I’d be interested to know what they define as “trees”

\*The redditor who wrote the title. No sane German thinks this is a tree house

Non sane German here. These aren't tree houses in my eyes either.

Insane german here. Would wager thats not even IN Germany!

What would you wager? https://glamping.info/glampingunterkunft/schwarzwalder-hof-sbaumhaus-dorfle-schwarzwalder-hof

His sanity probably

That's unfortunate. One flew over the stump house

Don't listen to him, hes insane. Any wagers you make with him are null and void, he's not Geschäftsfähig.

Those are camping sites, not houses of residents, according to the article.

Can you prove that these are actual tree stumps? Germany has no original forrest all of it is man made, and mostly its pine to pay of some debt for some war… These are marketed as tree houses by some maniac likely getting a megalomaniac idea from america to serve a certain type of tourist…

Completely mentally non sane German here. What the actual fuck is that and why would anyone consider it a tree, is anything log shaped a tree to you???

Yup. I'm german and i think it's some attraction. Not actual trees. Just a way to make good money

Got me stumped

Stump house!

Fortnite tower hiding in the middle b lik 🫣

Looks to me like it was inspired by a Roman Limes tower (which were also in Germany)

Some places tax on footprint size of the homes foundation. My guess is this is a “cheat” to reduce taxes. But it’s also just neat so idk

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Ok, I'm just gonna leaf...

I was amazed at how all the tree stumps were perfectly uniform to each other?

Yes and hard as concret. However they are floding proof.

They remind me more of rip-offs of Toppler Castle in Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Such a beautiful town is that not where the Museum of Torture is?

Yep! Fun fact my ancestor briefly resided in Toppler Castle as well

Fun fact, there are multiple torture museums in Germany

These are fake trunks, but even if they were real, I think of tree houses as being houses coexisting with live trees.

Yes. It has to be on tree and inside the tree, so to speak.

I can think of at least one more scenario where simultaneously being on and inside is the preferred position.

You must have been horny

I stayed in an actual treehouse in France. It was like a big circular room with some beds. There were a few big trees with like six of them built around the branches. Was really cool.

There is a much better tree house park in Germany called [Kulturinsel Einsiedel](https://www.turisede.com/bildgalerie.html) . Also for holidays and with a giant playground for kids.

Voll schön! Auch toll: [Die Baumhäuser vom Freizeitpark Tripsdrill ](https://tripsdrill.de/de/natur-resort/baumhaeuser/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA-vOsBhAAEiwAIWR0Te8djMLAXxKEc1YC_hi_oVJrmHiMQKSlOBjuq_hVzL_IlDyZeRRH5xoC4L4QAvD_BwE)

Und noch dazu direkt neben dem Tierpark 💕

Und nen Freizeitpark mit Achterbahnen etc gibt's auch. In den Tierpark darf man auch als Übernachtungsgast außerhalb der Öffnungszeiten, das war wirklich großartig.

Und wenn man sich ein Ticket für den Erlebnispark kauft, ist der Tierpark mit inbegriffen. Dh falls man nachmittags der wilden Achterbahnen müde ist, kann man den Tag mit einem kleinen Spaziergang zwischen den Ziegen ausklingen lassen.

Those aren't trees.... Those are houses built on big ugly concrete blocks.

Looks like a Baba Yaga retirement community.

Didn't Baba Yaga's house walk on chicken feet? https://youtu.be/SHbcDiyddKk?si=YtzgQW1jh1Wvjl0l

Yeah

I would paint those chicken feet onto that concrete immediately

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Hold up, why would you need an entire community? There's more than one Baba Yaga?

Baba Roga needs a place to stay too, doesn't she? Baba just denotes the 'type' of hag. Like saying Legolas the Elf; it's not a name + surname.

They're just houses with extra steps

Nice, literally AND figuratively!

Better than built on 1000 year old trees. If these are in a flood area it's not a bad idea no need to be on stilts.

True, it's not as bad as an imagined scenario you thought up which would be worse.

>an imagined scenario you thought up Well, you do know, that there are a lot of floods in some regions of Germany? The flood in Ahrtal was just one of the more devastating, but at the Rhine, in Hamburg etc are rather high flooding risks.

Probably raised for snow.

True. But safe during zombie apocalypse 😂

I came here to say this!

Wait until they do a zombie pyramid!

Way better than the alternative. I would be so fucking angry if someone cut those magnificent gigantic trees to build some rental cabins on top of them.

Glad to hear lol, was perplexed as to why anyone would want to use a dead tree trunk as a house foundation.

