Germany
Lost a ring in Germany?
The Nizza's red sandstone quay wall, the Untermainbrücke and the Eiserner Steg all stand along this bank, and each one helps fix where you sat.
An earring dropped on the lawns beside the Main can be looked for with a metal detector, like most things lost in a German park or on a beach. Your memory of the afternoon decides the rest: once you can say where you sat and where you moved on to, the ground to cover comes down to a patch of grass.
Ring Seekers is a lost ring and jewellery recovery service that works with experienced local metal detectorists to search for a ring, wedding band, watch, keys or phone lost in Germany. Tell us what happened and where. We choose an experienced detectorist who knows the park or the beach, brief them with your map and photos, and tell you honestly if the odds are poor.
The North Sea coast and the Baltic coasts of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern have area pages of their own, in the list further down. What follows here is inland: parks in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich and Cologne, and gardens at home.
Grass by the river, lakes in the parks
Frankfurt's ground is mostly riverbank lawn beside the Main. Hamburg's Stadtpark and Munich's Westpark are built round lakes, Berlin has its sand beach on the Wannsee, and Cologne's Rheinpark runs down to a pebble beach on the Rhine.
How we deal with your case
No handover between desks
Ring Seekers is one person on WhatsApp, not a department. The questions you are asked, the brief the detectorist reads and the report afterwards all come from that same chat.
Landmarks, not addresses
A park has no house numbers, so we ask what you could see from where you were, and the detectorist gets that answer along with your photos.
Said early, not late
When the details you send point to poor odds, we tell you what stands in the way before you decide anything.
Costs before any date
We explain the costs before any search is booked. Until then, nothing has been arranged in your name.
Our Ring Finder Service Locations in Germany
Where each part of Germany is dealt with
The first three cards sum up the coast pages. The inland parks follow, Frankfurt first, then Hamburg, Berlin and Munich, and a card for gardens at home closes the set.
Sylt to Usedom, then Frankfurt to Munich
North Sea coast
Westerland's beach, Strandkörbe and promenade on Sylt, and in Büsum the Grünstrand, the Watt'n Insel and the mudflats. The beaches of Sankt Peter-Ording, Duhnen, Döse and Norderney, and the mudflat walks out towards Neuwerk.
Baltic coast, Schleswig-Holstein
Scharbeutz, Haffkrug, Timmendorfer Strand, Niendorf and the Brodtener Steilufer, Travemünde and the Priwall, Grömitz, then Weißenhäuser Strand, Fehmarn from Burgtiefe to the Grüner Brink, Eckernförde and Damp.
Baltic coast, Mecklenburg
Warnemünde out to the Stoltera, Kühlungsborn, Heiligendamm, Binz on Rügen from the Granitz to the Schmale Heide, Heringsdorf and Bansin on Usedom, and the long beach at Zingst.
The northern Mainufer, Frankfurt
Near the Westhafen Tower the northern bank of the Main begins, a path along the water with old trees over broad lawns. Just before the Untermainbrücke lies the Nizza, a park of palms and fig trees below a red sandstone quay wall, and behind the bridge is a playground for small children. Towards the Eiserner Steg the promenade narrows beside the old harbour railway tracks, then opens into lawns again.
Bethmannpark, Frankfurt
Walls, fences and rhododendrons screen the Bethmannpark from the Friedberger Landstraße and the Anlagenring. People lie out on its lawns under old trees, or play chess in the open air. Behind white walls lies the Chinese Garden, with pavilions and bridges over a pond of water lilies.
Stadtpark and the Stadtparksee, Hamburg
The big lawn at the heart of the Stadtpark in Winterhude is the Festwiese, and in summer the Stadtpark concerts are held on the open-air stage. The Stadtparksee has paddle boards, canoes and pedalos.
Volkspark Friedrichshain, Berlin
Berlin's oldest public park lies where Prenzlauer Berg meets Friedrichshain. A long meadow winds round Mont Klamott and the Kleiner Bunkerberg, both heaped from wartime rubble, and past the swan pond, and the Märchenbrunnen, a fountain of fairy-tale figures, stands at the western entrance.
Westpark, Munich
The Westpark in Sendling-Westpark was built with artificial hills and valleys and two large lakes, the West Lake and the East Lake, and the Mittlerer Ring splits it in two. The Seebühne, a stage of natural stone by the lake, puts on open-air cinema, and people play football on the wide meadows.
Grüneburgpark, Ostpark and Hafenpark, Frankfurt
The Grüneburgpark in the Westend has wide meadows under very old trees, with the Korean Garden on its east side. The Ostpark has broad lawns, football and basketball pitches and a large barbecue area around its pond. The Hafenpark, below the European Central Bank on the Main, has a skate and BMX park.
Wannsee, the Englischer Garten, the Isar and the Rheinpark
Strandbad Wannsee in Berlin has a sand beach about a kilometre long, with Strandkörbe. In Munich people lie out on the lawns of the Englischer Garten near the Chinese Tower, and on the Isar's gravel banks around the Flaucher. Cologne's Rheinpark in Deutz, between the Tanzbrunnen and the Zoobrücke, has large lawns and a pebble beach on the Rhine.
