NaturTherme Templin

NaturTherme Templin is a thermal brine bath in the Brandenburg town of Templin, roughly an hour north of Berlin. The water is not plain heated tap water: it comes from a borehole drilled in 1998, and the operator writes that the healing water rises from a depth of 1,650 metres. The operator places the thermal water horizon (Hettang sandstone) at roughly 1,620 metres and gives the undiluted brine a density of about 1.12 g/cm³ and a temperature at the wellhead of about 60 °C. In the pools and in therapy the brine is diluted to concentrations of 1–6 % at temperatures of 30–36 °C. The operator publishes an analysis of the raw brine listing, among others, chloride at 97,660 mg/l, sodium at 59,747 mg/l, sulphate at 2,097 mg/l, calcium at 2,185 mg/l and bromide at 129 mg/l.

The operator describes the bathing hall area by area: the Erlebnisbecken at 30–32 °C with 1 % brine, the Wellenbecken (wave pool) at 30–32 °C with 1 % brine, the small-children area at 30–33 °C without brine, the Grottengang (grotto passage) at 34–36 °C with 6 % brine, noted as 33 °C in summer, and the whirlpools at 34–36 °C with 1 to 3 % brine. Further features are a waterfall, current channels, a light-and-water organ, an air bubble pool and three staggered brine whirlpools of differing concentration and temperature, plus a year-round heated outdoor brine pool with a rock grotto, waterfall, geyser and massage jets, and a wet-area bar and catering. There are two slides, each about 100 m long according to the operator: a turbo slide with a clear glass cover and electronic time and speed measurement, and a Black Hole slide with light effects, projections and water curtains.

The sauna area is textile-free and has an ice fountain, rest areas, a sauna bar and a communication area with a fireplace. The operator gives two figures for the cabins: seven different saunas, or eight in total, four indoors and four in the sauna garden. Besides the indoor sauna and the sauna garden there is a women's sauna, and an infusion schedule is published. A wellness and therapy department offers massages, baths, a rasul, a hamam, Ayurveda and thalassotherapy treatments, alongside physiotherapy, electrotherapy and brine applications.

The bath opened on 11 November 2000, after two years of construction, in the presence of Angela Merkel; it closed for rebuilding from April to December 2006, when the wave pool was renewed and the therapy area rebuilt. Today the operator gives the site as 9,514 m² holding the bathing landscape, the sauna area with separate outdoor sections, and the wellness and therapy centre; a 47-pitch motorhome park opened alongside in 2017. The bathing landscape, brine bath, sauna landscape and wellness and therapy areas are open daily from 9:00 to 21:00.