We are from Canada and will be visiting family just outside Freiburg in June/July. Our sons are 16 and 13, and we are trying to find a few entertaining things to consider (we know they will be bored after viewing the 3rd or 4th church!). Other than EuropaPark and the waterfall at Triberg, does anyone have any suggestions for active/energetic teens? Day trips to Switzerland or France would be quite possible. At home they like to wakeboard, play hockey, ski, bike...
Thanks!
Keishaw
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I will be in Freiburg with my wife and 3 teenagers in mid-July. We are renting an apartment and the owner forwarded a very helpful booklet of day trips and activities in the area. This website may be helpful http://schwarzwald-vacation.spaces.live.com/
The booklet is a pdf file that can be emailed to you if interested.
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Thanks very much for your reply.
I would be very interested in receiving that pdf booklet... it sounds like it would be very helpful.
Is there some way I can allow you to see my email on this site so you can send it to me?
Otherwise, how can I request it from that site? I looked, but did not see an area to do that. Can you guide me to it or do you think I could just contact that apartment owner directly and ask for it, even though I won%26#39;t be renting from them?
K
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Biking/hiking are activities with plenty of options/routes in the Black Forest.
Black Forest Open Air Museum Vogtsbauernhof
http://vogtsen.land-in-sicht.com/index.php
Wutachtal Museum Railway
stadt-blumberg.de/ceasy/…
%26gt; be bored after viewing the 3rd or 4th church!
Don%26#39;t miss to climb on the tower of the cathedral in Freiburg.
The Schlumpf Collection (automobile museum) in Mulhouse/Alsace
www.collection-schlumpf.com/en/schlumpf/
Basel has also a number of interesing museums.
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It%26#39;s a good area for mountainbiking, there%26#39;s a special %26#39;downhill trail%26#39; from the Schauinsland as well. Bike rental in Freiburg should be easy, it%26#39;s very popular. They even got a %26#39;Mountainbike-school%26#39;.
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The boys might be interested in the Hoechenschwand-nature sport center, where among other things you can do things high above the ground, see www.hoechenschwand.de .
There is the bird park with its birds of prey show, www.vogelpark-steinen.de .
Between Neubulach and Wildberg is the visitable undrground silver mine. Near Wieden are two other visitable mines.
For a fairytale-like castle, Hohenzollern (Hechingen) is excellent. Not too far to the east of it is a summer rodelbahn (bobsled like ride) near Melchingen, and just a little further east of there is the Baerenhoehle (Bear%26#39;s cave) and also an amusement park (Dreamland at the bear%26#39;s cave). Another excellent fairytale-like castle is just north of there, Lichtenstein.
There is a waterpark Aqua FUN near the Schluchsee.
If you purchase map #16 in Die Shell Regional Karte large scale map series of Germany from a Shell gas station it will show you lots more of interesting places to visit in this corner of Germany and nearby France and Switzerland. The better places to visit are highlighted in yellow for cultural features and green for natural ones, and the best things also have a box around them. Even many non-highlighted things are excllent to visit, and many months%26#39; worth of excellent things to see are shown on this map.
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Here some ideas for Switzerland:
Lucerne (1 1/2 hour drive from Freiburg im Breisgau):
There is a big %26quot;rop park%26quot; and a summer toboggan run at the pilatus. http://www.pilatus.ch/content-n138-sE.html and of course you shouldn%26#39;t miss the great view from the top of mountain
There are many lakes and rivers where you can do canoe, kayak, rafting trips.
The official tourist information has list of family excursions.
myswitzerland.com/en.cfm/holidayoffers/excur…
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The whole family would enjoy a visit to the Mercedes Benz museum in Stuttgart with 120 years of automotive history on display in the form of 180 vehicles including the first car, Mercedes through the years, racing cars, and cars driven or used by famous people such as the Popemobile. Everybody irregardless of age or gender enjoys this museum. The current much smaller Porsche museum doesn%26#39;t have many cars and would appeal mainly to its (and racing) enthusiasts. In the Leuze mineral baths you can swim in bubbly carbonated water for a different experience. www.stuttgart-tourist.de
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Thank-you everyone for the great ideas!
A few questions:
Marcopolko: I went to the site www.hoechenschwand.de, and tried to translate it (I speak only a tiny bit of German) - but it wouldn%26#39;t work. When you say %26quot;do things high above the ground%26quot;, what does that mean? Bungee jumping, zip-lining, etc.? Or ? Can you give me a brief idea? Great advice about that map, thanks.
Is the Porsche museum in Stuttgart as well? We will definitely check those both out. And do you know are ALL of the mineral baths co-ed/no clothes? Or are there any for those of us that are used to keeping our swimsuits on? :-)
Mube: I was specifically looking for white-water rafting trips previously, and had no luck. Thanks for that link, I%26#39;ll check it out. If you can suggest any specific rafting trips/operators, that would be appreciated.
Do any of you have any links for us to find out what rock concerts might be happening in that general area (as I said, we could make day trips and longer drives if necessary). Perhaps a popular concert promoter or radio station website?
Thanks again, this is exactly what I was hoping to find!
K
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%26gt; Is the Porsche museum in Stuttgart as well?
Yes. BUT the new one will open only in 2008. The current one is a single room with some 20 Porsche cars. Only recommended for real Porsche enthusiasts.
The Mercedes-Benz Museum is brand new and an oustanding museum.
%26gt; And do you know are ALL of the mineral baths co-ed/no clothes?
Co-ed: yes - apart from a few hours. But only the sauna is with no clothes. The swimming pool area is with clothes.
DAS LEUZE mineral bath is a nice combination of fun pool and mineral bath.
www.stuttgart.de/baeder/kbb.php…
The %26quot;red parts%26quot; are all with clothes. With a normal entrance ticket you don%26#39;t have access to the %26quot;yellow parts%26quot; (sauna and other treatments).
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DAS FEST in Karlsruhe (20.-22.07.2007)
http://www.das-fest-karlsruhe.de/
Of the category %26quot;umsonst %26amp; draußen%26quot; (don%26#39;t know the proper translation ~ free and outdoors).
a video from one of the acts last year
vids.myspace.com/index.cfm…
Southside Festival in Neuhausen ob Eck (22.-24.06.2007)
www.southside.de/index.php?lng=_englisch
One of the best festivals in Germany.
events in Freiburg and (wider area)
http://www.bis.freiburg.de/4/4/120/index.php
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