FKK Palast Freiburg (D)

After a long preparation phase, FKK 66 boss Berthold "Bobby" Lorenz opened the FKK Palast in October 2011 amid huge media attention, in Freiburg's Tullastraße, on the former stomping ground of Club 79. The magnificent building has set new standards in the region and is a popular destination especially for guests from Switzerland and France. Caught between undeniably devoted, artistically fussy craftsman's attention to detail and overblown opulence, the FKK Palast offers the speechless guest a flair that, in such over-the-top intensity and colossal mix of styles, cannot be found in any other sauna club. Right at the entrance you're eyed grimly by a life-size gorilla figure, easing you into the proper, respectful mode needed to duly appreciate the palazzo grande of cross-vaults and facades, Indian temple and Roman bathhouse, gold-leaf-clad ceilings, glowing wall paintings and unique themed rooms with their frivolous accessories. In the process, it's almost forgotten that the FKK Palast is an exemplary wellness establishment, complete with a beautiful, palm-lined outdoor area where you can also dine well, but above all it's a first-class brothel that, thanks to its combined heat and power plant, rainwater use, facade insulation and heat recovery, also calls itself Germany's greenest brothel. After the club was closed for a longer period during the corona crisis, it reopened under new management in 2000.