A garden or Kleingarten of your own
In a back garden or on an allotment plot, a ring can come off with a gardening glove, so say where the gloves were pulled off as well as which bed you were working in.
Places we cover in Germany
- Westerland, Sylt
- Sankt Peter-Ording
- Büsum
- Duhnen and Döse, Cuxhaven
- Norderney
- Scharbeutz and Haffkrug
- Timmendorfer Strand
- Travemünde
- Grömitz
- Niendorf and the Brodtener Steilufer
- The Priwall, Travemünde
- Weißenhäuser Strand
- Fehmarn, from Burgtiefe to the Grüner Brink
- Eckernförde
- Damp
- Warnemünde
- Kühlungsborn
- Heiligendamm
- Binz, Rügen
- Heringsdorf, Usedom
- Zingst
- Frankfurt am Main
- The northern Mainufer and the Nizza, Frankfurt
- Bethmannpark, Frankfurt
- Stadtpark and the Stadtparksee, Hamburg
- Volkspark Friedrichshain, Berlin
- Westpark, Munich
- Grüneburgpark, Ostpark and Hafenpark, Frankfurt
- Strandbad Wannsee, Berlin
- The Englischer Garten and the Isar, Munich
- Rheinpark, Cologne
Missed after a day on the grass or by the water
Jewellery you had on
- Wedding rings and engagement rings
- One earring of a pair
- Signet rings
- Bracelets and bangles
- A fine chain and the pendant on it
Carried, clipped or strapped on
- Smartwatches and fitness watches
- An Oura ring
- Phones
- House keys and car keys
- Glasses and sunglasses with metal frames
Last worn in the parks
- Lying on the lawns beside the Nizza
- A swim at Strandbad Wannsee
- A paddle on the Stadtparksee
- The climb up Mont Klamott
- A lie-down on the Isar's gravel banks
- Weeding a bed in the garden
From your first message to search day
You take the first two steps, and we take the rest.
Which city, which park
Open a WhatsApp chat with us and write down the item and the place: Frankfurt and the Nizza, say, or a garden at home.
A pin, and a photo from where you stood
Drop the pin where you think it went, then photograph the view from that spot with a bridge, a fountain or the edge of a lake in the frame.
Your notes become the brief
Once a metal detectorist who can reach the park or garden agrees to go, they receive your pins, photos and times before the day.
The go-ahead is yours
The search happens only after you agree to it. Afterwards you learn which parts of the park or garden were worked through, and what was found there.
Questions about Germany
I lost an earring on the grass by the Nizza in Frankfurt. Does it matter which side of the Untermainbrücke we sat?
Yes. On one side the Nizza lies under its red sandstone quay wall, with lawns stretching back towards the Westhafen Tower; on the other, just behind the bridge, is the playground for small children. Pin the patch of grass where you sat, and photograph it with the bridge or the quay wall in view.
Our house keys fell out of a jacket pocket somewhere by the old harbour railway tracks on the Mainufer.
That is the stretch towards the Eiserner Steg where the promenade narrows and shares its room with the rails. Tell us whether you kept to the track side or the river side, and where the walk began and ended. Keys that dropped over the edge into the Main are a long shot, and you would hear that from us first.
Can you search the Bethmannpark for a bracelet if we went to both the open-air chess and the Chinese Garden?
Yes, and it helps to treat them as two places. The open-air chess is out in the park itself, while the Chinese Garden lies behind its own white walls, with bridges over the pond. Say which of the two came first and whether you crossed one of the bridges, then send a photo showing the clasp.
My Oura ring was gone after a paddle on the Stadtparksee in Hamburg, and I had been in and out of the water.
Tell us whether you were on a paddle board, in a canoe or on a pedalo, where you got on and off, and whether you went into the water. If you were back on the park's lawns before you noticed, pin your towel as well.
My engagement ring went on a concert evening in the Stadtpark, and we had sat on the Festwiese beforehand.
We need a pin for each: your spot on the big lawn and your place at the open-air stage. The Planetarium stands at the north-western end of the park's long axis, and a photo from where you sat with it in view shows the detectorist the angle.
My watch was on when we started up Mont Klamott in Volkspark Friedrichshain and gone by the top.
The park has two of these rubble hills, Mont Klamott and the Kleiner Bunkerberg, so check which one you climbed, and say whether you sat at the top. Pin any stop on the way back down, on the meadow, at the swan pond or at the Märchenbrunnen.
A chain came off in Munich's Westpark, and we had crossed from one half of the park to the other.
Start with the side of the Mittlerer Ring it more likely went on, since the road splits the park in two, and the West Lake and the East Lake help you place yourself. Tell us if you sat on the stone seats of the Seebühne or played on the meadows, and pin each stop.
Germany
A park name and a pin will do
Send us the item on WhatsApp with a map pin in the park, garden or beach where it was last on you. Questions about landmarks and times come later, from our side.