Frankfurt's public swimming pools

Map of 11 locations in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Frankfurt runs its baths as one municipal system, which means the practical questions are the same everywhere and the answers are not: whether the water is indoors or under an inflatable hall for the winter, whether the 50-metre lane pool is open before breakfast, whether the sauna is part of the ticket. What follows sorts the city-operated pools by what they physically are, from the summer-only Nidda-valley lidos to the year-round adventure baths, with the operator's own opening hours and direct phone lines attached. One entry is a building site until 2027, and is here because it is where the biggest pool in the city used to be.

Places in this collection

  • Freibad Hausen — Opened in 1904 as a river bath on the Nidda, converted to a basin pool in 1961 and reopened the same year once water heating had been retro…
  • Stadionbad — Opened in 1925 in the Waldstadion grounds for the first Workers' Olympiad, when the single basin measured 22 by 100 metres. Today there is…
  • Brentanobad — Built in 1928 in an old arm of the Nidda after the city bought the park land in 1926, opened in 1930, and still the largest open-air pool i…
  • Textorbad — The 1964 Bezirksbad Sachsenhausen closed in April 2004 and was replaced on the same ground by a public pool built into a senior housing dev…
  • Main Bad Bornheim — Opened on 24 May 2025 to a design by 4a Architekten of Stuttgart, transferred from ABG Frankfurt Holding to the city bath operator, and clo…
  • Freibad Nieder-Eschbach — The northernmost of the city lidos, running 10:00 to 20:00 daily through a May to September season. The basin goes under an inflatable hall…
  • Freibad Eschersheim — One of the Nidda river baths later rebuilt as a basin pool, now a lido on Alexander-Riese-Weg with table tennis and beach volleyball alongs…
  • Freibad Brentano — The Rödelheim lido as it appears in the outdoor-pool listings, on the old Nidda backwater in the Brentanopark. Being a pure summer operatio…
  • Titus Thermen — Built as the Bezirksbad Nordweststadt and now an adventure bath wedged into the Nordwestzentrum shopping centre at Walter-Möller-Platz, wit…
  • Riedbad Bergen-Enkheim — Four separate operations on one site at the eastern edge of the city: an indoor hall, a summer lido, a sauna and a fitness centre, each lis…
  • Hallenbad Höchst — The indoor successor to the 1955 Bezirksbad Höchst, out at the western end of the city in Melchiorstraße and reachable on the S-Bahn to Höc…

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