Bad Salzuflen Travel Guide

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There are many different springs in Bad Salzuflen:

Mineral springs: There are three of them, the Sohienbrunnen in the spa gardens, the Inselbrunnen on the island in the spa gardens lake and the Loosebrunnen. They are served in the pump room for healing reasons.

Brine springs: Again there are three, which are used for the inhalation at the saltworks. The oldest spring is the Paulinequelle from 1802. Besides there are the Neubrunnen and Sophienquelle.

Thermal springs: The water of these springs is used for bath, and there are - again - three of them. The most famous one in the Leopolds-Thermalssprudel in the spa gardens with 21,7 °C. Then, there’s “Therme III” (21,4 °C) which is found in front of the “Kurgastzentrum” near the spa works and where you can see the bubbles coming up. The deepest and most salty spring is the Gustav-Horstmann-Sprudel. It has 37,5 °C

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This building was build 1960 and I found it pretty ugly from outside. The inside was better, it’s bright and nicely decorated with lots of flowers. In the middle is the place where you can get the drinking water of the three mineral springs of the town, and some signs tell you which water is good against which diseases. Besides, there are some shops in that building, some small aquariums and information on the geology of the springs.

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The spa gardens is found next to the salines and it’s nice to stroll around there and watch the flowers. There also is a Kneipp basin and a little lake. And then there’s the towns landmark, a temple with the Leopold spring. A sign at the temple informs you that it was drilled from 1904-1906 and that it’s the oldest thermal spring of the town. Unfortunately you couldn’t go inside the temple.
Adjacent to the spa gardens is a landsacpe garden which is much larger with a bigger lake and where you can do some extended walks.

There’s an admission to the spa gardens (3€ adults), unless you have a guest card. There’s also a combined ticket for the Erlebnis-Gradierwerk plus spa gardens which is 5€ (adults).
The landscape garden is free.

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There are three salt works in Bad Salzuflen. Until 1945, the salt works were used to extract salt, today it’s just a place where you can inhale the salted air.
While walking along this wall of twigs where the salt water is trickling down, I partly felt like being at the sea, as you could smell the salted air. Also interesting was the “Erlebnis-Gradierwerk” (event salt works), where you walk in the salt works and even climb up on the platform. But the highlight is the room in that salt works, where you can sit and inhale the salted air. It’s very foggy there, I you can’t see much, but there’s some relaxing music and at the ceiling are lights like stars.

Admission to the Erlebnis-Gradierwerk is 3€ for adults (1,50€ for children and people with guest card).
There’s also a combined ticket for the Erlebnis-Gradierwerk plus spa gardens which is 5€ (adults).