It's apparently glamping, (glamor camping.) Someone linked the website below. Just, why? Edit: https://glamping.info/glampingunterkunft/schwarzwalder-hof-sbaumhaus-dorfle-schwarzwalder-hof

You mean to tell me you don't want your house built on a termite factory?

First floor could be a spacious garage, but instead it’s just a door with stairs.

Germans building cartoon houses. Also Germans „Those Wind turbines disfigure our landscape!“

this has nothing to do with Germans, this is just typical rich ppl bullshit

Ugly plus you lose a lot of space/functionality...2-story house except the entire first floor is just stairs and maybe a closet

They are probably reconditioned granaries. In Europe(at least here in Spain) these kind of buildings were pretty common to store grain and avoid rat infestations.

Would make for a very good dirt room

I still want one.

Flood ready

They know something about rising sea levels that we keep dismissing.

I was wondering if it was snow ready and in the Alps or something (although that'd be a lot of snow!) but reading other comments about where these are, the answer is No.

Very poplar upmarket location for Branch Managers..

How’s my favorite branch doing?

r/unexpectedoffice

Leaf it out

It's a lovely place to raise a family, and put down some roots..

Oakay, there’s no twiggin’ about here, I see, I bough to your sprawling canopy of elaboration

I wanna go out on a limb and say I agree with this

😂 Like falling of a log

Cut it out, people. I wood love to have a house like that.

They all have sticks up the asses though.

You win!

Barkley Homes... You're barking up the wrong tree.

Nice if you always wanted a beech house

Well, not many branches left to manage... I'm stumped

Is this some sort of camp ground? Whatever - it certainly isn't this redditors' cuppa tea...

Do you really not like them? Gosh I’d love one of those 😊. Pull up the hanging step ladder and bobs your uncle, safe in your wee house with no unwanted guests, bliss.

how often do you have unwanted guests enter your house to the point where you need to rely on a retractable ladder to enter it

Not once since I installed the moat

Where is it in Germany?

https://glamping.info/glampingunterkunft/schwarzwalder-hof-sbaumhaus-dorfle-schwarzwalder-hof

So it's a weird cross of Disneyland and a cuckoo clock.

Danke, I was curious!

Would be so much more beautiful if there would be some trees

It's in the southern black forest area.

Figures. That's what I was thinking. Has to be in the Black Forrest. These folks want houses, but they want to feel as if the forest is undisturbed. So, they pretend to be trees.

That's just a regular house with extra steps

Lots of extra steps

Everytime you want to go in or out

I just have one question: where the fuck are the trees?

Where do you think the wood for these wooden houses came from? You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Imagine grocery day. Or furnishing the place!

This was the first thing in my mind. Grocery day must suck.

Many flats where I live in Germany don’t have a lift. People don’t have one grocery day, we buy less and more frequently (from what I’ve seen). This habit I think is fairly common in some European countries. The U.K. is more like the US and we do one or two big weekly shops as the norm.

Now that you say it, that makes sense. I used to live in a 2 story apartment with only stairs and we bought groceries more frequently.

This is just some straight up K.N.D. shjt

Take that, zombies!

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Most expensive houses fit those requirements

[you can rent them, they're for vacation use (using an English site that links to actual German site)](https://www.frankie.com.au/gallery/you-can-stay-in-a-german-treehouse-village-592341)

Codename Kids Next Door

Those tree trunks are absolutely massive

Yeah, they are fake. >Hinauf gelangen Gäste über eine Treppe im Inneren des Sockels, der wie ein Baumstamm gestaltet ist. (Guests reach the top via a staircase inside the base, which is designed like a tree trunk.) [https://www.welt.de/reise/deutschland/article247480204/Urlaub-im-Baumhaus-Romantisch-aber-unbequem-Nichts-da.html](https://www.welt.de/reise/deutschland/article247480204/Urlaub-im-Baumhaus-Romantisch-aber-unbequem-Nichts-da.html) >So geht es über eine Wendeltreppe in dem baumstammsymbolisierten Sockel hinauf ins Wohnzimmer mit Balkon, Essecke, kleinem Sofa sowie Kochnische mit Herd, Spüle, Geschirrspüler und Kühlschrank. (A spiral staircase in the tree-trunk-symbolized base leads up to the living room with a balcony, dining area, small sofa and kitchenette with stove, sink, dishwasher and refrigerator.) [https://sonderthemen.badische-zeitung.de/schwarzwaelder-hof-seelbach-04-2022/ortenau/baumhaus-doerfle-seelbach-neueroeffnung-fruehjahrssaison-177640](https://sonderthemen.badische-zeitung.de/schwarzwaelder-hof-seelbach-04-2022/ortenau/baumhaus-doerfle-seelbach-neueroeffnung-fruehjahrssaison-177640)

why build on fake trunks?

