Baden-Baden Questions

Hello,

We will be staying in Baden-Baden for just one night in ac ouple of weeks. My husband wanted to go look for cookoo clocks and I wanted to take a short walk in the black forest. We will not have a car.

Where are these things located and how do we get there? Are the cookoo clocks in the town shopping area?

Also, where is a good place to eat? I heard the restaurants inside the Rathausglockel is good, which is also close to our hotel. Any other place you would recommend over that?

We are staying at the Hotel Am-Markt, if that helps with the cookoo cloks and the black forest walk.

Thanks for any help!

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%26gt;cookoo clocks%26lt;

You%26#39;ll find them at clockmaker%26#39;s and some jeweller%26#39;s shops around the pedestrian precinct. It is only a short walk from your hotel to the shopping area.

%26gt;good place to eat%26lt;

La Provence, Schlossstrasse 20, is a 5 min. walk from the hotel uphill

http://www.restaurant-la-provence.com/

Loewenbrau, a Bavarian reataurant and beer garden

http://www.loewenbraeu-baden-baden.de/

A very good curry house is Namaskar, Kreuzstrasse 2

Sushi room, restaurant and bar at Augustaplatz:

http://www.medici.de/

Nice garden restaurant at the little river:

atlantic-parkhotel.de/de/…index.php

%26gt;short walk in the black forest%26lt;

Get on bus 204 or 205 from Leopoldsplatz to %26quot;Merkurwald%26quot;. There you can change for the funicular railway to the merkur mountain.

baden-baden.de/en/sportleisure/indexc.php…

The funicular station is also destination of the road train:

www.baden-baden.de/en/tourism/indexc.php…

But as Baden-Baden actually is a huge park, you could just stroll the town along the Lichtentaler Allee.

Bus line 208 is doing a round trip, passing most of the sights. It is running only on weekdays, hourly from 9:10 a.m., opposite your hotel.

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Wow, great answers! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Does it take long to ride the bus to the black forest destination? I ask since we are so pushed for time.

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It is a 10 min. walk from the hotel to the bus stop %26quot;Leopoldsplatz%26quot; and a 10 min. bus ride to the funicular station. Taxi (€ 8-10,--) would be faster, because buses are running only half hourly. The funicular works like an elevator. Once you boarded, just press the button %26quot;Abfahrt%26quot; (departure)

Enjoy!

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Thank you, sounds like fun!

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One more question. I noticed neither restaurant has Black Forest Cake on their menu. Is Black Forest Cake not really from the Black Forest? If it is from there, where can we get the best piece in town? Sorry to sound stupid!!! :)

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It is from the Black Forest and you%26#39;ll find it rather at %26quot;Café-Konditorei%26quot; houses and good hotel-restaurants, like Brenners or Atlantic. Average restaurants don%26#39;t provide it as often, because it needs a confectioner to make it. (Of course it is available at the supermarket%26#39;s cooling shelfs, too, but that%26#39;s beyond the pale;-))

The menus will show it as %26quot;Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte%26quot;

A good Konditorei is %26quot;Café Beeg%26quot;, a 3 min. walk downhill from your hotel, opposite the Friedrichsbad.

Cafe Koenig, Lichtentaler Strasse 12, looks a bit run down inside, but quality is good.

If you like to splurge a bit:

www.brenners.com/englisch/einleitung.php

In case you have a sweet tooth, don%26#39;t miss the %26quot;Confisérie Rumpelmayer%26quot; in the colonnades next to the casino. Elysian filled chocolates!

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Wow, you are a wealth of information. You should be a local expert! Thank you so much!

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I have another stupid question!

Is the park you mentioned, Lichtentaler Allee, park of the %26quot;Black Forest%26quot; or do you have to ride the Funicular up the mountain to get there?

I know I%26#39;m ignorant! Thanks again so much.

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ca_vol,

just to make you more confused: all of Baden-Baden is %26quot;part of the Black Forest%26quot;. Black Forest is a montain range, not a park. Baden-Baden is a town in a valley in this mountain range.

Lichtenthaler Allee is a road hugging a city park, a very beautiful one.

By using the funicular you get out of the valley and onto the top of one of the hills/mountains.

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

So Baden-Baden itself is in the Black Forest but in the valley. To get to the official Black Forest, you have to go to the mountains, right?