Holiday home for max. 8 adults + 2 children
Bad Windsheim, Franconia, (Middle Franconia), Germany

An accomplished interplay of nostalgia and modernity in a historical house, for an unforgettable holiday for couples, families and larger families

This heritage-protected building from the year 1775 is in the centre of Ickelheim, part of the spa town of Bad Windsheim, to the west of Nürnberg. The house offers two holiday apartments (atraveo nos. 705681 on the ground floor and 705691 on the first floor), each for four people, with harmonising interiors and decoration.

The apartments can be booked either separately or together. When booking the upper-floor apartments, it is possible to book the two additional bedrooms in the attic for four further people. The apartments in the restored house are ideal for culture and nature lovers, gourmets and the health conscious. All the materials used in the house have been processed according to ecological factors. In 2008 the owner bought an empty, dilapidated and neglected farmhouse. After stripping it back carefully and restoring it expertly, the “Snow White” has awakened again and invites you to enjoy a holiday in a historical setting. It offers its guests a warm atmosphere, combining tradition and aesthetics. The aim of the renovation was to preserve as many original features as possible and to restore the layout and room usage of the time when it was built. Therefore the newly built bathroom is outside of the old house. Many details reveal the old history of the house and its residents. It provides an ideal setting for a holiday as a couple, with friends or with the whole family. What could not be restored or repaired was reconstructed according to the original, such as the windows, the floorboards and the clay tiles in the kitchen. With the design, the owner wanted to use mainly stylistically appropriate furniture from the first half of the 19th century. In areas where a museum character would be at the expense of well-being and comfort, he has chosen high-quality, functional and modern furniture items. Every surface and item has been carefully chosen or designed. Plastic, plasterboard and concrete have been almost entirely avoided. It was a conscious choice not to include a TV, in order to give the guests staying there a sense of past times.

Outside the house there is a terrace with garden furniture and you can enjoy a grill evening outdoors. You can borrow bicycles and use the parking space on site for your car.

The house is not far from the centre, with shopping facilities, supermarkets, restaurants and a tennis court within 300 metres. The spa town of Bad Windsheim is 6km away. There are medieval villages and towns with many museums, as well as green landscapes and lakes in the area, worth day trips.

Ground-floor apartment for four people with many nostalgic details

The apartment on the ground floor provides a living room of over 50m², which you enter directly through the front door. The last residents used this room as a cow barn. The original layout can still be seen in the reused historical terracotta slabs in the former hallway. The bathroom is proof that history can be combined successfully with comfort. It has an integrated well with a historical mirror, as well as a shower, WC and urinal, a washbasin made of shell limestone. The bedroom has a double bed made of hand-hewn soft wood beams. The kitchen provides both traditional and modern kitchen appliances for convenient self-catering. If you do not wish to try your luck with the wood-burning stove, you can use the induction hob, which can be pulled out from the kitchen unit. A coffee machine, toaster, kettle and fridge with freezer compartment are also provided. The kitchen has a dining table in a country style for four people. The living room provides two very comfortable, high-quality sofas, which can be pulled out as sofa beds measuring 120 x 200cm.