel (Strömungskanal), the Spaßbecken and massage jets, and on the outdoor side water jets, a water play feature, a mud pump, a volleyball court and a tartan mound. The Sportschwimmhalle is reserved for schools and clubs. Entry, the changing areas and all basins are reachable by wheelchair: a ramp to the cash desk, a lift down to the bathing level, two wheelchair cabins with showers and a pool lifter; the sauna has a stairlift to the ground floor and the sauna garden.

The sauna world covers over 6,000 m² on two levels, indoors and outdoors, with seven sauna offerings. Indoors there are four: the infusion sauna 'Kleine Auszeit' in hemlock with temperatures up to 86 °C, a Sanarium at 50 to 55 °C with humidity up to about 50%, a steam bath at 45 to 49 °C with almost 100% humidity, and an infrared cabin at 35 to 40 °C; alongside them an ice fountain, a plunge pool and eight foot-warming basins at a heated bench. Outdoors there are three themed saunas: the Panoramasauna at 80 to 85 °C facing the pond, the Erlebnissauna at 85 to 90 °C in polar spruce, and the Erdsauna at 92 to 97 °C with an open fire. The sauna park also holds a Solehaus salt inhalation room with salt walls and a salt mist, an ornamental pond with a waterfall, a stone-grotto cooling area with Kneipp hoses, a small outdoor pool and a lawn with loungers. The sauna is textile-free, and Tuesdays are women-only in the whole sauna landscape, public holidays excepted.

The leisure bath opens 09:00–20:00 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 09:00–21:00 on Tuesday and Thursday, and 09:00–19:00 on Saturday, Sunday and public holidays; the sauna opens 09:00–22:00 Monday to Saturday and 09:00–20:00 on Sunday and holidays. Bathing time ends 15 minutes before the bathing area closes and the last admission is one hour before closing. The open-air pool runs a summer season only, while the indoor bath and sauna stay open year-round. Early swimming runs 06:30–08:00; the operator gives it once as Monday to Friday and once as Monday, Wednesday and Friday only.