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Baden-Baden, Germany Report. September 2002. Having been to Germany these past four days has been a pleasant experience. I spent the past weekend in Baden-Baden. Famous for its hot springs that go back to Roman Times. I stayed at the Hotel Karlsbad Hof directly across the alley from the Friedrichs Bad, the famous hot spring spa of Baden-Baden. Friedrichs Bad is a nude only facility with a minimum time expenditure of at least 3 - 3 1/2 hours. There are 16 stations to luxuriate in and to partake of the different therapies. Starting with a shower,then a 10 minute hot area lounge to acclimate to the temperature. Afterwards a 5 minute hotter lounge area. The 4th station is the Shvitz of hot steam for ten minutes, then a massage scrub for 7 minutes, back to the shvitz for 10 minutes, and then on to a series of warm water pools. All pools are mixed genders, on the mixed gender days. (all days except Tuesday and Monday Night). There are three different therapy pools with intricate ceilings designed in the later part of the 19th Century. Towering domes and beautiful sculptures. After the pools, of 10 - 15 duration for each pool, back to the showers, cold dip pools, and 1/2 hour of resting and sleep before ending with Creme Rubs on the skin. This magnificent 3 1/2 hour excursion costs 24.70 Euros (about the same in $). There are solar beds to retain your all over tan. Other therapies, aromatherapies, wraps, massages, etc. are extra. There is another bath/spa next door called Caracalla. There is a mandatory swim suit area on the main level. However, like all sauna areas in Germany, the Sauna Level is mandatory nude. This level includes solar beds, sun lamps, saunas, steam rooms, cold dip pools and hot tubs. It is almost funny to see everyone disrobe their swim suits and spend an hour or two upstairs nude and then put on their bathing suits for the walk downstairs to the warm pools both inside and outside. Caracalla is very inexpensive and there are other therapies available. Price with discount from the hotel - Euros 9.70 ($9.70). If you get a chance to get to Germany - go to Baden-Baden and enjoy, relax, and luxuriate. Thanks CO Guy for the report. |
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Berlin and Potsdam Report. August 2007. The Germans, especially the East Germans, have a very different attitude about nudity. We were in Berlin for two days. The weather was mediocre, but the sun did occasionally come out. A few people were sunbathing in Tiergarten, the great park in the center of the city. Some were nude, some were not. It didn't make any difference - there were no signs delineating nude and textile places. The Europa Thermen, in the Europa Center on Nurnberger Strasse, a block away from the main drag Kufurstendam, is a wonderful sauna/pool place, obligately nude. The swimming pool is mostly indoors, but has an outside channel. Several of the saunas are outside on the roof. The roof is that of a low building surrounded by some high rise office buildings. People lounge naked in the sauna garden, in full view of the surrounding office buildings. We stayed in a hotel near the Tiergarten, the Sofitel Schweizerhof. It had a huge pool which no one used nude, and a sauna area with a mixed area and a women-only area which, like all saunas in German, were nude. When we were there the only showers were in the woman-only area (Damensauna). So they put up a sign, in English and German, 'Dear Guests, the showers are for men and women'. Potsdam was the capitol of Prussia before Berlin, and after the Kings of Prussia moved to Berlin, they kept building summer homes in Potsdam. One palace is the CecilienHof, on a beautiful lake the HeiligenSee (Holy Lake). Just beyond the Cecilienhof (and an expensive hotel) on the north end of the lake, there is a series of three sunbathing lawns each of which has an easy wading entry into the lake. The two westward lawns are clothing optional, and the great majority of people were nude. Those people who wanted to wear bathing suits took their clothes off in public and put on their bathing suits, even on the textile beach. We were there between 4:00 and 6:00 PM on a Wednesday. The water was cool but not cold, clean and not algaed, with lots of fish and birds. At about 5:00 PM families started to show up, mothers, fathers, and children, most of whom took off all of their clothes. There were as many people in the clothing optional areas as there were in the textile areas. There is a little stand where you can buy drinks and soft ice cream just past the textile beach. You can reach the lake by Tram 692, the Cecilienhof stop. We walked down the east side of the lake, mostly occupied by huge villas. There was a tiny public beach about halfway down the lake. This too was clothing optional. Heiligensee is an idyllic place. It is certainly worth a trip should fate find you in Berlin. Thanks Mickey for the report. If you wish to contact Mickey, click HERE. Make sure you mention the report you are referring to in the body of the email and that you want the email forwarded to Mickey. |
