- Towers to climb in germany black forest update#
- Towers to climb in germany black forest plus#
- Towers to climb in germany black forest series#
To their credit the BF tourist website never mentions anything to do with the brothers Grimm (nor do any German language bloggers when writing about the region).
Towers to climb in germany black forest series#
For Germans themselves it tends to be more associated with a 1980s TV drama series or somewhere your aunt goes camping each summer. There are some more modern tales based in the Black Forest like ‘The Necromancer’ or ‘Heart of Stone’, though I doubt many people are familiar with them.
This isn’t helped when even the BBC can be used as a source to cite the incorrect myth. However, much of the fascination now seems to be related to a belief that the Brothers Grimm were either inspired to write their stories after visiting ( very wrong) or collected their stories which all/mostly originated there (wrong, but a bit less wrong at least). The Anglo interest possibly started 100+ years ago with the spas and then popularity of hiking tours in the region. The Emmental even has more of the giant wooden farmhouses and feels more Black Foresty than the real Black Forest at times. Across the border I spend lots of time in the Swiss Jura and Emmental regions which have much of the same feel, even lower lying areas in the Swiss flatland like the Bucheggberg often have the right look. There are lots of German Mittelgebirge (medium sized mountains) that offer much of the same and could easily fit any Fairy Tale Forest/Wooden house requirements: Saxon Switzerland, Harz, Bayrische Wald, Spessart…. I like it and don't regret a minute that I have spent there. The BF is a beautiful area and there are endless hidden little corners to discover. Triberg itself qualifies as a particularly bad tourist trap with silly cuckoo clocks and fake highest waterfalls” clearly loses if you compare it with the Harz. it is no more or less interesting than the others and it e.g. It is a bloody ordinary Mittelgebirge (rolling hill country) of which there are many in Germany they make up half of the country. “The fixation with foreign tourists and foreign tourist information pages, guide books and so on with the Black Forest is simply bizarre. To quote one perplexed German on trip advisor:
Towers to climb in germany black forest plus#
Imgur album of images used in this post, plus some nice scenic examples from my travels there.Įnglish speakers seem to really romanticise the BF. lists events and festivals in the BF, but only in German it seems. there are some lesser known spots in pages like Landscape. has some good suggestions if you dig around a bit, e.g. The English Wikivoyage page has some content, but if you can read German or just apply a translation app then the German Wikivoyage page is much more detailed. Tourist website for the High ( Hoch) southern part of the BF. Tourist website for the national park area: Tour planner letting you plan hikes/rides or find suggestions:
I will get around to visiting the other two thirds one day maybe bikepacking in 2022. Anything north of there I just know from my research, though general points should still apply. I have spent quite a bit of time in the BF due to family links, but my experience only really around the southern Hoch Schwarzwald and just goes as far north as the Titisee. This post is meant to be more opinions and useful tips rather than an info dump/comprehensive guide (I haven’t visited enough of it for that).
Towers to climb in germany black forest update#
This is an update of an older post - it is still worth a look if only for the list of places of interest. What counts as BF can be quite varied, in some cases down to the Rhine, I am just dealing with the hilly wooded region. The Black Forest ( Schwarzwald), or BF from here on.
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