Best of 2021: New entries in Germany, Austria, Switzerland

As every year, at the beginning of January we publish the holiday domiciles that our readers particularly liked last year. The ranking is determined by how often a post was read.

In the third part of our Best of series you will find the most popular new houses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The most popular new domiciles in Germany, Austria and Switzerland:

Holiday home

Ferienhaus Selma

Selma is enthroned like a peep box on a slope in Gehlberg, the highest mountain village in the Thuringian Forest. The wooden cube presents the nature of the UNESCO biosphere reserve in widescreen format.

Holiday home

Altes Dorfhaus Sechzehneichen

The Altes Dorfhaus Sechzehneichen invites you to take a relaxing break in the Brandenburg province. The holiday home is located in the small village of Sechzehneichen, surrounded by meadows and forests, and only a 1.5 or 2-hour drive from the metropolises of Berlin and Hamburg respectively.

Holiday home

Haus in Matzwitz

You could almost mistake the house in the village of Matzwitz, situated in the hinterland of Hohwachter Bucht (Hohwacht Bay), for a barn – if it weren’t for the oversized window that gives it an extravagant touch!

Holiday home // Resort

DIE.VIER in Wieck

Baltic Sea and Bodden, art and culture! Besides its natural beauty, the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula offers a wide variety of cultural attractions: from the galleries at the Ahrenshoop artists’ colony to the Darß Nature Film Festival and the Photo Festival in Zingst.

Holiday home

Maison Südpfalz

The name of the house is also the description of its location: the vacation home Maison Südpfalz is located only 20 kilometres from the French border on the Southern Wine Route in the village of Klingenmünster.

Apartment

Ferienwohnungen Mittermurnthal

Minimalism in a former glass grinding and polishing factory: in Murnthal in the Upper Palatinate Forest Nature Park, the two puristically and stylishly furnished Mittermurnthal holiday apartments invite you to take a break.

Holiday home

Bleibe Menzenschwand

Raised on the slope on concrete supports, yellow window frames and an unconventional roof: Bleibe Menzenschwand demonstrates the courage to be individual. The holiday home sits on a steep western slope in Menzenschwand, a district of St. Blasien in the southern Black Forest.

Holiday home

Das Studio Uckermark

Relaxing or working in the rural seclusion of the Uckermark – both is possible at Studio Uckermark. The former stable is surrounded by the rolling meadows of a former farmstead with buildings enclosing a central yard on three sides.

Apartment // Holiday home

Neugrad

Oblique angles and straight lines characterise the Neugrad holiday homes in the Eifel National Park. The ensemble of seven wooden houses seems to have been distributed randomly on the untouched, spacious property.

Hotel

Alpenloge

The Alpenloge is a small hotel in the Allgäu region, where modern-elegant design and the style of the 1930s combine with Bavarian mountain panoramas. 

Holiday home

Schedlberg

Masterful “patchwork” in the Bavarian Forest! Architect Peter Haimerl is both a preservationist and an innovator. His buildings – many of which have won awards – such as the Blaibach Concert Hall are idiosyncratic, strong in character and venture beyond conventional architecture.

Holiday home

Collage – Ferien

The Collage holiday home illustrates the potential that an ageing house from the 1970s can offer. Situated in a holiday village in Bernau, a town in the Black Forest, the house has been transformed into a contemporary, modern holiday home.

Apartment // Hotel

statthaus – statt Hotel

Right in the middle of vibrant Cologne and yet in a quiet location – the statthaus is located in a small side street in Cologne’s traditional Gereonsviertel district, with the cathedral in sight and within walking distance.

Holiday home

Zuhaus Freiweidach

Farmhouse reloaded: In the Upper Bavarian town of Marquartstein, Philipp Möller Architekten have refurbished a farm ensemble and converted it into three individual residential units.

Holiday home

Villa Auguste

The listed Wilhelminian-style villa is located a good hour’s drive from the German capital – in the middle of fields and surrounded by a spacious garden.

Holiday home

STRANDWEISS & STRANDGRAU

On the Baltic Sea island of Usedom, a family from Berlin built two holiday homes exactly as they wanted them to be.

Apartment

Palais Wunderlich

A historical patrician house in the small town of Lahr in Baden on the edge of the Black Forest redefines itself as a stylish guesthouse with holiday apartments and event location.

Apartment

Loft Atelier Dietzold

The art scene and industrial heritage are closely intertwined in Leipzig – a fact that guests can experience in the loft named Atelier Dietzold. The holiday apartment is located in an old factory building, the former Dietzoldwerke in the west of the city.

Holiday home

Mosel Chalets

The Moselle Chalets in Pommern, one of the oldest wine-growing villages on the Moselle, appeal not only to wine lovers but also to people with an interest in modern architecture.

Apartment // Holiday home

Haus am Kellersee

Haus am Kellersee is a Wilhelminian-style villa situated directly on the shore of the second-largest lake in Holstein Switzerland. Situated on the edge of a forest between Eutin and the spa town of Malente, the villa from 1910 has been extensively refurbished and converted.

In the first part of our Best of 2021 series, we present the most popular holiday domiciles in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

In the second part you will find the most popular international entries. In the fourth part you will find the most popular international new entries and in the fifth part of the Best of 2021 series you will find the holiday domiciles with the best guest feedback.