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Berlin. October 2004. In Berlin, the Berlin Luft Und Bad Paradise (BLUB!), http://www.blub-berlin.de/, has a spectacular sauna area. To get there, take the underground (U Bahn) to Grenzallee. Get out of the U Bahn using the Buschkrugallee exit. Turn left on Buschkrugallee, walk about 3 blocks, and you will se the BLUB hotel on your right. Go between the two halves of the hotel, and follow the path to BLUB itself. BLUB has a large textile-only indoor-outdoor swimming pool, and a special sauna area, labeled, from the entrance 'FKK Bereich' , nude zone. You get a computerized chip wrist band, which you can use in any open locker. The changing room is unisex, although the showers are sex-segregated. The inside part of the sauna area is designed in an Arab-Andalusian mode, with colored tiles. Inside there is a steam bath, five saunas of different temperatures, two whirlpool baths, and a small swimming pool and a cold plunge pool. There is also a bank of showers with various multidirectional sprays. The indoor area also has a large relaxation space in a glassed-in greenhouse, with lots of palm trees and chaise lounges. Outside there are 2 more saunas (90 degrees C and 100 degrees C) and a lovely garden with lots of chaise lounges. Each of the outside saunas has an hourly aufguss: people crowd into the sauna, and the attendant comes in with a bucket of scented water and ladles water onto the hot coals. He then whips the steam around the sauna using a big towel. When a gust of steam arrives in a 100 C sauna you really feel it! There is a small restaurant inside the sauna area. If you are ever stuck in Berlin for a day, this is a very pleasant and relaxing space. Thanks Mickey for the report. If you wish to contact Mickey, click HERE. Make sure you mention the report you are referring to in the body of the email and that you want the email forwarded to Mickey. |
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German Spa Experience Report. September 2002. Having just returned from a week in Germany on business, I wanted to share a glimpse of the German Nakt Kulture. We enjoyed the sights, shopped, had some good German meals, and generally had a good time. However, my favorite experience was the opportunity to bake, soak, steam, swim and sunbathe at the "SchwimmHalle" or "Hallenbad". I definitely recommend it if you a ever get a chance to travel to Germany. Pause to relax your mind as you imagine taking a trip to a typical German swimming pool/sauna complex.... (click preceding link to read the rest of the report.) |
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German Swim-Spa Places. June 2002. Most German towns of reasonable sizes have large indoor-outdoor swimming pools with wonderful sauna areas. The swimming pools are mostly textile, but the sauna areas are not. They are usually called 'Sauna Paradies' or 'Sauna Landschaft (the sauna landscape!), and they are entirely nude (FKK, for Frei Korper Kulture, free body culture), not clothing optional (towels are OK). My favorites: 1. Vier Jahrezeiten in Weil-am-Rhein, the sauna section of Laguna Badeland (http://www.laguna-badeland.de/sauna.html). To get to it you get off the autobahn at Weil-am-Rhein, and follow the signs (it is very well marked). You can also get there by bus, it is about a 10 minute walk from the Marktplatz stop. Weil-am-Rhein is in Germany, but it is actually a suburb of Basel, Switzerland. A Basel bus ticket can get you to Weil-am-Rhein. The Sauna area has lots of saunas, a whirlpool, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, and a restaurant. On Sunday nights the entire Laguna Badeland is open to the Sauna users. They have a water slide that is really exciting to do nude. 2. Therme Erding (http://www.therme-erding.de), in the Munich suburb of Erding, not too far from the Munich Airport. This has a large textile thermal swimming pool, and a slightly smaller FKK area, with a thermal swimming pool, lots of saunas, a Roman Bath area, and a restaurant. 3. Taunus Therme (note from Jan: completely textile now - report from a member who visited in July 2006). Thanks Mickey for the report. If you wish to contact Mickey, click HERE. Make sure you mention the report you are referring to in the body of the email and that you want the email forwarded to Mickey. |
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Trip Report - Germany - Lake Chiemsee. August 2003. Lake Chiemsee is halfway between Munich, Germany and Salzburg, Austria on highway A8. FKK Chiemsee and Camping Roedlgries (camping area for textiles) at the Bavarian sea of Lake Chiemsee. Belonging to municipality of Ubersee/Feldwies 7 hectres large, with 700 m long sand beach. FKK Chiemsee (nude only) has beachvolleyball, table tennis. Sanitary plumbings with showers (warm water), chilled water showers in the sport and couch range, kiosk with cosy beer garden with food (didn't eat there). Free entrance for children until 14 years. Discounts for pupil/student. More of a park picnic style setting with, I believe, daytime hours only, didn't see evidence of barbequeing equipment. Great place to relax and play sports if wanted. Most people (families, singles men and women) just relaxed with good books and enjoyed the nice Bavarian weather. Start: Autobahn A8 Munich heading toward Salzburg, exit Ubersee/Feldwies. Exit left back over highway. Stay on the main road for about a mile. You will see a sign for Camping and FKK Roedlgries turn left, down paved road then left again on gravel road (frontage road to A8). Can't miss the FKK signs. Parking on-site and cost for one person was 5 Euros. Take your German-English translation book. I had no problems getting by with the language. Overall nice folks. FKK Chiemsee Seerosenweg 4 83236 Ubersee ph 0 8642 598859 http://nacktbaden.de/. http://world.altavista.com/ has good English-German translator. http://www.fkk-reisefuehrer.de/Webseiten-Deuschland/Webseiten-Bayern/Bayern11.htm. http://www.healthandefficiency.co.uk/backs/m200201/travel.htm. Thanks DJ for the report! |
