5/8/2023 0 Comments Black forest trail![]() ![]() However, the rental car agency I booked was 30 minutes south of Stuttgart. Also, Germany’s top-notch road system has convenient viewpoints where you can stop and photograph the remarkable surroundings. The Black Forest is dotted with villages served by only occasional public transportation. Unless your hiking itinerary includes walking 40 miles from the airport, renting a car is a must. Vital & Wellnesshotel Albblick in Waldachtal. However, in between made me want to fire my travel agent. We took a 1-hour, 45-minute flight from our home in Rome to Stuttgart and drove the 40 miles south to Waldachtal. The arrivalįinding the back of beyond in rural Germany isn’t difficult. However, their descriptions of dark and scary forests certainly sound like the Black Forest.īut if you’re planning a trip here, don’t tell your kids. There is no historic documentation that the Black Forest was their inspiration and it’s never mentioned in their 200 children’s stories. They never lived within 120 miles of the Black Forest. ![]() Not one town is in the Black Forest’s state of Baden-Wurttemberg. The brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, were born in Hanau, grew up in Steinau, went to university in Marburg and worked in Kassel, Gottingen, Berlin and Mainz. It’s a common theme here, particularly in souvenir stands, that the Black Forest’s perpetual darkness, perpetuated by morning fog, produced the eerie atmosphere that inspired the Brothers Grimm’s stories. The mystery of the Black Forest dates back centuries. The Black Forest as the site of Grimms’ Fairy Tales is a fairy tale in itself. Unfortunately, I had some bad news for Marina. Yes, nearly everyone grew up on Grimms’ Fairy Tales. She also grew up like many children with tales of daring do, of fellow kids defying the odds of hungry wolves, witches and evil stepmothers. She saw the photos of the tall trees, the isolation, the raw beauty. The Black Forest has fascinated Marina ever since she read stories about it in her old travel magazine, PleinAir, where she was a graphic artist. We were more interested in saunas and picnics in forest meadows than wild fables about little girls barely escaping man-eating wolves. In fact, the Black Forest really has nothing to do with the theory that Grimm’s Fairy Tales were based there. That’s not big for a state but imagine the same area trunk to limb with trees and 13,800 miles of well-marked hiking trails.Īdd a conscientious attention to conservation and it’s no mystery why the Black Forest is one of the most popular areas in Germany. It’s a region, measuring 100 miles long by 30 miles wide and covering 1.5 million acres. Marina and I came to southwest Germany two weeks ago to taste a slice of spa life in one of the most mysterious regions in Europe. Pininterest image Black Forest Holidays image It has been called the Black Forest ever since. They were so thick, sunlight dissolved into mere twinkles by the time it reached the mossy earth. In fact, they couldn’t see anything through these trees. More than 2,000 years ago when the Ancient Roman army ruled this land they couldn’t see the forest through these trees. Ferns, bushes, grass and ground cover painted a picture of an emerald green ocean stretching to the horizon. Fir and pine trees stretched 100 feet into a steel gray autumn sky. WALDACHTAL, Germany - We walked across the narrow road from our spa, where we lounged in the lap of lazy luxury all week, and into instant wilderness. Germany’s Black Forest covers 1.5 million acres and has 13,800 miles of hiking trails. ![]()
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