Urban beach

City beaches (also beach clubs or City Beaches called ) are a current trend in the restaurant landscape of cities. They provide an opportunity to rest in the city, by copying beaches by the sea and empathize with the atmosphere at the lake or beach life. This is based on mounds of sand, deck chairs, palm trees, raffia, beach chairs and other beach typical accessories.

Models for these urban trend are actual city beaches by the sea as the Copacabana in Rio, the central beach of San Sebastian or the beach town of Stralsund.

The location of the newly created city beaches in close proximity to water (usually a more or less large river or lake ) helps produce the illusion of a stay at a real beach. Partly also typical beach sports such as beach volleyball, bowling, beach aerobics. Partial serve the town beaches as the " Beach Club" and are to enter only after payment of an entrance fee. Some city beaches offer swimming, for others this is due to bathing prohibitions prohibited, for example, in port areas.

Cities have experimented in earlier times with temporary Sandaufschüttungen. But in Paris was created in 2002 with the project Paris -Plage, the first urban beach after the now popular concept for the summer months even a busy city highway on the Seine was blocked. Quick copied private providers of other cities this idea with success. Urban beaches or " City Beaches " followed in Berlin, Munich, Nuremberg, Braunschweig, Offenbach am Main, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Frankfurt, Cologne, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Saarbrücken, Plauen or in smaller cities like Würzburg, Heilbronn, Landshut, Oldenburg, Osnabrück and Koblenz.