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Munich Airport Area Report. March 2007. For all North American naturist friends passing thru Munich Airport for business or fun. A great pampering offer is the Therme Erding (10Km from the airport) sauna paradise (30 US for 5 hrs). No words are able to express how nice it is. Over 20 Sauna's, Hammam's and more than a couple of enormous Swimming Pools are there for your enjoyment. This report is brought to you by Vincenzo. |
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Munich Report. Summer 2001. Only this year have I become active as a nudist. I have thought about it for years and practiced it at home from time to time but this year was my first experience in a social nudist club. I finally got motivated earlier in the summer and made a visit to a singles friendly rustic nudist resort in Indiana near my home in Kentucky. It was a wonderful experience. Since the family is not very interested I went by myself. I was comfortable from the beginning and I was hooked. It is a bit of an oxymoron that you could take off your clothes and feel very comfortable with a group of strangers but I was. I have visited there a few other times but this report is about a trip to Munich Germany after my first experience at that club... (click preceding link to read the rest of the report.) |
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Niederweimar Seepark Report. September 2006. Niederweimar Seepark. This is a swimming lake, with a swimming park which has a sandy beach, a grassy lawn, and a large FKK (nudist) area which you can see from the entrance. Take the B3 from Giessen towards Marburg. Make a left turn at the light, following the sign towards Niederweimar. About 500 meters later you will see a right turn sign 'Seepark' The road winds past the railway station (I suspect you could get there by train) and a few hundred meters later you see a parking meadow on the right. You pay 3Euros to enter. Right near the entrance there is a waterboard tow if you want to practice the watery equivalent of snowboarding. The device is like a Tbar on a beginning ski slope, with a cable stretching across the lake which tows the participants across the lake and back. This is clothed. You walk past the clothed beach and the volleyball part to the FKK Bereich, in which bathing suits are forbidden. You put your towel down on a grassy lawn. There is a dock from which you can dive or step into the icy cold lake water, and a raft about 100 meters from the dock to which you can swim... (click preceding link to read the rest of the report.) |
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The Oase Wellness Center in Bremen. October 2005. The Oase Wellness Center is a superb sauna/swimming establishment in a shopping mall, the Weserpark, on the outskirts of Bremen, http://www.weserpark-oase.de . The Oase is near the intersection of the A27 and A1 autobahns: If you are on the A1, take the A27 north and get off at the first exit (Seebaldsbrücke). Follow the signs to Weserpark, and you will see on your right a tower saying OASE. Like any mall there is a lot of free parking. When you enter you pick up two wristbands, one with an electronic chip and the other with a key to a small valuables locker at the door. You put your valuables in the small locker (a passport, airplane ticket, car key and money in my case) and descend to the (sex segregated) changing rooms. You find an open locker, which you can then lock with your chip. The establishment has a sauna garden outside with 5 or so huge saunas of various temperatures, three saunas and two steam baths inside, a warm swimming pool inside and a large, cooler swimming pool outside, large enough to swim laps, which you can enter from either inside or outside. Unlike many other establishments in Germany, there is no textile area. The entire establishment is a ‘textilfreibereich’ - fabric free area. The place offers lots of different massages, including a hamam massage in a steambath, and activities they call ‘ceremonies’ including the opportunity to be beaten with birch leaves in the Russian Banja (an outdoor sauna at 85 degrees C). There is a fee associated with these ceremonies, but there are also lots of free ‘aufgusses’ in which a staff person pours water with aromatic oils onto the rocks of the sauna, and then uses a towel to whip the aromatic steam around the room. The saunas become crowded for the aufgusses. There is also a reasonable restaurant, with seats outside and inside. You pay with your chip. When you leave, you give the cashier the chip and she tells you how much money you owe. Note, they do not accept credit cards. I spent a pleasant afternoon there, and if I did not have to go to a meeting I would have spent a lot longer there. Thanks Mickey for the report. If you wish to contact Mickey, click HERE. Make sure you mention the report you are referring to in the body of the email and that you want the email forwarded to Mickey. |
