Are you planning your vacation and get excited about the rustling of tarpaulins? Or catch yourself, as you fold in the head the camper of the mobile home to a couch surface? You love the feeling of not sleeping in a house with real walls, but in the middle of nature?

Then you will surely know great campsites and maintain a list of places where you want to pitch your tent or park your motorhome. So it is Michael Moll, a camping enthusiast, who has just published the book "" 111 German campsites that you have to know. "

The travel journalist is a motorhome driver, has traveled the world for years and lived in his vehicle for three years. In 2016, he fulfilled his dream of owning a campsite and opened a camperplace in Nordhrein-Westfalen.

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From the North Sea to Zugspitze: Germany's most beautiful campsites

Moll's small-format book, published by Emons Verlag, is not a travel guide in the classical sense. It reads more as an inspirational list that camping fans can use to plan their next stages and vacations. For each of the 111 entries, the author provides a short text and the most important information on opening hours, arrival and special offers.

Is there a bread service, a barbecue or a restaurant? Do the owners rent bikes, SUP boards or dinghies? Does the place only have pitches for tents and campers or also special accommodations such as Schäferwagen, wooden huts or even a Schlaffass?

Campsites of superlatives

The choice of 111 places seems very subjective. There are certainly not only the most popular copies here, but - as mentioned in the book title - those German campsites, "you have to know".

This includes Michael Moll and those who come up with a superlative: There would be the northernmost campsite in Germany (in Kampen on Sylt), perhaps the greenest (camping paradise Green Hunter in Lower Saxony Sottrum), the oldest (Camping Berger in Cologne), the largest (Camping Grav-island in Nordhrein-Westfalen and with probably the steepest driveway (Nature Park Camping Suleika in Baden-Wuerttemberg).

Especially the camp Buntsprecht, the minor is called the darkest in the country. It is located in the Westerhavelland Nature Park, which was designated as a light protection area in 2011, because the starry sky is easy to marvel at thanks to the lack of artificial light. Moll's tip: "Turn off the light in the camper and look up."

Campsites in spectacular locations

But a superlative alone is unlikely to be the criterion for tent and motorhome travelers to choose a location. Rather, the situation is probably crucial - and that's often nice when the world from the motorhome window looks green or when seagulls pierced through the tent wall.

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Whether by the sea, on a lake or in the middle of the mountains - Moll's campsite collection offers something for every taste. Here some examples:

  • There is the camping resort Zugspitze in the Bavarian town of Grainau , which according to the author is located exactly eight kilometers from Germany's highest peak. Moll recommends picking a space in the row on the right because it faces south and therefore offers the best view of the 2962 meter high Zugspitze . "The only downside: in the afternoon you look against the light and see the mountain therefore only from its shady side," it says in the book. But: "In sunny weather you should stay on the mountain anyway."
  • Tourists who check in at the campsite Mosel Islands near Treis-Karden or at the Sonnenwerth Camping on the Hatzenporter Werth experience the special flair of a river island . Both are lapped by the waters of the Moselle and, according to Moll, offer "a large number of generous shelves". His conclusion: "In the middle of Germany you are completely isolated on an island, and can not do anything relaxed."
  • Close to the water are also built the places on the Schleswig-Holstein peninsula Eiderstedt. Camping Biehl in St. Peter-Ording offers beach-side pitches for tents and campers. And if you are still close to the beach, you can drive directly to the beach with your mobile home or the Bulli and stop there between 7.30 am and 10.30 pm during the day. St. Peter-Ording is the only place in Germany where you can do that - at least between mid-March and October and for a fee of six euros per day. "At the northern part of the beach, there are over 800 meters in north-south extent, where you will always find a parking space," writes Moll. "When leaving the Womos you are directly in the sand, and you look at the waters of the North Sea."

Africa, America - or just the South Seas?

Some of the German campsites listed in the book do not sound like the places where they are, but rather the wide world.

  • In the seaside California lies the holiday park California , a campsite right on the beach. Here you can "watch the shipping traffic into the Kieler Bay", ride on horses and ponies - or "take a walk on the beach to Brazil - that's the name of the neighboring district."
  • The South Sea camp in Wietzendorf in Lower Saxony is located on a large lake, which is completely surrounded by sandy beaches. In spite of the name, Polynesian tradition will not be met, but in the middle of the Lüneburg Heath there is a miniature golf course with the name "Jungle Golf" and the Kontiki Bar. It is named after the Kon-Tiki, a raft made of balsa wood, with which the Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl undertook an expedition from South America to the South Seas in 1947.
  • Cameroon Camping is located on the north-western shore of Binnenmüritz , a smaller section of Lake Müritz. According to Moll, not only the name reminds of Africa. Already at the time of registration, one encounters sculptures that are "attributable to African art and culture" and in the washrooms hang the portrait of an African tribal leader. The restaurant serves coconut soup.

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Michael minor
111 German campsites to know: Travel guide

Publishing company:

Emons Verlag

Pages:

240

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EUR 16,95

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