Westfalen Therme

The Westfalen Therme stands at Schwimmbadstraße 14 in Bad Lippspringe, in eastern Westphalia. The operator makes no statement at all about where the water comes from: it calls one basin a Thermalbecken and the house a Therme, but gives no spring name, no borehole depth and no water analysis.

The water world is built around two water slides of 75 m and 125 m fitted with timing equipment, a current channel, a waterfall, water cannon and fountains, a whirlpool grotto, and diving boards at 1 and 3 metres. There is a Piratenland with an adventure ship and a Giant Splasher, and a separate toddler area with water games. The operator lists the pools individually: a thermal basin at 32 °C, whirlpools at 35 °C, massage loungers and a 25 m sports pool.

The sauna world covers 6,000 square metres over three floors and is likewise listed item by item: infusion saunas at 75, 85 and 95 °C, a eucalyptus sauna at about 60 °C, a herb sauna at about 55 °C, a bio sauna at about 60 °C, and a steam bath, with up to 20 infusions offered. The WALDgarten annexe adds a panoramic tree-house sauna 12 metres up, a 100 square metre event sauna, a 40 square metre Järve earth sauna in the Waldhaus, a natural pond, a 34 °C infinity pool and a 200 square metre roof terrace; the Asia Lounge has a rooftop pool at 34 °C. The Salinarium is a textile-only brine and salt area for visitors aged 16 and over, with a floating basin at 12 per cent brine, an indoor graduation house running at 3 to 6 per cent, and a salt-gallery sauna misted at 6 per cent brine with air at about 60 °C.

Opening hours are 9:00 to 22:00 Sunday to Thursday and 9:00 to 23:00 Friday and Saturday, for the water world, the sauna world and the Salinarium alike; the 25 m sports pool keeps its own narrower schedule and early-swimmer slots. The bath was built in the mid-1980s to designs by Heribert Stork, on a site of about 18,000 square metres. No exact opening year is published.