Lonely Planet Munich, Bavaria & the Black Forest

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• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781786573773
• eBook ISBN: 9781788685412

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Stuttgart & the Black Forest

Stuttgart

Ludwigsburg

Swabian Alps Region

Tübingen

Burg Hohenzollern

Schwäbisch Hall

Ulm

The Black Forest

Baden-Baden

Karlsruhe

Freudenstadt

Kinzigtal

Freiburg

Schauinsland

St Peter

Breisach

Feldberg

Titisee-Neustadt

Schluchsee

Triberg

Martinskapelle

Villingen-Schwenningen

Rottweil

Unterkirnach

Lake Constance

Konstanz

Meersburg

Friedrichshafen

Ravensburg

Lindau

Stuttgart & the Black Forest

Pop 12.6 million

Why Go?

If one word could sum up Germany’s southwesternmost region, it would be ‘inventive’. Baden-Württemberg gave the world relativity (Einstein), DNA (Miescher) and the astronomical telescope (Kepler). It was here that Bosch invented the spark plug; Gottlieb Daimler the gas engine; and Count Ferdinand the zeppelin. And where would we be without Black Forest gateau, cuckoo clocks and the ultimate beer food, the pretzel?

Beyond the high-tech urban pleasures of 21st-century Stuttgart lies a region still ripe for discovery. On the city fringes, country lanes roll into vineyards and lordly baroque palaces, spa towns and castles steeped in medieval myth. Swinging south, the Black Forest (Schwarzwald in German) looks every inch the Grimms’ fairy-tale blueprint. Wooded hills rise sharply above church steeples, looming over half-timbered villages and a crochet of tightly woven valleys. It is a perfectly etched picture of sylvan beauty, a landscape refreshingly oblivious to time and trends.

When to Go

Snow dusts the heights from January to late February, attracting downhill and cross-country skiers to the higher peaks in the Black Forest. In late February, around Shrove Tuesday, pre-Lenten Fasnacht parades bring carnival shenanigans and elaborate costumed characters to the region’s towns and villages.

Enjoy cool forest hikes, riverside bike rides, splashy fun on lakes Constance and Titisee, lazy afternoons in beer gardens and open-air festivals galore during summer.

From late September to October the golden autumn days can be spent rambling in woods, mus...

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Welcome to Munich, Bavaria & the Black Forest
• Munich, Bavaria & the Black Forest Map
• Munich, Bavaria & the Black Forest’s Top 10
• Need to Know
• First Time Munich, Bavaria & the Black Forest
• What’s New
• If You Like...
• Month by Month
• Itineraries
• Oktoberfest
• Activities
• Travel with Children
• Regions at a Glance
• Munich
• A Historical Journey
• Bavaria
• Romantic Residences
• Salzburg & Around
• Stuttgart & The Black Forest
• Dramatic Landscapes
• Munich, Bavaria & the Black Forest Today
• History
• People & Culture
• Food & Drink
• Landscapes & Wildlife
• Directory A–Z
• Transport
• Language
• Behind the Scenes
• Our Writers