Kitchen Lovers
Germany has many unique cultural aspects, but one in particular stands out: Germans take their kitchens with them everywhere they go. After Tim and I moved to Germany, we were told by everyone who visited the apartment, you have a nice kitchen! But they were really impressed when we told them that it was part of the apartment - because in Germany, that’s almost unheard of. Even people who rent apartments tend to take their kitchen with them, so most apartments for rent don’t even have a kitchen.
Don’t ask me how you would possibly move a kitchen, even having one put in so that it fits with the hookups in the wall sounds like a challenge to me. Tim and I are looking at moving, and the place we’re going to move to doesn’t have a kitchen. But the previous owners did leave the tiles on the wall that were between the top cabinets and the work surface! Don’t know if that will do us much good. So we’ll probably be buying a kitchen soon, but again - this is Germany, they’re in love with kitchens. In Aschaffenburg alone without even pulling out the yellow pages we know of 5 kitchen shops. Updates to follow!
on November 1st, 2006 at 18:12
Wow, interesting! I had no idea.
on November 13th, 2006 at 18:57
To be more precise, this baffling tradition seems to be a southern German thing… I’ve been told that elsewhere in the Heimat most people also agree that “if it ain’t broke, don’t move it.”