Solebad Werne

Solebad Werne stands on the site of a bathing tradition that the operator traces back to 3 January 1874 or 1875, when a drilling company looking for coal and minerals struck warm brine.

The centrepiece is the brine pool, given as 560 m² of water surface and divided into three functional zones for lane swimming, bubble loungers and water gymnastics. The operator states a salt content of up to 6 per cent and a water temperature of up to 33 °C, and describes the water as Natursole. The origin has changed over time: the original spring ran dry in May 1905, brine was later pumped up from the Werne colliery and fed to the open-air pool from 1935, and since 2000, when Ruhrkohle AG stopped supplying it, the brine has been delivered to Werne from Lower Saxony by tanker lorry. Massage jets, bubble loungers and cascade showers are fitted in the brine area, and brine gymnastics runs Tuesday to Friday.

The other pools are a 25-metre sports pool with five lanes and a movable floor section, a one-metre springboard and a three-metre diving tower, a small children's pool of 40 m² and a multi-purpose pool of 100 m², an 80-metre slide with timing, and in the open-air section a 50-metre sports pool with eight lanes plus a children's pool with a water play garden. Warmth is provided by a single textile sauna, where guests keep swimwear on, together with a steam bath; infusions run at fixed times from Tuesday to Sunday. Rest areas include a fireplace room, water beds and a conservatory, and there is a Solelounge for food.

Opening hours are 6 to 20 on Tuesday and Wednesday, 6 to 21 on Thursday and Friday, 7 to 21 on Saturday and 7 to 20 on Sunday and public holidays. Monday is closed in the winter season and open 14 to 20 in the summer season, or 10 to 20 during North Rhine-Westphalia school holidays. The open-air pool runs from mid-May to the end of September; the indoor bath is open all year.