Description
This is the map you hand someone who says, “I’m going to Germany, but I’m really going to eat my way through Germany.” Leo Faller’s Deutsche Bundesbahn culinary map is part rail itinerary, part gastronomic treasure hunt—a brilliant idea to get people on trains by promising them wurst, beer, pumpernickel, lachs, bratwurst, cheese, pretzels, and regional breads they can’t get anywhere else. It’s food marketing disguised as travel promotion, and it works because it’s genuinely useful and genuinely beautiful.
The map spans Germany, region by region, with each city and area marked by its signature food or wine. Want to know where the best bread comes from? Where to find authentic spätzel? This poster tells you. It’s like having a grandmother who knows every city’s secret in her kitchen. There’s something deeply appealing about that kind of specificity—this isn’t generic tourism, it’s a culinary pilgrimage with railway schedules.
Faller drew this at exactly the right moment: 1950, post-war, when Germany was rebuilding, and travel was starting to feel possible again. There’s optimism baked into it—the idea that abundance and pleasure were returnable, that you could move through the country and taste your way toward understanding it. The design is clean and inviting, the colors warm, the typography confident. Linen-backed and barely touched by time, it still looks like an invitation you’d actually want to accept.
For food historians, travel collectors, design lovers, or anyone who believes eating is the best way to see a country—this is the map you frame and stare at while planning your next trip.
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