2009-04-02 06:57:15
Clothes will be strictly forbidden on the premises of Germany's first hotel for
nudists, which will open shortly in the southwestern Black Forest region.
Investors plan to set up a hotel catering exclusively to nudists in the
picturesque Black Forest town of Freudenstadt, which incidentally translates as
Town of Joys.
Guests will be required to remove their clothes at the entrance and must be
naked at all times while on the premises, according to the strict house rules
that have already been posted on the Internet.
"We hope to open as soon as possible," Silvia Probsthain, a member of staff at
the planned Hotel Rosengarten, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "It will be the first
comprehensively nudist hotel in Germany." There are similar hotels catering for
nudists in Scandinavia, Croatia and the south of France, said Probsthain.
The rules state that all guests must put towels on chairs and loungers before
using them, that there be no sexual harassment and that all sexual activity in
commonly accessible rooms is strictly forbidden. People who break the rules
will have to put their clothes on and leave.
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Freudenstadt's tourism director Michael Krause said the contracts for the hotel
hadn't been finalized yet and that it was unclear when the project will go
ahead. "I'm in two minds," Krause told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "It's always good if a
new hotel is set up but I'd prefer a normal hotel concept."
Nude hiking is proving increasingly popular in Germany and two villages in the
central Harz mountain range plan to mark special forest hiking routes for naked
ramblers. The practice is frowned on in neighboring Switzerland, however, where
authorities plan to fine such behavior.