Sonnentau Spa - Oasis of Relaxation
The Sonnentau spa offers various options to unwind your mind. Whether you refill your tanks at the lawn for sunbathing, in the indoor swimming pool or making yourself comfortable in on of our saunas, body mind and soul will thank you for that treatment.
Besides the Finnish sauna and steam bath you will find a salt mine, a tecladarium with radiant heat as well as a 'Kneipp' footbath. At every turn there is antoher highlight awaiting for you ...
Balance point: our pampering, wellness and massage area
Here you will find pampering for body & soul ... Let yourself be gently pampered with relaxing music, the scent of essential oils and skillful hands!
Our Balance Point is divided into I and II due to its location. In Balance Point I you will find our cosmetics department as well as a reading and relaxation room. Balance Point II has a spacious lounge/reception room and treatment rooms for massages, rhassoul baths, etc.
Find out more about the Balance Pointhere .
Day pampering experiences | Day Spa
A day in a bathrobe: a complete wellness floor awaits you at Sonnentau to snuggle up and feel good. In addition to 3-hour or day tickets, we recommend
- Romantic day - time for two
- Day Spa - A day for me
- Well-being "DELUXE"
- Wellness time-out for two
These day pampering experiences include entry to the wellness area, a relaxing partial body massage, candlelit dinner, classic cosmetics, wellness salad and much more. Find the right pampering program for you or give a gift voucher to your loved ones.
Swimming pool and relaxation rooms
Swimming pool
The swimming pool in the Sonnentau is a source of fitness. Clear water with a cervical surge, counter-current system and bottom spring is in season at any time of year.
Salus per Aqua - health through water: if water was only for washing, you could safely leave the wellness area. But that's not the case, not at all! Our facility shows what water is actually good for when it is staged, combining all the sophistication of the Romans, Greeks and Rhöners. All this embedded in Rhön basalt stone. A subtle seduction with water, warmth, fragrances and visual stimuli takes place here. Everywhere it whispers: "Come!"
Whirlpool
Our whirlpool is embedded in basalt, the Rhön's primary rock. The whirlpool develops its maximum effect at 32 to 35 degrees.
The paintings on the walls of the wellness area are based on the principles of humanist philosophy. More information on the murals in the PDF document
Relaxation rooms and outdoor area with sunbathing lawn
Our relaxation rooms offer a wonderful panoramic view of the Streutal valley around Fladungen. The sunbathing lawn with terrace surrounded by greenery invites you to linger and dream. Enjoy sunny views!
Massage and relaxation
Reading room with a view
Visit our newly designed reading and relaxation room in Balance-Punkt I with a wonderful view of Fladungen. The room invites you to linger and feel good with a wide range of books for your physical and mental health. An ideal place for book lovers.
General novels can be found on the sideboard in the creative seminar room Maria or
Rhön literature in the wellness lobby. Have fun browsing.
We have one big request for you. Please return the books to their original place. Most of them are the private property of the owner family and are close to our hearts.
Salt tunnel - inhale healthy air
Relax in a quiet, earthy atmosphere and breathe in the high-quality crystal salt air while listening to soft music. The small sundew saline lets salty water run over Rhön hawthorn rice vinegar, enriching the air in the salt tunnel with salt. There are also intensive salt inhalation times. Here, crystal salt brine is nebulized by ultrasound - a blessing for the skin and respiratory tract!
The neutral power of the salt can create self-healing and regulating resonances. The body absorbs the high frequency pattern of the crystal salt and thus eliminates its energy deficit. A stay of at least 15 minutes is recommended.
At Hotel Sonnentau, we use light-power crystal salt, in which the essential elements are naturally integrated in their crystalline structures.
brainLight massage chair
brainLight 4D Shiatsu massage chair Zenesse
Product of the year! Awarded and honored. It doesn't get any better than this.
When designing the brainLight 4D Shiatsu massage chair Zenesse, the developers were inspired entirely by Eastern philosophy and created an elegant interplay of opposites, yin and yang, passive and active, which is necessary to harmonize body, mind and soul.
Zenesse is thus able to cradle you and touch you gently, but also massage, stretch, stretch and strengthen you strongly - depending on what you need to find your center. Thanks to an intelligent body sensor, the chair not only adjusts its massage vertically, horizontally and in depth to your body, but also determines your individual back contours - hence the name "4D". The massage techniques are based on both classic Swedish massage and Japanese Shiatsu and work along various acupressure points so that your life energy "Qi" can flow freely. The latter in turn is based on the meridian theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Let yourself be pampered.
This holistic experience promotes concentration and skillfully reduces stress. You will be thrilled. We already were with the previous model.
You will find the brainLight massage chair in our Balance Point 2. Coins are available at reception.
You can also find out more about the Hotel Sonnentau directly via the following link on the brainLight website:
https://www.brainlight.de/brainlight-geniessen/hotels/hotel-sonnentau.html
Saunas and steam baths
Rhöner Schwitzstube | Kelo outdoor sauna
The Rhöner Schwitzstube is a classic Finnish-style kelo sauna in the open air with a panoramic view of the town of Fladungen and the natural Rhön landscape. Sweat hot and intensively at 90-95°, then take a cold shower and relax ... and in winter you can also roll around in the snow. That's it!
Panorama sauna
The spacious panorama sauna - in the classic Finnish style - offers a magnificent view of the town of Fladungen and the idyllic Rhön landscape. At 85-90° C you can sweat intensively and detoxify. The direct access to the outside with a feel-good view completes the sauna experience at the Sonnentau in excellent form.
Gentle sauna

Sweat in our small Finnish sauna at a gentle 75° C.
Crystal steam bath
Rhassoul steam bath
This special steam bath provides the most pleasant kind of mist. With high humidity and mild radiant heat, the addition of fragrances and essences enhances your well-being.
Can also be booked as a private spa with rhassoul treatment, tropical rain shower and gentle sounds - and time all to yourself.