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Lübbenau/Spreewald is the heart of the Spreewald biosphere reserve — a UNESCO-listed landscape of over 200 waterway channels in the Lusatian lowlands, 100 kilometres southeast of Berlin. The area has developed sauna tourism around its waterway base: sauna cabins accessible by punt (Kahn), floating sauna platforms on the channels, and resort spa facilities at Spreewelten Lübbenau. The outdoor, canal-embedded setting gives Spreewald saunas a character unlike any other German venue. German textile-free norms apply in sauna areas.
Sauna operators combine Finnish sauna with canal-side cold plunges in the Spreewald's Biosphere Reserve waterways. The novelty of paddling to a wood-fired sauna through willow-lined channels is the defining experience.
Yes — several operators offer sauna access via traditional punt (Kahn). It is one of the few places in Central Europe where you genuinely travel by boat to your sauna.
Most outdoor canal-side saunas operate April–October. Hotel saunas in Lübbenau and Burg im Spreewald operate year-round.
