Schöne Orte

Have you ever wondered where all the beautiful spots are in germany? Just search for all places that begin with “Schön” in the German-speaking countries. Gems appear on the map that no one had in mind (e.g. Schöneberg from the header image). On the map below, can click on the markers, zoom and out, and discover all the sightseeing-worth corners:

One can conclude: It seems obvious, that a tourist clearly should avoid the north-west of Germany and concentrate on regions close to te Czech border.

What shouldn’t be suprising or shocking is that even South America likes their villages to be pretty:

Why

When driving along the more or less pretty countryside northern of Berlin, we discovered many places like “Schönerlinde” and “Schönwalde” right after each other. Then there is also the Berlin district “Schöneberg”, where many people were wondering where the pretty mountain is (again: check out the header image).

How-To

Just use a simple Overpass API Request:

[out:json][timeout:250];
// gather results

node["name"~"^Schön.*"]["place"~"city|village|town|suburbs"];

// print results
out body;

It queries all cities, villages, etc. that start with Schön- by using Regular Expression (regex), which is the ^Schön.*.

More

What is missing due to the scope of the regular expression ^Schön.*, are sites like “Groß-Schönebeck”. A future adaption could correlate these innovative information with actual ratings of tripadvisor, even though is is expected that smaller villages might have been forgotten by sensation-seeking tourists. Yet…