Five pools for the mountain view

Name: Fuchs baut Gärten GmbH
Address: Schlegldorf 91a, Lenggries, Bayern, 83661, DE
Telephone: +49 8042 91454-0
Price range: €€€

A 15-metre main pool, three lodge pools and a Gumpe beneath a skylight – five chlorine-free water features for a hotel above Bad Tölz.

Location	Bad Tölz, Wackersberger Höhe
Size	5 pools – main pool 15 × 5 m, three lodge pools each 2 × 3 m, one Gumpe
Design	Hans Rampf (water technology, Fuchs baut Gärten)
Implementation	Fuchs baut Gärten GmbH – Gärtner von Eden
Photography	Victor Liska for Biotop
Award	3rd place Biotop Design Award 2024 – Living Pool category

Above Bad Tölz, on the Wackersberger Höhe, stands the Hotel BERGEBLICK – and its grounds hold five water features by us, each with its own role. The main pool, 15 × 5 metres, with a roll-up cover and Grander water, is the stage in front of the hotel. By the lodges there are three small Living Pools, each 2 × 3 metres – private water right outside each lodge's own terrace, with a clever technical solution: a shared pump circuit that saves on plant room space and maintenance.

And then there is the Gumpe: a round plunge pool in the sauna area, set into raw exposed concrete, with a skylight above it bringing daylight onto the water. After the sauna, you step in as if into a mountain stream – small volume, heavy use, low temperature, and still chlorine-free. This is exactly what Biotop filter technology is made for.

The heat doesn't come from a separate system, but via a heat exchanger from the hotel's own wood-chip heating – up to around 25 degrees. And in the interest of honesty: the building and outdoor grounds of this hotel are not our work – our part is the water, from planning through to the construction of all five pools.

The project won 3rd place in the Living Pool category at the Biotop Design Award 2024. Victor Liska's photographs were taken in summer 2024 for Biotop. All our hotel projects: Hotels & Hospitality.

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