Friedrichsbad & Caracalla Therme
- Location
- Baden-Baden, Germany
- Water type
- sodium chloride, thermal
- Temperature
- 64 °C
- pH
- 7.1
Water profile
Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
Built between 1869 and 1877 on the Florentinerberg, the very hill where the Romans had already raised their own baths, Baden-Baden's Friedrichsbad is a neo-Renaissance statement designed by architect Karl Dernfeld. The town was searching for a new identity after the North German Confederation's ban on gambling.
Its central hall, crowned by a dome rising 17.5 metres and lined with eight blind arches on Corinthian columns, deliberately echoes the strict axial symmetry of the Baths of Caracalla and Diocletian in Rome. Right next door, the contemporary Caracalla Spa now completes this emblematic pairing in Germany's best-known spa town.