Hamburg's public swimming pools

Map of 19 locations in Hamburg, Germany

Almost every public pool in Hamburg is run by one city-owned company, so the pricing and the opening logic are broadly shared while the buildings are not: the roster runs from an 1895 Stadtbad under heritage protection to a 2013 hall with a forty-metre glass wall that slides open in summer. What actually separates them is the water, which is what this list records: how warm each pool is held, whether there are 25 metres to swim lengths in or a slide and a pirate ship instead, whether the outdoor basin is heated through the winter, and which halls are shut for multi-year renovations or handed over to school swimming.

Places in this collection

  • Festland — Opened in 2009 in Altona-Altstadt to replace the Bismarckbad, which had closed, and now the most central open-air swimming in the city, wit…
  • Inselpark — The Wilhelmsburg bath opened in 2013 as part of the IBA and igs building and garden shows, which is why it stands inside a new park rather…
  • Naturbad Kiwittsmoor — A natural bathing pool in Langenhorn, listed under Naturbäder rather than among the chlorinated halls, and open for a summer season only: i…
  • Midsommerland — The Harburg leisure bath, combining an indoor hall, an outdoor pool and a sauna on one site at Gotthelfweg, with listed hours running from…
  • Schwimmbad Elbgaustraße — A plain neighbourhood hall in the west of the city, listed among the municipal Hallenbäder with no attraction programme attached to its ent…
  • Bondenwald — An outdoor pool of 1965 with an indoor hall added in 1977, converted in 2015/16 into a leisure bath with the sauna and children's sections…
  • Familienbad Ohlsdorf — The outdoor pool here was demolished and replaced by a new indoor hall completed in 2019, so this is one of the youngest buildings in the m…
  • Familienbad Rahlstedt — Opened in 1972 and extended in 2021 with a heated outdoor basin built in place of the old Wiesenredder outdoor pool, which closed when the…
  • Schwimmbad Billstedt — A combined bath in the Schleemer Bach green corridor, where an outdoor pool of 1928 was joined by an indoor hall in 1972 and a rebuild has…
  • Schwimmbad Süderelbe — Opened in 1975 at Neugrabener Markt and positioned for family, leisure and fitness swimming rather than attractions. The operator runs a se…
  • Schwimmbad Finkenwerder — The indoor pool on the Elbe island, on Finksweg, paired on the operator's roster with a separate Sommerfreibad that opens only for the seas…
  • Schwimmhalle Inselpark — The south wall of this hall is a forty-metre sliding glass facade that is opened through the summer, so the multi-purpose pool at 28 degree…
  • Kaifu-Bad — The oldest pool in the city, opened in 1895 as the Stadtbad Hohe Weide and the oldest surviving Hamburg city bath still in use, under herit…
  • Schwimmbad Blankenese — Opened in 1977 and named for Blankenese, though the entrance is on Simrockstraße in Iserbrook, a detail worth checking before setting off f…
  • Billebad — Bathing on this Bergedorf site goes back to a river bathing station of 1926/27, with an indoor pool following in 1965 and the present build…
  • Parkbad Volksdorf — Opened in 1971 and rebuilt in 1991 around Taka-Tuka-Land, a climbing-net, palm and sandbank play area with a pirate ship, turtles and an oc…
  • Holthusenbad — Opened in 1914 in Eppendorf and still trading on the fabric of that building, with a sauna and massage wing alongside the pools and daily h…
  • Bartholomäus-Therme — Built in 1909 as the Stadtbad Barmbek-Uhlenhorst, sharing its premises with a lending library and a registry office, rebuilt and modernised…
  • Schwimmbad St. Pauli — A 1980 hall on Budapester Straße, listed since 2022 as given over mainly to school swimming, which is why the public timetable is so thin.…

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