Charlottensee and Waldkurpark LGS Bad Iburg 2018

The Kneipp spa town of Bad Iburg is formulating a new future for the spa park: the generous urban gesture of the Bad Iburg 2018 State Garden Show will link historical and public places and free the spa clinic from its isolation. The redesigned spa park opens up attractive places to stay with a view of the water and a high atmospheric density.

The staging of new pathways and visual axes represent connections and points of contact between the castle, the spa clinic, the Waldkurpark and the newly created Kneipp theme gardens. In doing so, both an expansion of the possible uses and the integration of the clinic into the urban development succeed. The barrier-free design aims at integrating people with limited mobility into the public life of the city society. Thus, the landscape-aesthetic emphasis on the particularity of the place and the experience of the spatial qualities revives an old typology with an eye for different user groups.

The Kneipp health resort Bad Iburg benefits from its beautiful location on the edge of the Teutoburg Forest, whose wooded hills surround the town to the west and form the backdrop for the medieval Castle Iburg. Further local qualities are the old town, the Kneipp adventure park, the Charlottensee lake and the Waldkurpark with chain of lakes. Compared to the surrounding communities, Bad Iburg has nevertheless suffered losses in terms of tourism figures in recent years. Supported by civic commitment, the town and the state of Lower Saxony have therefore decided to use the State Garden Show as an instrument to set long-term development impulses.