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Short Guide for Outings

Tuningen is a great base with an extensive range of outings and activities in a radius of 15 to 60 minutes car drive enabling you to appreciate the diversity of the Baar, the Black Forest, the Lake of Constance, the Swabian Alb, the valley of the Danube, and far more (travel time given in car minutes):

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Local Markets

There are very nice local markets:

  • Tuttlingen (25 min) on Mondays and Fridays (recommended) in the center of town until 12 noon.

  • Bad Dürrheim (15 min) on Fridays until 12 noon.

  • Trossingen (15 min) on Thursdays until 12 noon.

  • Schwenningen (10 min) on Wednesdays and Saturdays until 12 noon.

  • Europe’s No 1 Outlet-Centre, Metzingen (60 min)

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Sessional Fairs and Festivals

Keep an eye out or ask your locals hosts for sessional fairs and festivals:

  • Pfingstmarkt (Whitsun/Pentecost), Trossingen

  • Kilbemarkt (4th weekend in September), Trossingen

  • Kirbe – Neuhausen on Eck museum festival (usually first weekend in October), Neuhausen ob Eck Freilichtmuseum. Recommended.

  • Southside Festival (usually late June), Neuhausen ob Eck. One of the biggest rock festivals in Germany with over 60.000 visitors.

  • Fasching is a big thing in this area. It is a kind of carnival 40 days before Easter (usually in late February) staring the time of fasting reaching back to Celtic rites driving out the end of the winter with very unusual masks and costumes. There are parades in many towns, particularly Villingen. Check with your local hosts or the local tourist offices for dates and events.

Villingen

Towns worth visiting

  • Rottweil (20 min) historic town. Oldest town in Baden-Württemberg.

  • Villingen (20 min) historic town. Guided city tour, several museums.

  • Freiburg (90 min) – scenic historical university city. Take the scenic route through the Black Forest over St. Märgen

  • Contance (Konstanz, 45 min) on the lake. Great fish eatery on the way there: Bei Riebels (located on the island of Reichenau) . Consider returning from Constance via the car ferry. and having a bite to eat at the Fischhaus am Fährhafen. Constance has a Sealife.

  • Zurich in Switzerland (90 min)

  • Schaffhausen and Rheinfall (45 min)

  • Stein am Rhein (45 min)

Neuhausen Ob Eck Freilichtmuseum

Museums, Attractions and Historic Sites

Historic...

Sauschwänzlebahn

Science & Technology...

Personalities...

  • Albert Schweitzer Haus, Königsfeld (25 min) – history of the Nobel Peace Laureate, Philosopher, Doctor, Musician

Musical...

  • Harmonica Museum, Trossingen (10 min) – the source of the famous mouth organs and squeeze boxes

Kolbinger Höhle

Nature...

  • Kurpark Bad Dürrheim (10 min)

  • Schwenninger Moos (12 min) - A nature reserve with the source of the Neckar that flows to the Rhein entering the North Sea.

  • Wildgehege Natzental (13 min, Schwenningen) - game reserve with wild boars, baby hogs, deer. Nice walk through the woods also for smaller kids. 

  • Source of the Danube (15 min, Donaueschingen) - Europe's longest river. It flows 2857 km all the way to the to the Black Sea. The Fürst of Fürstenberg declared the source of the Danube as the spring in the park of his Palace of Fürstenberg in Donaueschingen (15 min). However, the geographical source is in the middle of the Back Forest, a 45 minutes scenic drive.

  • Scenic walk along the edge of Swabian Alb from Klippeneck  to a nice local restaurant Gaststätte Dreifaltigkeitssberg (recommended)

  • Kolbinger Höhle (20 min, direction Tuttlingen) - extensive stalactite caves

  • Valley of the Danube (Donautal, 20 min, direction Tuttlingen) excellent hiking, cycling, kayak and bouldering and abseiling (on the Danube stretch between Tuttlingen and Sigmaringen). Do not miss the Benedictine Archabbey in Beuron​ as a pilgrimage destination!

  • Lochmühle (30 min, direction Lake of Constance – animals and attractions)

  • Wild- und Freizeitpark Allensbach (40 min, at Lake of Constance – animals and attractions good for younger children. Can be combined with a visit to Constance)

  • Wutachschlucht (40 min, middle of Black Forrest) – scenic gorge of the Wutach in the Black Forrest for hiking

  • Mainau (45 min – extensive Botanical Gardens as an island on the Lake of Constance)

  • Triberg, Black Forest (45 min) – Germany’s highest waterfalls

  • Schwarzwald Tourenplaner: Black Forrest Online Hiking Trail and Cycling planner

 

Activities

 

Hiking

There are several marked hiking trails with blue markings following a historic trail from the Celtic over Roman and Alemannic history of Tuningen with explanatory boards of the historical sites.

Further nice hikes are towards Mühlhausen to a little biotope (90 min circular route)

and Sunthausen Lake with a circular route.

The "Wanderfreunde Baar 1980 Tuningen" offer guided hikes once a month. Details in German here. And more information on hiking routes including GPX files here.

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Recommendations for hikes by my mum on Komoot:

 

Go-Kart

My brother Johannes is a Go-Kart fanatic and can give detailed advice if desired (lives in Tuningen, WhatsApp +49 1516 5513320).

 

Alpine Ski

Johannes can also give advice on Alpine Ski if desired (WhatsApp +49 1516 5513320).

Hohenkarpfen

Hills worth Visiting

  • Hohenkarpfen (15 min, 988 altitude) – extinct volcano, has an excellent restaurant and a goat farm selling local products

  • Dreifaltigkeitsberg (20 min, 990 altitude)

  • Castle Hohentwiehl (25 min – recommended) - castle ruins on an extinct volcano with medieval games in the summer

  • Feldberg (50 min, highest mountain of the Black Forest, altitude 1439 m). Has a tower and a cable car lift

Lakes for Swimming

  • Titisee (45 min) in the Black Forest and SUP (Stand Up Paddle Board) Station 

  • Schluchsee (55 minutes) in the Black Forest has a nice lido and pool 

Naturbad Troase

Swimming and Leisure Pools

Badische Staatsbrauerei Rothaus
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English SchwarzwaldCard

Breweries

Note: Some tours of the breweries require a minimum age of 16 years. In Germany, beer and wine can be served to 16-year olds and drunk from the age of 14 under the surveillance of their guardians. The minimum age for spirits is 18 years.

Nightlife

Local discos and venues with live music that might be appreciated are:

Tourist Information

A visit to the tourist information provides valuable recommendations on current regional activities and events:

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Schwarzwald Card

The Black Forest Card is sold (31 to 127 Euro) by the tourism association offering free admission, free rides and further advantages at more than 160 attractions in the entire holiday region. The card is valid on three days that can be selected freely within the period of April until March of the following year. There are also many attractions (“bonuspartner”) that grant free entry or other benefits outside of the three-day period. Further information and online purchase here: https://www.schwarzwaldcard.shop/

You should consider, if the Schwarzwald Card will be good value for you or not since our house is ideally situated not only to visit the Black Forest but also the Lake of Constance, the Danube Valley (with Tuttlingen, Beuron and Sigmaringen) and the Neckar Valley (with Rottweil and Stuttgart). Therefore most guests prefer to see the wider region and opt not to purchase the Schwarzwald Card.

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