Princely sleep, bourgeois pay.

In northern Germany are dreams come true: Nowhere else in Europe are as close as castles in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. And even guests with a smaller budget can enjoy the lavish accommodations - as in the Schlosshotel in large plastic goods.
  Somewhere here must have a castle. "You have reached your destination," says the voice of the navigation device. Yes, but where? One avenue is through a seemingly deserted land. But then flashes but a pale yellow building between the oaks on. A gardener in the huge park zusammenharkt the foliage looks briefly. The representative on the gravel driveway crunches under the tires. Before the former aristocratic seat at the small lake Plasterer plätschert a fountain in the middle of a roundabout. Now is the Prunkbau no longer be ignored: The Castle Hotel is a large plastic castle - one in the picture.
Birte Nagel, director of this fairy tale castle in goods to the Philippines, may also be in the off-season does not complain about lack of guests: "It runs surprisingly well." Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was the "land area with the greatest momentum in tourism," says Bernd Fischer, managing director of the National Tourism Association. The Northern Province was as a tourist destination among other things, so popular because it is the high price sensitivity of the German equivalent. In plain English: The expenditure for a holiday in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is about 15 percent below the average level in Germany. Stately hotel delights are already starting from 35 euros per night.
The Internet can lock nights even more favorable be posted. Especially in the off-season, many chateau owners are forced to bring down prices. Vouchers for two people and three nights in Internet auction houses like Ebay partially for less than 100 euros auctioned. Even the castle hotel offers its large plastic beds on eBay. Such measures were necessary "to a certain base load to create," says Nagel, since July this year, the hotel director. And: The online auctions attract young tourists.
"We compete with discount travel offers abroad"
Is just a young couple from Hamburg angereist and has in the Palace Hotel for three days einquartiert. The two documents are from the noble ambience, the delicious food at the restaurant - and the price. The bottom line, each 16 euros per night paid. The double room, they have won at Ebay. After this experience bargains examined the couple now always the Internet for cheap holidays - and it looks specifically for castles in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Nevertheless holds Claudia Schaffhausen by such dumping prices low. She is chairman of the Association of castles, manor houses, farmhouses in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. So that even smaller hotels in the competition can say, before the association was about ten years ago.
All former palaces and noble seats in the union, which has been converted to hostels, are privately held and is a historical monument. "People like these individually designed tourism," said Schaffhausen. But "we all compete with discount travel offers abroad," says the 34-year-olds. They even carry the goods Gremmelin in Mecklenburg Switzerland, around 40 km from Rostock away.
The 22 houses of their association put more on "quality rather than on earth." But even in the palaces of the association, it will be very favorably sleep. The average price for a double room is 60 to 70 euros. "Up there is no limit," admits Schaffhausen On.
On every tenth square kilometers is a castle
If you're looking for a großherrschaftlichen accommodation, has in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania a great choice: On every tenth square kilometers is a castle - more than 2000 are as a whole. "In a density like nowhere else in Europe," says the Tourism Association spokesman fishermen. 300 houses were touristy used in about 220 of them to stay. And it will add what ever. For the country was a very imageträchtiges issue, says Fischer.
The history explains the high density Locks: Until 1701 in Mecklenburg inherited the first-born son is not reason alone, land and buildings. He had the power to his younger brothers share. The siblings ran about often in dispute - and divided the country. Each Regent then built his own residence, besides summer residence and hunting lodge.
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Castle lords from Essen
In July 1995 opened a large plastic castle and the adjacent building Kutscher its doors to guests who are between 54 rooms can choose. In the year before had the Essen couple Marga and Ernst Walloschke the past three years, vacant buildings ensemble from the community and bought a lot of money in repairing the dilapidated castle invested. They settled einreißen walls, the staircase newly formed panel and the interior style with substance wallpaper, elegant mahogany furniture and heavy curtains. Despite all the renovation work remains the castle houses - the wooden floorboards creak under the carpet in the entrance hall it smells a little musty, and it is bleak. But this also makes the charm of the house.
"It is expensive, an old building in shot to keep," says hotel director nail from experience. The monthly operating costs and expenses for repairs are higher than for new buildings. Moreover, a lot of money flowing into the monument. Many of the chateau owners were idealists, says Fischer, the last Euros in their homes for that reason.
Japanese prefer to go after Neuschwanstein
Schaffhausen and its association endeavor, the product "Castle Hotels in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" at home and abroad to place. The increased advertising to attract foreign visitors seems to pay off. Although there were still a few tourists who come from abroad - up to five percent - "but it is slowly and steadily," notes Gutschefin noted.
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Above all, there are Scandinavians who have discovered the region, but also British, Dutch, Swiss and French have. Americans and Japanese, however, rarely seen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. "The road you prefer to Neuschwanstein," said Schaffhausen.
For German Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has long ceased to tip more. "Many appreciated the family atmosphere in our homes," said Schaffhausen.
For the Hamburg couple is the day of departure came. The sun glistens on the Plasterer small lake. A heron in the water stake, makes the castle idyll almost perfect. The gardener harkt back foliage in the park together. Or still.