Germering Between Market, Museum and Leisure
Accommodation in Germering
Germering combines local history, market life and outdoor leisure. Local history takes centre stage at the ZEIT+RAUM Museum and along the Museum Trails, while the weekly market, town festival and activities at Lake Germering offer further highlights. If you are looking for a holiday apartment in Germering, one question can help with your travel plans: Would you mainly like to explore historic sites, stay active or spend time by the water? The range of activities offers concrete pointers for deciding.
Discover Local History
The ZEIT+RAUM Museum at the town hall presents the history of Germering in its permanent exhibition. The museum also illustrates the town’s development with original finds. The Museum Trails lead from the museum to significant archaeological sites and places of interest in Germering’s local history. The exhibition and trails therefore offer different ways to explore the past: the museum focuses on history and finds, while the trails lead to archaeological sites and historic places.
The “Time Travel Through Germering” geocaching tour offers a playful way to explore. It follows the Museum Trails and works like a treasure hunt. You can take the tour on your own or in small groups, such as with family. If you prefer a more playful approach, it offers an alternative to a traditional walking tour.
The ZEIT+RAUM Museum’s stated Sunday opening hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Check before your visit whether these hours are currently in effect.
Market Days and the Town Festival
The weekly “Green Market” takes place on Saturdays from 7:30 a.m. to noon at the market square by the town hall (Untere Bahnhofstraße/corner of Landsberger Straße); on Wednesdays, it is held at the same time at the Volksfestplatz on Kleinfeldstraße. The day of the week determines the market location, not the opening hours. Stalls offer fruit and vegetables, mainly from the surrounding region and from organic farming, as well as meat and sausages, cheese, fish, baked goods, antipasti, dressing and flowers.
Once a year, the town and its associations invite visitors to a three-day town festival at Therese-Giehse-Platz, in front of the town hall. If you would like to include the festival in your travel plans, check the town’s events calendar for current dates.
Activities, Trails and Time by the Lake
The leisure facility on Starnberger Weg has facilities for skateboarders and scooter riders, a pump track for all kinds of non-motorised wheeled vehicles, and a streetball hoop. Each activity offers something different: the pump track is designed for a range of non-motorised wheeled vehicles, while skateboarding, scootering and streetball each provide their own ways to get active.
The Archaeological and Historical Trails can be explored on foot or by bicycle, as well as with a pushchair or wheelchair. This makes them a different option from the geocaching tour: the trails are explicitly described as accessible in these ways, while the geocaching tour is set up as a treasure hunt and can be done alone or in small groups.
The recreation area around Lake Germering includes the GehölzErlebnisPfad (Woodland Discovery Trail), with four stations offering information about native trees and shrubs. The lake is also an unsupervised bathing area. Bear this in mind when swimming. Learning about nature at the stations and swimming in the lake are two different reasons to spend time in this recreation area.
Check the museum’s opening hours and the current festival dates in advance so you can plan your trip around the experiences that matter to you.
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