TABBS Wellness- & Sparessort

TABBS in Bad Tabarz calls itself a „Sport- und Gesundheitsbad“ – a sport and health bath – and is run by the municipal body Kur- und Reiseverkehr Bad Tabarz kÄöR at Schwimmbadweg 10. The bath is one part of a larger house that also holds a gym, physiotherapy and occupational therapy rooms, a Kneipp and naturopathy centre and a catering outlet; the operator states that the water area measures „1.400 m² im Sommer und 1.000 m² Wasserfläche im Winter“.

There is an Erlebnisbecken (leisure pool) 1.35 m deep and heated to 30 °C with water spouts, massage jets, floor bubblers, whirl loungers and a large current channel; a four-lane Sportbecken 25 m long at 27 °C; a Kinderbecken/Planschbecken at 32 °C, 20–90 cm deep, with a children's slide, floor bubbles and water play discs; and an Ausschwimmbecken that connects the leisure pool to the open air and is likewise kept at 30 °C in summer and winter. From May to September a 400 m² outdoor pool with its own separate paddling pool and a large lawn is open as a Freibad.

The water is plain heated water: nowhere does the operator claim a thermal spring, a well or mineral water for the swimming pools, and „Bad“ in Bad Tabarz refers to the town's Kneipp tradition rather than to a hot source. Brine appears only as a separate circuit – the sauna yard has a Sole Whirlpool at 34 °C whose water „befindet sich in unserem Solekreislauf“, the steam cabin Tabarzer Solebad releases a brine mist at 45 °C, and course descriptions refer to a Solebecken of warm salt water.

The sauna area has three differently tempered cabins plus two steam baths: Thüringer Rennsteig Sauna at 90 °C for up to 45 guests with hourly infusions, Tabarzer Waldkräuter Sauna at 80 °C for about 15 guests, Benediktiner Sauna at 65 °C for up to 25 people, and the steam rooms Arenaris Bad at 40–45 °C and Tabarzer Solebad at 45 °C. A rest house, a plunge pool with seasonally varying temperature and the brine whirlpool complete the circuit.

Bath and sauna are open Monday to Wednesday and Saturday to Sunday 9:00–21:00 and Thursday to Friday 9:00–22:00; early swimming in the sports pool runs Monday and Wednesday 7:00–9:00 outside Thuringian public holidays, and the Freibad opens from 1 May. More than 120 courses a week run in the water and in the gym.