View of Ulmen, Ulmen Castle, and Ulmener Maar

This Eifel town is also on my very personal list of travel destinations for a literary tour, because - what probably very few people know: there, on the Ulmener Maar, a Sherlock Holmes novel is set! Granted, not an original penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; But the author Franziska Franke (among other things a member of the "Murderous Sisters") let the ingenious master detective survive his fatal fall at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland (in a duel with Professor Moriarty). Now he has taken on the pseudonym Sven Sigerson and of course continues to solve criminal cases (in the role of a Norwegian explorer), including in the book "Sherlock Holmes and the Elm Monster", which tells the old legend of a giant fish living there in the maar. kite (whatever) picks up.

Nice terrace on the mountain above the Ulmener Maar. There are some seating groups there, you can come there in the evening, have a picnic and have a wonderful view of elms and the castle.

Here you can sunbathe in summer! Very nice, clean area with tables, bar tables and benches and a view over the maar to the castle and elms