Travel Guide: In and around Tuningen (minutes are car journey time)

Figures in minutes are car journey times.

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Eating Out

• Curry 14 (650 m in the village center): simple and good value for money Curry Wurst, Burgers and Pizza

• Restaurant Keyif Kebap & Pizza (900m on the road direction motorway, open every day): nice pizza and kebab, do home delivery, call +49-7464-9891150 or online on liferando.de

• Lehre Post, Sunthausen (5 min, affordable genuine Swabian dishes, pre-booking recommended 07706 1356). Recommended as a destination of a nearly one hour walk over the fields.

• Gasthaus Adler, Hochemmingen (5 min), high quality genuine traditional Swabian "Gut Bürgerlich" in a plain Restaurant setting. Zwiebelrostbraten recommended. Suitable for a 45 min to 60 min walk from the house.

• Waldcafé Gaststätte, Hochemingen (10 min, “Gut Bürgerlich” traditional Swabian with nice views). Recommended as a destination of a good one hour's walk over the fields.

• Die Burg, Aasen (10 min, up-market fine dining)

• Trattoria und Pizzeria Hexenweiher, Donaueschingen Golfplatz (15 min, up-market Italian)

• Hofgut Hohenkarpfen, Hohenkarpfen (15 min, up-market German restaurant in a very scenic setting on an extinct volcano. Take the walk up to the carter or to the goat farm)

• Restaurant mundart, Gutmadingen (15 min via A81, reasonably priced de-luxe menus in an extraordinary converted animal barn). Reservations in good time mandatory +49-7704-922983.

• Hotel & Gasthof Tannenmühle (60 minutes in the Black Forest), own delicious trout farming with some animals and small attractions for kids makes it a small outing. Book Table Online!

Groceries, Money etc.

Feel free to use any food/spices/oil/sauces etc in the house and replace them if you use any significant quantities.

Be aware that in Germany shops are closed on Sundays. Usual business hours for small shops will be something like 8am to 12 and 2 to 6pm, Saturday morning possibly. Sunday closed. Big supermarkets can be open from 7 am to 9pm from Monday to Saturday. For out of hours check for 24-hour vending machines and the 24/7 supermarket in the Aral filling station in Schwenningen (below).

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Antiques: Werner Esslinger (500m)

Bakeries

All supermarkets offer some bakeries.

• Krachenfels (at Netto supermarket)

• Schneckenburger (in the Total filling station, Spelt bread (Dinkelbrot) and Black Forest cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte) recommended, tasty sandwiches for day trips)

Banks with ATM

• Volksbank (600 m in the village center)

• Kreissparkasse (600 m in the village center)

Butchers

• Farmshop of the Leimgrabenhof with local butcher's delicacies (800 m in the village center)

Fruit

• ZIZZI Südfrüchte & Obst (950 m), Mediterranean fruit and other specialities only open in season August to October 

Eggs

• Family Link, Bachstraße 24, Tuningen (900 m), 24-hour vending machine (Euro coins only)

Bio Farmshop and Milk

• Messners Hofladen (Im Winkel 7, Schura, 8 min) Freshly baked bread from the stone oven, meat and sausage from own slaughterhouse, eggs from farmyard chickens and carrots and potatoes grown on own fields, full organic range with with Bioland unpasteurized milk (the real stuff we drank before industrialization). Additional 24h vending machine with eggs, sausage, butter, curd, cream, yoghurt, chocolate, biscuits, flour, sugar and jam.

Pharmacy (Chemist)

• Kronen Apotheke (600 m in the village center in walking distance)

Post Office 900m

Strawberries

• Pick your own strawberries when in season here (5 min direction Weigheim) .

Supermarkets in the Village​​​

• Netto (1.5 km; discounter supermarket)

Supermarket Shopping Center Complex in Bad Dürrheim (5 min by car)

• Aldi (large discounter)

• Lidl (Large discounter)

• Kaufland (large supermarket with many international speciality sections)

• E center (large upmarket Supermarket)

• Dens Biomarkt (specialist organic and health supermarket)

• MediaMarkt (large electronics supermarket)

• dm Drogeriemarkt (drugstore, hygiene products and health foods)

• Adler (clothing discounter)

24/7 Supermarket

• REWE To Go bei Aral (Schwenningen, 9 minutes by car)

Coffee Roasters

• Der Kaffeemacher (Villingen, 20 min by car). Large selection of espresso beans. Combine with a visit to the lovely medieval town of Villingen.

• Donau Caffee (in Nahkauf Donaueschingen, 20 min by car) has several Espresso beans roasts. Combine your visit to the Schlosspark and the Spring of the Danube

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Chickens

You can watch the free range chickens on a 10 minute walk here (but are here sometime too) and buy their eggs from a 24-hour vending machine here 

Just a little down the road from the chickens there is a Celtic grave mound. Tuningen was founded by Celts. There several nice walks in this area.

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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:

• Wasserfall – Burgmühle Loop from Hüfingen: The Gaststätte "Wanderheim Burgmühle" at the end closes about 18:00 so need to leave in good time. Picnic possibilities en route as well as places to explore.

• Hochmoor und Moorsee – Blindensee Loop from Schonach im Schwarzwald: Good starting Point and simple bites to eat and drink at Reinertonishof

• Kleiner Bannwald – Beautiful lakeside path at the Riedsee round from Pfohren

• Kapuziner Eremitage – Views towards Geisingen with Round from Gutmadingen

• Gaststätte "Öfinger Landhaus" – Himmelberg Loop from Öfingen

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Nordic Walking