Karl's tourism

Karl's tourism
legal form	GmbH
founding	1921
Seat	Rövershagen , Germany
management	Robert Dahl
Number of employees	700 fixed, 2800 seasonal
Branch	rural amusement park
Website	www.karls.de
	Status: 2018

The Charles Tourismus GmbH , based in Rövershagen is an operator of theme parks as well as a producer of agricultural products. Under the name of Karls Erlebnis-Dorf (formerly Karls Erlebnishof or Karls Erdbeerhof ), the company currently operates five agriculturally themed amusement parks in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Schleswig-Holstein and Brandenburg . The company also includes the von Barby manor in Möckern - Loburg and Karls Pier 7 in Rostock - Warnemünde . The owner is the Dahl family.

history

View from the potato sack chute in Elstal near Berlin

Strawberry obelisk and strawberry basket of the village in Rövershagen near Rostock

Karl Dahl, the grandfather of today's company manager Robert Dahl, had been running a farm near Rostock since 1921 . He sold the produce at the weekly market. After the Second World War , the family moved to Warnsdorf near Lübeck , where Karl Dahl's son Karl-Heinz continued the farm. The farm, which had now specialized in strawberry cultivation , became a supplier for the Schwartauer Werke .

At the turn of 1989, Schwartau canceled the contracts because the supplies now available from Eastern Europe were cheaper. In order not to have to give up the farm, Karl-Heinz Dahl planned a direct sale of the strawberries in Lübeck. For this he had 15 strawberry-shaped sales stalls built by a boat builder. The model for this was the stalls at a tennis tournament at Wimbledon, which Dahl had seen in a photo.

The then 22-year-old Robert Dahl then opened a strawberry farm in Rövershagen- Purkshof near Rostock on the B 105 , one of the main routes for tourists to the Baltic Sea, at the behest of his father Karl-Heinz . In addition to strawberries, he was soon selling coffee and cake, sausages and local products in a farm shop there. In this way, the Erdbeerhof developed over time into one of the largest farmers' markets in Germany. Since 2001 it bears the name of his grandfather, "Karl's Adventure Village".

In 2012 a second adventure farm was opened in Zirkow on Rügen , in 2014 courtyards in Warnsdorf and Elstal near Berlin followed , and since March 2016 there has been a fifth adventure village in Koserow on Usedom . The Barbycafé was opened in Loburg in Saxony-Anhalt in 2018 .

The construction of a strawberry land with overnight accommodation is also planned at the Elstal site. A bathing lake and up to 400 holiday homes with 2000 beds are to be built on 71 hectares on the area of the former Löwen barracks. The total investment is 100 million euros, and construction is scheduled to start in 2019. In the spring of 2021, the "Strawberry Land" is to be opened.

concept

The entrance area of the adventure village in Warnsdorf.

Karl's adventure village with strawberry promenade in Rövershagen

Karl's adventure villages are a mixture of a farm shop , a glass factory , a restaurant and amusement rides. Admission is generally free. A usage fee has to be paid for some attractions, but there are also day and annual tickets with which all rides can be used without limitation. The adventure villages are open all year round.

In the farm shop you can buy groceries and items from our own production, primarily around the topic of strawberries. In the factories at the individual locations, coffee is roasted, soap, sweets, ice cream and chocolate are made, jam is cooked and bread is baked. The products are sold both on site and in an online shop. Other attractions include: B. slides, a roller coaster, an adventure aquarium, Tobeland, two ice sculpture exhibitions, tractor rides and the largest coffee pot collection in the world with over 50,000 pots (as of 2017). In addition, the company has around 300 hectares of strawberry fields in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, which are harvested from May to October. You can also pick the fruits yourself at three locations. In addition, the strawberries grown there are offered at around 400 stalls in Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Leipzig as well as Berlin and the Berlin area. In total, Karls harvests 80,000 tons of strawberries a year. With 1.2 million visitors in 2014, the adventure village in Rövershagen is the most popular tourist attraction in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It is planned to build a separate stop called Rövershagen - Karls Erlebnisdorf on the Stralsund – Rostock railway line by 2022 .

Locations

Karl's locations
Surname	place	opening
Karl's adventure village Rövershagen	Rövershagen -Purkshof near Rostock	1993
Karl's adventure village Warnsdorf	Ratekau-Warnsdorf near Lübeck	2014
Karl's adventure village Elstal	Wustermark - Elstal near Berlin	2014
Karl's adventure village Koserow	Koserow on Usedom	2016
Karls Erlebnis-Dorf Zirkow	Zirkow on Rügen	2012
Pier 7	Rostock - Warnemünde
Barby manor	Möckern - Loburg near Magdeburg	2018

Accommodation options

Karl's favorite arbor in Rövershagen

Karls has been offering overnight accommodation at the Rövershagen location since 2017. It all started in 2017 near the Rövershagen adventure village. Behind the Esso petrol station, 18 holiday bungalows have been converted and opened. Since then they have been called "Favorite Arbors", some of which have their own sauna. In 2018, the upcycling hotel “Alles Paletti” with 50 rooms for up to 5 people and a sauna area was opened right next to the Rövershagen adventure village. You can also spend the night in the Rövershagen ice world. Overnight accommodations are planned at the Elstal site for 2021. There should be up to 2000 beds in differently designed houses.