Two rinks built over the swimming basins in 1969 to extend the season of a 1911 open-air bath.
Currently out of season The canton of Basel-Stadt page for the Kunsteisbahn Eglisee gives the 2026/27 season as 9 November 2026 to 7 March 2027 and prints the weekly opening hours from that date; the first public session is on 9 November 2026. Checked on 4 October 2026. Official schedule update
The Eglisee began in 1911 as the Luft- und Sonnenbad Egliseeholz, built after the old bathing house on the Riehenteich was torn down for the Badischer Bahnhof, and in 1930-31 it was converted into a garden pool. To lengthen the annual operating season, two artificial ice rinks were inaugurated in 1969. Every winter one is built over each of the two swimming basins, one for skaters and one for hockey players, and the professional rink can host hockey tournaments. The association Kunschti Eglisee runs them.
The ammonia ice plant built in 1969 lost its operating permit at the end of 2014, because new stricter environmental rules could not be met in the groundwater protection zone. To avoid rebuilding the ice every year over the swimming basins, the plan was to move the ice of the swimmers' basin onto the summer sunbathing lawn, with a pipe grid under the turf. A balloon hall over the 50-metre pool went into operation on 2 October 2017. Today the rink offers a large and a small field, and on some evenings the ice turns into a disco.
Admission, rentals and arrival details, researched from official rink information. Source checks stay current for 30 days.
A single ticket costs CHF 8 for adults from 16, CHF 5 for pupils, apprentices and students with ID, CHF 3 for children from 6 to 16, CHF 1.50 for young people with a colourkey and CHF 1 for spectators; evening tickets from Monday to Friday after 19:00 are reduced.
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Skates rent for CHF 5 and sharpening costs CHF 10; sticks rent for CHF 2.50, children's helmets for CHF 1 and two-blade skating aids for CHF 2.
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Single tickets are bought at the counter of a Kunsteisbahn or online; no booking is needed to skate.
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The facility is step-free, but the ice surfaces themselves are not accessible.
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