Tiny houses in Berlin

Berlin is as much a city of water and woods as of streets: a third of its area is forest, river and lake. In the west lie the Havel bays at Spandau and the Wannsee, in the east the Müggelsee, at roughly 7.4 km² the city's largest lake. Lakeside bathing beaches (Strandbäder) can be found at Rahnsdorf on the Müggelsee and on the Wannsee; the wooded Müggelberge hills rise above the lake's southern shore. The centre has only hotels and apartments.

Berlin has no tiny-house resort. Seven houses are listed, all bookable through Booking.com, all on the edge of the city or just beyond it. In Spandau (Staaken) the two detached Hygge Tiny Houses have two bedrooms each and sleep up to four, about 15 km from the Kurfürstendamm; an 18 m² house for two guests stands on Rodensteinstraße. At Rahnsdorf on the Müggelsee is the Feine Laube, a garden cabin of 41 m², renovated in 2016, with about 200 m² of garden under pines, for up to three guests. Beyond the city limit come the Tinyhaus Woltersdorf (37 m², 100 m from tram 87) and the Tiny House in Burig (20 m², up to four guests), and to the south, in Teltow, the Bungalow Teltow Seehof (43 m², two guests).

A night costs roughly €95 to €175 depending on the house and the date, and most fall between €110 and €150. The choice is thin. There is more in the surrounding countryside: in Oberhavel (Tiny House Resort Schmachtenhagen near Oranienburg), in the Spreewald (about 100 km), in the Uckermark (about 1.5 hours) and in the Mecklenburg Lake District (about 2 hours).