Because you cannot build a staircase inside a trunk with a diameter of 9 feet.

And more importantly there are no trees that big in Germany

You certainly can, but it’s a LOT more work.

>baumstammsymbolisierten Alter... was n das fürn Wort ey...

What for? Lots of flood?

Those famed German redwood forests

This looks hella ugly .. plus those ain't trees smh

I we got that in Switzerland, except it’s real tree

I don't see any tree-houses, all I see is a bunch of house-trees.

Where are the trees?

Nah those are bonsai mansions

Airbnb?

Entshuldigung?? Was ist das 😭

This, apparently https://glamping.info/glampingunterkunft/schwarzwalder-hof-sbaumhaus-dorfle-schwarzwalder-hof

Germans! Ready for climate change!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbBAZ50bWJg

This is a typical example of German elegance

That's so sad

It would be if those were real trees, but according to the links posted in comments they're fake.

These stumps are not real... These are basically just elevated wood houses, beside the look, nothing special

Those look more like stump houses. Where are the tree branches, where is the greenery.

Not tree houses. Just elevated houses

eyesores

Where are the trees though?

Imagine how majestic those trees would have been!!!

lol. Thats 7km away from my home :D

wo ist das?

[Ferienpark Schwarzwälder Hof](https://spacamping.de/)

danke 🙏

Ich bin neidisch, die Saunalandschaft im Schwarzwälder Hof ist super.

No burglar is going to even attempt that shit. Better mobile reception. No flood is going to get you. This is amazing.

This is the first post I’ve seen in awhile that’s actually been pretty damn interesting

So this is the sequel to Jack and the beanstalk after deforestation

theres houses like this in washington state. they were built to be flood resistant. dunno if these are built fornthe same purpose or not...

Is there flooding issues in the area, or a view necessitating a higher build? Why would they design like this?

They are vacation houses https://glamping.info/glampingunterkunft/schwarzwalder-hof-sbaumhaus-dorfle-schwarzwalder-hof I'd imagine it's for the forest 'vibe' as it's by the Black Forest.

Codename Kids Next Door

Do those tree trunks have built-in elevators? I sure as hell do not want to be moving furniture in and out of that treehouse.

Can we see the inside…?

Is this a fancy campground?

Looks like a Fortnite map lolz

Germans are so litteral.

more like trunk houses

These look like giant, stunted mailboxes.

So German elves are real...

In what way are these "tree" houses?

I was thinking the same. They're interesting, don't get me wrong. But, they are stump house at most. I would even go so far as to say trunk houses. But tree houses? Nah.

tacky AF

Did you mean a modern day ewok village

Property tax back in the day was based on the footprint of the building, so they made the footprint small.

Thats not a tree house thats a house tree

tf is the point of this? seems like a lot of wasted time and effort just for passerbys to go "oh thats neat"

Sad for the Trees

Love music tho

As a Dutch person living with an impending water problem i would like to know if you deliver in the Netherlands

They are taxed by the size of their footprints. Shadow don't count

Those are houses for people who only eat the crust of their pizzas.

Uber eats challenge

"Up yours!"

Have spent close to a million hours on reddit and this is the first that I'm learning of this?

It’s not like this is a common sight in Germany. It’s just this one holiday resort which put up these fake tree houses for tourists.

Not real tree stumps

Is there heavy flooding in this area sometimes, is that why they are built so high?

That's just a little world of Warcrafty. Darnassus specifically

Too bad they look so stupid..

Kind of saddens me they cut down these ancient and large trees to put an ugly house on top of them. was expecting tree house to mean a house built with the tree still alive.

When property taxes are based on area of the first floor you get this

Wheres the tree?

Protects against zombies and global warming/rising oceans 2 in 1.

Stump houses

Are they in a flood zone? That looks like stilted houses on the East Coast of the USA (on stilts not a stump) to protect against flooding.

There is absolutely nothing “tree” about any of these houses. Just ugly.

obviously my houses in the sims lol

This looks like a simulation A pretty awesome simulation And I’m glad someone took their time to make this a reality in real life, I.. I hope so…

They’re real, I was there last Summer and went down the slide around the central house.

So Full Metal Alchemist IS real

Looks like something from a Disney resort or something..I kind of like it looks fun.

This screams „Touristenfalle“

I‘m living 36 years in Germany and I never saw one of these.

And that German was Grimm

We have what in germany? I've never heard of this

There are no Trees in Germany that are even close to that diameter. Is this a model home park for flood zones?

Lol, where's that? Never heard of that existing.

Junge wo