91 attractions in Baden-Württemberg, including Solitude Palace (Schloss Solitude), Schwetzingen Palace and Weikersheim Palace.
Palaces
Stuttgart
Duke Carl Eugen of Württemberg wanted a retreat in his hunting grounds and called it "Solitude". What he got was a Rococo pleasure palace with a dome, sweeping staircases and terraces on a ridge west of Stuttgart, with a 13 km, ruler-strai…
Palaces
Schwetzingen
Schwetzingen Palace and its gardens, the former summer residence of the Electors Palatine, rank among the finest historic gardens in Europe. Set between Heidelberg and Mannheim in Baden-Württemberg, the roughly 70-hectare (170-acre) park b…
Palaces
Weikersheim
Weikersheim Palace (Schloss Weikersheim) is a Renaissance palace in the Tauber Valley of northern Baden-Württemberg and the ancestral seat of the Hohenlohe family. Its highlights are a splendid knights' hall with a painted coffered ceiling…
Old towns & squares
Stuttgart
Schlossplatz in Stuttgart (Palace Square) is the city's grand central square and the best place to start exploring the capital of Baden-Württemberg. Framed by the baroque New Palace, the colonnaded Königsbau, the Old Castle and the glass c…
Lakes
Schluchsee
Lake Schluchsee in the southern Black Forest is the largest lake in the Black Forest and the second-largest body of water in the state of Baden-Württemberg after Lake Constance. Set at about 3,050 feet (930 m) between the Feldberg and the…
Museums
Gutach (Schwarzwaldbahn)
The Black Forest Open Air Museum Vogtsbauernhof in Gutach is the best-known open-air museum in the Black Forest and one of the most rewarding things to do in this part of southwest Germany. Historic farmhouses, mills and workshops were mov…
Museums
Stuttgart
Bright green window bands, pink and blue tubular handrails and striped sandstone and travertine walls that recall an ancient building: when James Stirling's Neue Staatsgalerie opened in 1984, architects argued fiercely about it. Today it i…
Viewpoints
Stuttgart
The Stuttgart TV Tower (Fernsehturm Stuttgart) is a city landmark and a milestone in engineering history: completed in 1956, it was the world's first TV tower built of reinforced concrete with an observation pod, and it became the model fo…
Museums
Mannheim
The Technoseum in Mannheim is Baden-Württemberg's state museum of technology and work, and one of Germany's major science and technology museums. Spread over six levels, it tells the story of industrialization and everyday technology throu…
Viewpoints
Rottweil
You can see it from the A 81 motorway: a slender, spirally twisted tower rising high above Rottweil, the oldest town in Baden-Württemberg. The TK Elevator Test Tower is 246 m tall and is really a test facility for high-speed lifts. At the…
Waterfalls
Todtnau
Above Todtnau, the Stübenbächle stream tumbles from a high valley into the Schönenbach valley with real force: over five steps the water drops a total of 97 m. The second-to-last step alone measures about 60 m, by far the highest single dr…
Waterfalls
Bad Urach
The Uracher Wasserfall (Urach Waterfall) near Bad Urach is one of the best-known waterfalls in the Swabian Jura, the limestone upland south of Stuttgart. In the quiet Maisental valley, the Brühlbach stream drops over a mossy ledge of calca…
Churches & monasteries
Uhldingen-Mühlhofen
Birnau Pilgrimage Basilica sits above the northern shore of Lake Constance like a stage set: a pink façade, a slender tower and vineyards sloping down to the water of the Überlinger See. Inside is one of the most complete Rococo interiors…
Churches & monasteries
Bad Schussenried
The pilgrimage church of Steinhausen near Bad Schussenried in Upper Swabia is often called the most beautiful village church in the world. Between 1728 and 1733 the architect Dominikus Zimmermann created an oval interior that his brother J…
Nature parks
Pforzheim
The Westweg (West Way) is a classic long-distance hiking trail in the Black Forest, in existence since 1900. It runs for about 285 km (177 miles) from Pforzheim at the northern edge of the mountains to Basel, where Germany, France and Swit…
Other
Hayingen
The Wimsener Höhle (Wimsen Cave) near Hayingen in the Swabian Jura is the only cave in Germany you can explore by boat. A boatman guides a small punt across crystal-clear, turquoise water into the mountain while explaining how the cave for…
Other
Bonndorf im Schwarzwald
The Wutach Gorge (Wutachschlucht) in the Black Forest is often called the "Grand Canyon of the Black Forest." It is one of the longest and wildest gorges in Germany and lies in southern Baden-Württemberg, near the towns of Bonndorf, Löffin…
Museums
Friedrichshafen
The Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen holds the world's most important collection on the history of airships and is one of the top things to do on Lake Constance. Housed in a listed 1930s harbor station right on the waterfront, it tells t…
Churches & monasteries
Zwiefalten
From the outside, little Zwiefalten on the southern edge of the Swabian Jura looks almost sleepy, until you stand in front of the grey façade of its minster. Behind it opens one of the largest Baroque church interiors in Germany: paired ma…