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Trips in the near area
(about max. 50 km distance, less than a one-hour-drive)

TRIBERG:

highest waterfall in Germany in the middle of the town www.forestfun.de offers the opportunity to climb high up in the trees and thereby watch the waterfall many amazing clock-shops “Black-Forest-Museum” with a model of the impressing Black-Forest-Railway one of the “world´s greatest cuckoo-clocks”

SCHONACH:

• the other “world´s greatest cuckoo-clock” where you can really walk inside
• watch the  modellor of nativity scenes

FURTWANGEN:

Museum of Black-Forest-Clocks with Black Forest clocks from the 17th century to the present and automatons Source of the river “Danube” "The Balzer Herrgott" carved in a tree as you can see

VILLINGEN:

• marvellous medieval city (“Zähringer-Stadt”)
• nice for shopping
• impressing cathedral (“Münster”)

DONAUESCHINGEN:

• castle (part of it still inhabited by a prince and his family)
• source of the Danube

GUTACH:

Famous Open-air-museum of about 15 original old farm-houses with their ancient interior

GENGENBACH:

• marvellous old town
• vineyard-area; different sorts of wine could be tasted
• take the train from Triberg to it

WOLFACH :

• “Dorotheenhütte” - there is shown how glass is made by hand and you can try it by yourself,  nice restaurant next to it.

SCHILTACH:

Nice, old town  with good shopping opportunities for leather garment

HASLACH:

• Nice, old town with museum for traditional Black Forest garment ("Trachtenmuseum")

TITISEE:

• one of the most visited lakes in Black Forest, you can swim in it or take a boat. It is near the

ST. PETER ST. MÄRGEN three old and impressing abbeys ST. BLASIEN

FREIBURG:

• the “Capital” of Black Forest; very nice old inner city
• marvellous cathedral
• university

NATURE PRESERVES: Feldberg (the highest mountain of Black Forest (about 1500 m), take a lift and  hike to a typical neat little restaurant within an hour. Interesting museum. Mountain top, lake and flora are remnants from the last Ice Age Wutachschlucht with special plants and birds high moor "Blindensee" at Schonach

Our farms and the local tourist information centers will advise you.  
They will also help you with free leaflets (some in English).

This is what guests wrote about some of their trips:

 

House of 1000 Clocks, Triberg: The Weisser family have been working around the clock for 5 generations. We made several visits to our favourite shop and were made to feel like old friends from the beginning. There were over 200 clocks to choose from. We decided to buy our own individual clock. So we chose all the components, the wood cabinet, face, weights, pendulum etc. It now hangs proudly on our lounge wall, cuckooing the hour, playing different tunes and on the hour, ...

Railway trip from St. Georgen to Gengenbach:
What a great sightseeing trip! 63 km through 37 short tunnels with a total descent of 634 meters. This track is an amazing feat of engineering as it winds and twists back on itself down and often through the mountains. every time we emgerged from a tunnel we viewed even more picturesque scenes of houses nestling in small tree-covered valleys.

Gengenbach: it is difficult to believe that this wonderful old town is real, with its impressively maintained houses with courtyards festooned with flowers and grapevines.  Gateways and towers  of the old medieval wall and beautiful timber framed houses are under official preservation order. And they are no museum, they are inhabited.

Winter 2007