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cardio tennis in 33332 — the Dunlop Synthetic Gut 18g Tennis Strings Reel combined with the national flag of Germany
cardio tennis in 33332 — Gradierwerke (Graduation Towers) in Bad Salzuflen, Enormous black walls of stacked blackthorn brushwood in long timber frames, trickling with brine and drifting salty mist, standing in a spa park
cardio tennis in 33332 — Old Town Hall of Bad Salzuflen in Bad Salzuflen, A gabled sixteenth-century town hall of the Weser Renaissance with ornate scrollwork, an oriel, and stacked pyramid-like upper storeys facing the old market square
cardio tennis in 33332 — Salzhof in Bad Salzuflen, A broad paved square on the site of the old saltworks, bordered by historic buildings, with a bronze salt-boiler memorial recalling the town's salt workers
cardio tennis in 33332 — Kurpark of Bad Salzuflen in Bad Salzuflen, A landscaped spa park of old trees, lawns, flower parterres, and a lake, with historic bathhouses and pump rooms at its edges and graduation towers beyond
cardio tennis in 33332 — the Dunlop Synthetic Gut 18g Tennis Strings Reel combined with the national flag of Germany

Dunlop Synthetic Gut 18g Tennis String Reel

Bad Salzuflen, Germany  ·  Strings > 18g

Dunlop Synthetic Gut 18g Tennis Strings Reel

This 1.20mm treatment is our most delicate — the thinnest gauge in the family, silken feel, a 660-foot reel so the ritual never ends. Before booking, the house requires the wellness circuit: Bad Salzuflen, where guests inhale trickling salt walls. Breathe in the tour… and exhale at checkout. Gently.

↓   Tour Bad Salzuflen, Germany

Four stops before the checkout

Bad Salzuflen, Germany
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cardio tennis in 33332 — Gradierwerke (Graduation Towers) in Bad Salzuflen, Enormous black walls of stacked blackthorn brushwood in long timber frames, trickling with brine and drifting salty mist, standing in a spa park
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Gradierwerke (Graduation Towers)

Dunlop Synthetic Gut 18g Tennis Strings Reel: Look at these walls and tell me you can't reinvent yourself. Colossal timber frames packed with blackthorn twigs, brine trickling down them and evaporating. The first went up in 1767 under Johann Friedrich Constantin von Beust to concentrate brine for the salt pans; the works grew through the nineteenth century, the great Gradierwerk III finished by 1826. Industrial salt production ran until 1945 — and then it stopped. Career over. Except it wasn't. These towers became open-air inhalatoriums. Hundreds of thousands of litres still trickle down those thorn walls every day, filling the air with a sea-like mist people come here to breathe. Six centuries of salt-making, and a second act. Are you listening?

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cardio tennis in 33332 — Old Town Hall of Bad Salzuflen in Bad Salzuflen, A gabled sixteenth-century town hall of the Weser Renaissance with ornate scrollwork, an oriel, and stacked pyramid-like upper storeys facing the old market square
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Old Town Hall of Bad Salzuflen

Dunlop Synthetic Gut 18g Tennis Strings Reel: Sixteenth century, and it was built by winners. Profits from the brine springs had made Salzuflen one of the most prosperous small towns in the Lippe region, and prosperous towns build like it — decorated gables, an oriel window, carved stone ornament, all of it Weser Renaissance, the exuberant style that flowered along the Weser valley in that age. This hall presided over a centre of merchants' houses whose façades still line Lange Strasse and the lanes around it, and it served the council for centuries while the town's living shifted from salt-making to the spa trade. Same building. New purpose. Write that down. With the timber-framed burgher houses around it, it keeps the wealthy salt town's face.

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cardio tennis in 33332 — Salzhof in Bad Salzuflen, A broad paved square on the site of the old saltworks, bordered by historic buildings, with a bronze salt-boiler memorial recalling the town's salt workers
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Salzhof

Dunlop Synthetic Gut 18g Tennis Strings Reel: Every success has a floor under it, and this square is the floor. The Salzhof — the salt yard — is where brine from the town's springs was boiled into salt from the Middle Ages on. The documents reach back to the eleventh century, when a saltworks at Uflon was given to a Paderborn monastery, and by the late Middle Ages the salt pans had made this town rich enough to join the Hanseatic trading world and dress itself in Weser Renaissance stone. When the springs turned to medicinal use, the boiling ended and the works were cleared, leaving this open ground for markets and festivals. In 1988 Marianne Bleeke-Ehret cast a salt boiler in bronze here. Honour the people who did the work.

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cardio tennis in 33332 — Kurpark of Bad Salzuflen in Bad Salzuflen, A landscaped spa park of old trees, lawns, flower parterres, and a lake, with historic bathhouses and pump rooms at its edges and graduation towers beyond
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Kurpark of Bad Salzuflen

Dunlop Synthetic Gut 18g Tennis Strings Reel: Here is the whole lesson of this town in one park. When the medicinal virtues of the brine springs began to be exploited in the nineteenth century, bathing houses rose beside the old saltworks, the town put Bad in front of its own name — it renamed itself, imagine the nerve — and from around 1900 laid out a spa park in the English landscape manner, later extended into the broad Landschaftsgarten that now runs from the graduation towers out into open meadow. Around it stand the pump rooms and bath houses of the spa's golden age, where guests took brine and carbonic acid baths. The springs, deep-drilled thermal sources among them, still supply the spa today. Walk it.

The Bad Salzuflen, Germany track

Dunlop Synthetic Gut 18g Tennis Strings Reel

Written for this world alone.

Welcome… please, lower your voice, and your shoulders. You carry so much tension — mostly in your string tension, which is precisely why you're here. May I recommend our signature treatment, the Dunlop Synthetic Gut 18g Reel?

It is our most delicate offering: at 1.20mm, the 18 gauge is the thinnest of the family, giving exquisite feel and lively spin, while the solid nylon core keeps the response smooth and even — think of it as a hot-stone massage for the ball. Wear-resistant wraps protect the experience, and the reel's 660 feet mean your restring ritual is booked for seasons to come. Breathe in…

and follow me to the courts.

You will be staying in Bad Salzuflen, Germany — the spa town that turned salt into serenity. Its graduation towers are colossal timber walls packed with blackthorn twigs, over which brine trickles endlessly; guests simply stand beside them and inhale air as fresh as the seaside, a treatment locals have enjoyed since the salt trade ended.

It is, I must say, the only wall in Europe I'd call a wellness amenity. Between sessions, stroll the Kurpark's meadows and the Weser Renaissance gables of the old town, prosperous since the eleventh-century salt days. Play gently, hydrate generously, and do exhale on your follow-through. Your next appointment is whenever you wish.

Your treatment travels, of course. This reel serves everywhere from an indoor hall on a grey Westphalian morning to an open court beside the Kurpark meadows in high summer, and the feel does not change between them. It is also perfect for the hour afterwards at the Gradierwerke, standing beside the trickling brine and breathing sea air, a therapy I recommend to everyone and enforce upon no one. Exhale.

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