Ist das in Deutschland normal? Wenn ich diesen Ort mieten würde, könnte ich gleichzeitig duschen und kochen? Natürlich werde ich das Lüften noch mehr üben, aber es ist komisch, in der Küche zu duschen. Ich habe das von einem anderen Studenten gefunden, der nach seinem Auszug seine Wohnung zur Miete ausgeschrieben hat.
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Von Willstdusheide23
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It is not common.
In old buildings they installed just one water connection per apartment.
I would say this is not normal. But when my husband was in uni he had a kitchen where the toilet was in what looked like a pantry. No real door, it was fucking disgusting lol.
Yes it is, after eating it is very important to shower and some people put the shower in the kitchen so you can also do the dishes while you are at it which is greatly practical
It is definitely not common. However, I would suspect that there’s not been a proper bathroom in the appartement for whatever reason (it used to be a bigger appartement, the building is so big that it simply did not have it for all appartements, some other reason) and therefore, the shower needed to be retrofitted somewhere where you can make the floor wet and where there is a connection to the water pipes, thus, the kitchen.
As you do not provide any more information, this is all I personaly could come up with. Is it a one-room appartement with only a toilet or something?
Efficiency?
Not normal. Pretty weird. But i guess this is what you get from difficult housing market.
>Is ThIs NoRmAl In GeRmAnY?
No, it’s not.
You are looking for an apartment to rent. How many have you seen where the shower is located in the kitchen?
It’s pretty common in older apartments. Often with a washing machine in the kitchen. It’s cheaper to build if all the water pipes are in one room. I believe the toilet or bathroom would right next to the kitchen?
Where is the toilet, on the balcony?
It’s something in some older buildings that retrofitted the shower. Never saw it in germany though, relatively common in Vienna, Austria.
Within walking distance.
Many pre WW1 rentals, especially in working class neighborhoods originally only had shared bathrooms and large kitchens with no separate living room (used to be an indicator of burgior apartments).
This is a retrofit solution to this kind of apartment. Rare but you come across them from time to time, especially in Leipzig as I was told.
Is it Hannover? A lot of houses had water only in the kitchen and outside if the apartement on the way down halfway to the next apartments („auf halber Höhe“, where the toilets were in the past.
So they built the shower in the kitchen.
The „is this normal in Germany“ never seize to amaze me.
People post here about the most peculiar situations and go „Is ThIs NoRmAl“.
I suspect it’s an older house that was efficiently (cost wise) updated. There are older homes where bathing was in the kitchen because that’s where the stove (heat and hot water) and water generally were. My great grandmother‘s apartment was like this.
As far as I know, this is called a „Frankfurter Bad“. Have seen some when hunting for a new place to live. The thought of it creeps me out.
You wanted Zimmer, Küche, Bad but you got KüchenBadZimmer
Nein nicht normal
as someone who grew up here and lived here my whole life: wtf
Efficient af though, can never fault the Germans on that
That is what is called Frankfurter Bad (even with Bathtubs( not so common these days.
Frankfurter Bad is a common feature of early 20th century
Yes and we shit in the sink to save money and be eco friendly.
Looks like a spacious 4000usd/month apartment in NYC
I knew a guy who had one of those. Altbau building, very small apartments, obviously one apartment per floor which were then divided into two each. One tiny toilet and then the shower in the kitchen. I think that’s terrible n
Well it’s not super unusual, but it’s definitely not the norm. That’s a so-called [Frankfurter Bad](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurter_Bad) present in some buildings from the late 19th/early 20th century, mostly in and around Frankfurt (unsurprisingly) and Berlin. In most cases, there’s still a wall between the kitchen and bathroom area, though
Why is there a kitchen in the bathroom?
When adding a shower after the fact, putting it in the kichen is easiest: Water and wastewater lines are already there, and the room is (hopefully) already equipped to deal with humidity and splashing. Putting it in a bedroom instead would have at the very least required a lot of extra plumbing.
As for why the apartment doesn’t have a bathroom, the „natural“ place for a shower, this is probably due to the its nature as a cheap(-ish), small apartment. A dedicated bathroom takes up valuable space. By not including one in the floor plan, you can squeeze out more apartments out of the same floor size or convert leftover, otherwise unprofitable spaces (parts of a formerly larger apartment, former storage areas, …) into one more apartment you can earn rent from. It might also be just a very old floor plan. Showers have only really been a thing in Germany since after WW2. In earlier times, people used a bowl of hot water and a washcloth for their daily routine, and would take a bath only once a week, often in a public bathhouse or in a portable tub that was also used for laundry.
Tja, 1-Zimmerwohnung bedeutet 1-Zimmerwohnung /s
Altbau. In many old appartments the kitchens are really spacious. They also habve already water etc installed. To renovate the flat and install a proper bathroom is more expensive than just to install one of these showers you can put everywhere where there is water, sewer system and power. The are like self-sufficient devices that technically can stand everywhere. You can operate them like a washing machine.
This is the new trend of green flats, you wash your veggies and fruits whilst in the shower to save some water. Ah no, when I think about it, it might be the trend of building without an architect that happened a lot in Soviet areas
Old Appartements still have this sometimes.
Best thing is. Start the coffee machine, take a shower and when you are done, coffee is ready.
No, it is not normal, but I found 2 or 3 of those before while looking for flats. It is called a „Frankfurter Bad“ (frankfurt bathroom), and it was „modern“ 150years ago, because it was easier to install with heating and water access, than to separate it from the kitchen. Those showers were often installed in nieches connected to the kitchen with a curtain or a light sliding door.
Note that the toilet was normally installed elsewhere, or at least connected to the kitchen by a real door, for hygiene purposes I assume.
To this day you can find a lot of predominantlly older flats with this, or a similar, configuration. It has obviously fallen off in popularity, as laying water and heating has gotten far easier and more normal when compared to 150 years ago. I don’t think I ever saw a Frankfurter Bad in anything built after the war. It probably exists, but I assume it would be even rarer than in the older buildings.
You can also mainly find this in big cities and multi story buildings, as plumbing for single family homes and in the countryside has a different history and technical necessities.
So you can take a bath atthe same time you wash the dishes, saves water and time 👌
Very uncommon.
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It’s for socialising so that you can cook and still talk to your visitors/roommate/SO (while) having a shower. Why have more rooms when you can be efficient and safe space?
obvious /s
As others have already said, it’s because of the water pipes. But I do wonder where the toilet is
In older buildings (150+ years old), there were no bathrooms in the apartments. The toilets were located halfway up the stairs in the stairwell, and there was a washhouse or wash room for the entire building. Later, toilets and showers were added to the apartments. To do this, the kitchen was usually divided in half, since that’s where the water connections and drain pipes were located. Often, there is only a small, interior toilet separated from the kitchen, and the shower is located in the kitchen.