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An Oasis in Stuttgart Report. April 2004. At work the other day, a colleague referred to it as "the Disneyland of spas." Some of you who travel frequently to Stuttgart, Germany (employees of Bosch, IBM, Compaq, Porche, BMW, Daimler-Benz, etc. etc.) may have even heard of it. It's at the Millenium Hotel (formerly the SI Centrum) and it is by far the premium spa experience I have seen in Germany. And baby, that's really saying something. I've done Baden-Baden and Saunaland at the Olympic pool in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and they are both great, but this is something special. First off, I'm not a naturist, at least not yet. I may make it down to the nude beaches around Tubingen this summer. My impetus for writing this report, however, takes me to NetNude. You see, I really need to find a place like this in the States. Because eventually, I will have to return from Nakedland (aka Germany, where I live) to the bizarrely puritanical Land of the Free (but clothed.)... (click preceding link to read the rest of the report.) |
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Willkommen bei nacktbaden.de! - Welcome at nacktbaden.de! Naturism is practical. There is no swimsuit which pinches or tweaks, there are no embarrassing deathly pale spots on the backside. Naturism is also healthy, because one can rapidly catch a cold in wet bathing suits. Even Biblically there is nothing indecent about nudity: "They were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed." On these pages all friends of naturism will find a lot of information about beaches, indoor baths, camping-grounds, and saunas for naturists in Germany, Europe and other parts of the world. This site is in German and English. Visit the site for additional information. |
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Spas in Germany Report. 1999. In Baden-Baden the 2 famous spas are Friedrichsbad (Roman-Irish Baths) and Caracalla-Terme. Prices at the former are 1996--DM 38 or roughly $30 gets you 3 hrs. DM 28 is w/out the massage. The routine is written on the walls in different languages: take shower, grab towel, put on plastic slippers, hit the warm-air bath for 15 mins, hot-air bath for 5 mins, shower, soap-brush massage--rough and slippery--don't know how long--it appears to be only about 10 mins, shower, lounge under sunbeams and caryatids in on of several different thermal steam baths, swim in big pool under dome--the one mixed area, cold plunge, dry in warmed towels for 30 mins in mellow yellow silent room.... (click preceding link to read the rest of the report.) Also: There is a place in Badenweiller, which is south of Friebourg between it and the Swiss border. I have brochures on it--Cassiopeia Therme--but they are in German. It looks like another Roman-Irish bath type place. The brochure talks about the mineral composition of the water and the temperature (Celsius) of the various pools.... (click preceding link to read the rest of the report.) Trip report by Bill. |
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Thermalbad Aukammtal - Wiesbaden, Germany. September 2007. Thermalbad Aukammtal is a swim recreation area and spa in Wiesbaden, Germany. The swim and spa sections are separate areas, with bathing suits required in the swim section, and textile-free or nude preferred (German employee terminology--not mine) in the spa section. I made two separate visits to the spa. The spa section has 3 saunas, a steam room, and a hot tub in the downstairs indoor area; above the indoor saunas is an indoor lounging area and food & beverage area. There are 3 more saunas, a warm pool, sunning deck, lawn area, and 2 temperature-controlled solariums in the outdoor area. There a cold tubs in both the indoor and outdoor sauna areas (Germans seem to enjoy cycles of thermal shock). In both sauna areas, there is 1 sauna used for hourly infusions, where an attendant pours aromatic liquid on the hot sauna rocks, creating nearly instantaneous, sinus-opening, scented steam. The last infusion I sat through was so intensely hot and humid, I almost had to slither out of the sauna (tip for those who've never experienced this: don't sit on the upper benches, even if they're way in the back--though the steam is invisible, it rises to the ceiling immediately, and rolls along the ceiling to the back of the room without delay, making the top benches the hottest area in the sauna). A schedule is posted with the time and aroma for each hour: menthol, eucalyptus, lemon grass, orange, and chamomile are some of the scented offerings. When you enter the facility, you're given a wristband with a small, round sensor chip on it...looks like a small wristwatch. This sensor is used to get through the entry and exit turnstiles, open and close your locker, activate the tanning beds, and purchase food and beverages. So you only need to bring a towel with you for your entire time in the spa area... footwear, robes, and other items are optional. I brought my backpack in with snacks, water, sunscreen, and magazines, because I spent lots of time sunning on the lawn. We you leave the spa, they scan your wristband and you receive a single bill for the day use fee (15 Euros) plus anything else you purchased. Sorry--no inside photos on this trip...I don't think the other visitors would have appreciated it. I found it a little strange that several men and women were giving me second looks throughout the day. I was beginning to wonder if I should go look in the mirror for something weird on my face or backside, or if somehow they all knew I was American, even though there were no clothing fashion clues to my nationality. Later in the day I finally realized I was one of the truly rare among the German male populace....having been circumcised. Satellite photo during construction. The area bordered in red is the spa section; to the left is the swim section:
