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Find out here where you can spend a farm holiday in Germany. A vacation on a farm in Germany is an experience that brings you closer to the people you are guests of. Sometimes you are allowed to work on the farms. Children feel particularly at home on a farm holiday.
There is even more to experience on a farm holiday in Germany. You can stay with a farmer, but also with a winemaker. The experience is different. While you learn more about everyday life in the fields or in the stables at the farmer, you can take a look behind the scenes of viticulture at a winemaker.
A farm holiday in Germany can be very varied. There is one or the other farmer or winemaker who offers you to work for him. Try his products. Wander through its fields or vineyards. And above all: get involved in personal encounters. The impressions you collect on a farm holiday in Germany show you what life in the country looks like. Enjoy it and learn more about it.
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Farm holidays in Germany also enable you to spend a vacation away from the crowds and the usual tourist routes. Holidays on a farm in Germany usually take place on one of the farms that are outside of towns in the middle of nature. You will find hiking trails right on your doorstep. You can grill on the terrace or in the garden of the farm. Get up close and personal with cows, sheep and other pets. Perhaps the farmer's wife will tell you one of her family recipes and let you in on the secrets of her kitchen? Farm holidays in Germany are varied, but by no means boring.
Many years ago, my grandmother showed me how to make butter in a butter churn. As a child, I would often sit in her kitchen and watch her make butter. That was a long time ago though. I would like to make my own butter again like I used to. We were allowed to see how it works in the Laufmuseum in Klietz.
Winemakers definitely attach great importance to beautiful architecture in the winery. This allows you to present your wines in a special way. In the Hirn winery in Untereisenheim am Main, the owner of the winery took an unusual approach.
Bad Neualbenreuth is about twenty minutes by car from Tirschenreuth, near the border with the Czech Republic. Quiet. Surrounded by an agricultural landscape and dense forests. In a cauldron over which “the Bohemian” blows all year round. The air is like champagne. It tingles.
On this culinary country tour you will taste Hessian specialties directly from the producer. Try Ahle Wurst in Northern Hesse. Stay in a country hotel known for its food in Hessen. Have a picnic in the rose garden. Enjoy the Riesling in the Rheingau. Discover how wonderful a holiday in Hessen is.
Do you like that too? Shopping in the farm shop and trying the homemade products there? I love enjoying hot chocolate with homemade cake from the farmer's kitchen. This is best done in farm shops with a café. We looked around for farm shops with cafés near Munich.
It's going to be real! As soon as we enter the Häckerwirtschaft of the Waigand winery in Erlenbach, the young winemaker Verena Waigand extends her hand in greeting, while one of her little sons looks at us curiously from her shoulder.
Wine experience is fun in Winzerkeller Sommerach! It offers its visitors many opportunities to enjoy, taste and experience the wine. We visited the wine cellar on our journey through the Franconian wine country and were impressed.
Directly behind the town of Ipsheim in Franconia, the Ipsheim vineyards rise below Hoheneck Castle, on whose clay soils Franconian wines that taste fine and aromatic grow. A country road winds up the mountain between the plots of the vintners, on which we walk through the vineyards undisturbed by car traffic.
A vacation on the farm at the Chiemsee is an opportunity to experience this lake and its surroundings authentically and up close. At the moment, a farm holiday on Lake Chiemsee is trendy. Away from the hustle and bustle, you can enjoy nature and the cuisine of the region.
A farm holiday in Bavaria is the best way to get to know the country and its people. You're staying with someone who lives off the land. There is often the opportunity to actively experience life on the farm.
