Hambachtal Holiday Park: Bankruptcy shock hits 86 employees!

Hambachtal Holiday Park: Bankruptcy shock hits 86 employees!

The Hambachtal holiday park in Oberhambach, Rhineland-Palatinate, filed for bankruptcy on August 28, 2025. HFH Betriebsgesellschaft GmbH & Co. KG, which operates the holiday park, is faced with significant financial challenges, including the consequences of the corona pandemic, high energy costs and declining income. There are currently 218 holiday homes and 48 apartments with a total of 1,250 beds available, but the park also has a significant investment backlog that is becoming noticeable after four decades, particularly in the areas of sanitary facilities, the swimming pool and the sauna. According to Merkur, the 86 employees were informed about the situation on August 29th.

Annemarie Dhonau from the Schiebe und Collegen law firm is now acting as provisional insolvency administrator. She has signaled that the holiday park will continue to operate fully and is optimistic about the process of finding investors. Initial discussions with potential investors have already begun. “We have to act quickly because a solution has to be found in three months to secure the future of the park,” said Dhonau, according to Tagesschau.

The park as an economic factor

The Hambachtal holiday park was once considered a tourist beacon for the Hunsrück. It attracted numerous holidaymakers every year and offered a variety of leisure options, including an aqua park, a mini golf course and a bowling alley. But in recent years demand has fallen sharply and two thirds of the bungalows are now empty. The local politicians, including District Administrator Miroslaw Kowalski and Mayor Matthias König, expressed surprise at this development and are well aware of the importance of the holiday park for the region.

“The park has benefited from federal and state funding in the past, including Corona aid, some of which has to be repaid,” explains a representative of the district administration. This will support the insolvency administrator in finding an investor, but cannot provide any financial resources. The most important aspect now remains to get all the players involved at the table: the new investors, the old operators, the owners of the bungalows and the employees who fear for their jobs.

The next steps

As T-Online reports, the insolvency administrator will first carry out a comprehensive inventory of the park's economic situation. The challenge will be to find a viable solution that focuses on both maintaining jobs and revitalizing the holiday park. “The need for tourism offerings is still there, we just have to take the right steps,” Dhonau is certain.

The coming weeks will be crucial for the future of the Hambachtal holiday park. It remains to be seen whether we will be able to find an investor to save the facility and make it attractive again. One thing is certain, however: many people in the region are keeping their fingers crossed for a positive turnaround in this unfortunate situation.