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Now that's how town looks like during heavy rain
Warmer Damm Park - Warm Pond Park
Restaurant "Zum Schwejk"
Mauritiusplatzbrunnen - Mauritius place fountain
Here I am, looking forward to speeding my recovery from jet-lag in Wiesbaden by visiting the Kaiser-Friedrich Therme for a little steam and sauna. I was disappointed to find out only yesterday that the day I’ll be in town (Tuesday) is the women-only day at KF, and I don’t qualify.
However, I did find on the website a reference to the Thermalbad Aukommtal – with a variety of pools (soaking, swimming, warm, cold), and a large selection of sauna experiences. It looks equally welcoming, if quite new, and the women-only day for Aukammtal is Monday.
Has anyone on the board ever visited the Aukammtal spa? If so, do you have any thoughts or impressions you’d like to share? Also: I know that KF is ‘textilfrei’ (no swimsuits required), but the website doesn’t mention whether Aukammtal is the same in that respect. I have no problem either way with being nude among strangers in an appropriate setting. But, if I don’t have to pack the swimming trunks, I’d rather not -- I likely won't be using them at any other time on the trip.
Thanks in advance for any info.
Fritzrl
It’s a great pool. I can only find some info under http://www.wiesbaden.de/
Than I typed sauna and I found a list with in the middle somewhere
Bade und saunabetrieb im Thermal bad Aukammtal click on it and your there.
Good Luck.
Thanks, Brekkie!
I actually did make that trip in 2005, and solved the problem by taking the waters in Baden-Baden the evening of my arrival, then in Wiesbaden the evening before my departure back to the US.
It's a loop I hope to repeat early next year -- my return to Germany is already in the planning stages
Fritzrl
You will find many small restaurants called "Weinstube" where you can drink a nice Riesling wine. My favorites are the "halbtrocken" (half-dry) as the "trocken" is really dry!
You can also often buy a few bottles of wine direct from these locales, and it is very cheap and good.
When coming down the Kranzplatz street one of the first things you will see on the Kochbrunnenplatz (Chef fountain square) is this Buddha statue.
As flowers lay in the lap of Buddha it might be in religious use.
I ate here for lunch with distinguished VT-er, Nemorino. It was undistinguished, but provided a commanding view of the "big dig" in front of the state theatre and the famous white colonades. I just had the sweet and sour chicken lunch -- it looked and tasted pretty much like any other ...
Traditional spot well located in downtown.
A little bit antique styled, lots of grandmas & grandpas there ... despite the environment could be a little bit better arranged, it is still (after many years) the best for cakes & pastries ... unbeatable. They offer unforgettable cakes. Take a seat, go to the desk, choose your cake, take your colored slip, go back to your table, wait for the waitresse and finally order with your colored slip ... wait and taste !!!!!
Unlike the nearby opera houses in Mainz, Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main, all of which have a distinctly modern look and feel, the State Theater in Wiesbaden looks like something a vain 19th century emperor would want to have built in his favorite spa, so he wouldn't have to do without his accustomed regal ambiance while he was here taking the waters.
Well, that's exactly what it is. Two Vienna architects named Fellner and Helmer designed and built this opera house to the specifications of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, who also paid for the building. (No wonder the people of Wiesbaden had a weakness for emperors.)
The main hall of the State Theater still (or rather again) has the same form and style of decoration as it did when it was built in the 1890s. The stage machinery has of course been modernized repeatedly.
Another concession to modernism is the video monitor, mounted on the first balcony, which enables the singers to see the conductor from all parts of the stage.
Second photo: Looking down from the middle of the third balcony.
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