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Therme Erding, Munich, Germany. October 2007.Just outside of Munich, about 20 minutes from the airport, is the world’s largest sauna establishment, Therme Erding. To get there from Munich, take the S2 to Erding. During the week there are two buses which go to the Therme. On weekends you have to walk 0.8 km. Or, if you are driving, follow the signs to Erding (off any of the Autobahns near the airport) and the road to the Therme Erding is well marked. There is lots of parking. You enter into a large entryway, with a store and and entrances for 3 different places: the textile thermal pool ("Badeparadis"), a water park with huge water slide (Cyclone), and the Sauna Paradis. The last time I visited the Therme Erding it was pretty wonderful. Now it is astounding. The changing area for the sauna formerly was the changing area for the entire establishment. Now it is limited to the sauna. In the changing area half of the lockers are between modesty cubby holes. The idea was that you went into a cubby hole with your bathing suit in your hands, and came out with your bathing suit on. The rest of the lockers don’t bother with that particular nicety. You go through the men's and women's room into the junction between the textile zone and the old sauna area - half a dozen saunas, some lounges, a Kneip parcourse and a small pool which leads into a much larger outdoor pool. To the left is the entrance to the new sauna area. To the right is the old Roman area - a tepidarium, a caldarium, a steam bath, and a large but shallow pool into which music is piped - you only hear it if your ears are underwater. There is also a Jacuzzi here. The new sauna area begins with an Italian restaurant, in front of which is a large exercise pool at 26ºC. Tables for the restaurant line one side of the pool. Beyond the restaurant is a huge open area with an immense pool (see the picture) of water at 34 ºC. There is a swim-up bar, lots of different bubble bed and Jacuzzis, and a gateway to an equivalently huge outdoor pool, with more jacuzzi and bubble areas, and a circular 'river' with a current against which you can swim, or with which you can float. The area around the pool has 600 lounges, or so one sign said.
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Bad Homburg, Germany, Taunus Therme. September 2006. Website: Taunus Therme . Someone recently told NetNude that there is no more nudity at the Taunus Therme. That was not true last Sunday, September 10, 2006. The Taunus Therme is a large establishment with an indoor/outdoor textile pool and a separate large nude sauna/pool area. It is quite close to Frankfurt airport. Take the 5 Autobahn towards Kassel, and at the Homburger Cross take the A661 towards Bad Homburg. Get off at the Bad Homburg exit, and follow the signs towards the center of town. You will see signs for the Taunus Therme, follow them and park in the large parking building that lies between the Taunus Therme and the Seedam Bad, a textile swimming pool. When you enter, you get a chip-coin upon which all expenses are registered. There are two changing areas, the textile one and the upstairs Sauna one, sternly labeled FKK Bereich (nudist zone); no bathing suits here. You put your chip into the locker, and pull out a wriststrip in which the chip is mounted. This enables you to lock the locker after you have taken off your clothes. The sauna area is quite large. From the locker room you go into a large room which has saunas set at different temperatures, a steam bath, and an entry into a very cold (18C) swimming pool which continues outside. Outside there are more saunas, a warm pool with salty thermal water (32C) and a large outdoor relaxation area with a bar. If you want to eat you have to put a bathing suit on and go to the textile area. Every 15 minutes or so there is an aufguss. A sauna employee comes into the sauna, opens the door, and gets out all the old hot air. He then closes the door, pours aromatic water on the rocks, and uses the towel to wave the moist air around. The sauna is inevitably full for this. There is nothing like hot moist aromatic 100C air. At one augfuss he passed out squeeze bottles of honey, which the enthusiastic poured over themselves. I tried it. I felt warm and sticky. I don't know what honey does for the skin. I washed it off in the shower immediately after. Thanks Mickey for the report. If you wish to contact Mickey, click HERE. Make sure you mention the report you are referring to in the body of the email and that you want the email forwarded to Mickey. |
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