Berlin's indoor swimming pools

Map of 12 locations in Berlin, Germany

Berlin swims indoors for most of the year, and the halls that make that possible range from 1898 brick gothic with a glass roof to a 50-metre competition tank built for national meets. What they share is a municipal operator, a schedule that changes with the season, and a renovation backlog deep enough that two of these are better known as building sites than as pools. The useful facts here are pool length, depth, which days open at 06:30 and which do not open until noon, and whether there is a lift into the water.

Places in this collection

  • Schwimmhalle Zingster Straße — A quiet hall in Neu-Hohenschönhausen, open again after work that began in autumn 2023: the swimmer pool was relined in stainless steel, the…
  • Stadtbad Wilmersdorf I — The draw is the sauna rather than the swim: two Finnish dry saunas, a sanarium, a Russian and Roman steam room and a large open-air garden,…
  • Stadtbad Oderberger Straße — Ludwig Hoffmann's 1902 municipal bath, a listed building, reopened for swimming in 2017 with a 20-metre pool whose floor can be raised to t…
  • Stadtbad Lankwitz — Built for leisure more than lap counting: a 25-metre pool sits alongside a 60-metre water slide, a 1-metre board and a 3-metre board into t…
  • Kombibad Spandau Süd — An indoor pool in winter and an outdoor one in summer, with 50-metre lanes, diving boards at several heights, a wading pool and a solarium.…
  • Schwimmhalle Sewanstraße — A small, well-kept single-storey hall in Friedrichsfelde with a 25-metre pool suited to steady endurance sets and a separate non-swimmer po…
  • Stadtbad Charlottenburg – Alte Halle — Berlin's oldest indoor pool, finished in 1898 to Paul Bratring's design, with a 25-metre pool and an integrated wading pool under a steel-a…
  • Stadtbad Neukölln — Opened on 10 May 1914 as one of the largest and most modern baths in Europe, and still two separate halls: a 25-metre pool in the larger, a…
  • Schwimmhalle Ernst-Thälmann-Park — Five lanes over 25 metres for laps, with a separate shallow pool fitted with a water cascade, jet nozzles and underwater lighting. The publ…
  • Stadtbad Mitte "James Simon" — Carlo Jelkmann and Heinrich Tessenow's 1930 bath, a protected Baudenkmal, holds a daylit 50-metre pool that runs from 60 cm to 3 metres dee…
  • Stadtbad Tiergarten — Back in use since late January after a full renovation that ran from 2019 and cost 17.9 million euros, with a 50-metre pool and a diving po…
  • Schwimm- und Sprunghalle im Europasportpark — A 50-metre competition tank with a non-swimmer area and slide, two splash pools and a separate therapy pool, built for training and meets r…

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