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. It includes an indoor pool with a

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) and a diving platform, and a summer pool. There is a heated paddling pool for children. In the swimming pool there are two monumental ceramic mosaics by Carry Hauser including ''Bather'' (1964), and mosaics in the steam room by Paul Meissner (''Scene of the Ancients bathing'', 1953) and

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playing the flute'', 1953). At the entrance to the pool hall there is a bronze sculpture by Oskar Thiede, designed as a monument to the baths' history.

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