Tatort Münster: Thiel and Boerne Locations

In the story, Frank Thiel is new to the Münster police and rents a flat in the house of Professor Karl-Friedrich Boerne, the forensic doctor he will work with. The house is not in Münster at all. For the first episode, Der dunkle Fleck, an apartment building on Leipziger Platz in Cologne-Nippes was used as their shared home. Filming mostly takes place in and around Cologne for cost reasons.

Precisión del lugar: The source names the square, not the individual building; the pin marks Leipziger Platz in Nippes.

The first case opens with a body in a bog. The scenes where the bog body is discovered were shot at the Venner Moor near Senden, about 15 km south-west of Münster. Der dunkle Fleck was first broadcast on 20 October 2002. The moor is a protected nature reserve, so check local rules before leaving the paths.

Precisión del lugar: The source names the moor, not the exact spot where the scene was shot; the pin marks the moor itself.

The Alsfeld family has a country seat in the first episode, and the exterior shots were filmed at Schloss Harkotten near Sassenberg, about 30 km east of Münster. Harkotten is a rare double castle complex. The castle is privately used and usually closed to the public, so view it from outside.

Precisión del lugar: The source names the castle as the film location for the Alsfeld estate; the pin marks the castle, not a particular scene.

In the 2004 episode Mörderspiele, a woman's torso is found in the Aasee, followed soon after by a parcel with her limbs. Boerne, Silke Haller and prosecutor Wilhelmine Klemm at once think of the Rohrbach murder of the 1950s, a real case that began with a torso found in the same lake in 1957. The episode was first shown on 25 April 2004. Today the Aasee is Münster's inner-city recreation area.

Para el visitante: The lake and its meadows are open to walk around.

The 33rd case for Thiel and Boerne, Schlangengrube, premiered on 27 May 2018. This time Thiel goes undercover as an animal keeper, and the whole story is set in the zoo, so the investigation plays out among the enclosures and the keepers he works alongside. The Allwetterzoo is a park-like zoological garden in Münster that visitors can still walk through today.

Para el visitante: A working zoo; check opening times before you go.