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The study deals with two places intended for education and meeting of Germans forcibly displaced from Sudetenland and Silesia, meaning the houses Heiligenhof in Bad Kissingen and Haus Schlesien (Silesia House) in Königswinter. Both houses are important components in the wide field of the culture of remembrance of the past of Germans and German minorities in Eastern Europe, as well as of the flight and forcible displacement. Although the houses were established by two groups of those forcibly displaced for their own needs, their influence extends beyond their borders – not only due to their reminding and remembering nature, but mostly due to their tourist character, because today anyone can spent holiday there. The study investigates how both houses present themselves as tourist destinations towards various target groups – those forcibly displaced, the Polish and Czech visitors, as well as uninvolved travellers. The capturing of actors’ tourist practices (mainly the present treatment of the past), as these were observed during the field research, shows that both houses can be interpreted as contact zones formed both by consensus and by conflict. For this reason, they are able to provide (inter-cultural) mediation through their tourist function. Because likewise travels made by those forcibly displaced to their old homeland in Eastern Europe, which drew ethnologists´ attention several years ago, these houses are, from the perspective of tourism, an impulse to thematisethe homeland / fatherland (Heimat – homeland) and affiliation.