Check out the Minigolf-Atlas - a map listing miniature golf courses in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg.
I recently found out about the
Minigolf-Atlas, a project to map all of the minigolf courses in Germany and surrounding countries!
The project is run by the team at
Miniatur-Golf-Club Wetzlar eV. They are based in central Germany and created the project to record all the minigolf facilities throughout Germany. This includes locations where clubs are based and tournaments take place, as well as the many course locations where no competitions are held.
It's brilliant to see the efforts put into the project, and it'll be an excellent resource for people to get out and play for leisure, fun, and for competition and club play.
The Minigolf-Atlas team are putting together lists of courses in other countries, and it'll be interesting to see the website develop over time.
It'll be a handy resource if we can find the time to visit Germany again in the future! There are still some minigolf systems, including Cobi Golf and Star Golf that we haven't yet played, and these are localised in Germany (Cobi Golf) and Germany & Austria (Star Golf).
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| The Askoe Wien Swedish Felt Minigolf course in Vienna, Austria |
I didn't get a chance to play the 'Eternit' aka Miniature Golf course there as it was out of season.
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| The Askoe Wien Eternit Miniature Golf course in Vienna, Austria |
It was also the first place I saw the minigolf/snooker hybrid game of Pit-Pat.
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| Pit-Pat in Vienna, Austria |
My brother Christopher, a charter member of the
Crazy World of Minigolf Tour, and his family have visited a few courses in Germany and one in Luxembourg on their branch of the tour:
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| Minigolf in Zeltingen-Rachtig, Germany. Photo by Christopher Gottfried |
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| Miniature Golf in Kobern-Gondorf, Germany. Photo by Christopher Gottfried |
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| Minigolf in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany. Photo by Christopher Gottfried |
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| Höfner Stübl Miniature Golf in Sasbachwalden, Germany. Photo by Christopher Gottfried |
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| Miniature Golf in Remich, Luxembourg. Photo by Christopher Gottfried |
To date, we've visited 1,044 miniature golf courses. 997 of those have been in the British Isles, while 47 have been in overseas countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Poland, Singapore, Spain (& Lanzarote, Canary Islands), Sweden and the USA. When we began our travels there were around 600 courses in the UK. There are now more than 1,000, with
new courses opening all the time.
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