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Sightseeings and excursion trips

The market place
The market place of Freudenstadt, with an area of 216 x 219 meters, is the largest in Germany. Its famous arcades as well as the numerous retail stores all around invite to take a promenade and a shopping expedition. Huge water fountains plash on the market place. A week market takes place on Fridays, in the summer mid-year also on Tuesdays.

Town church Freudenstadt
The protestant town church, which is on the south side of the market place, is considered the most significant building of Freudenstadt. Its green pyramidal tower roofs give the town silhouette a special accent. The God's house was built between 1601 and 1608 as an angled construction in the forms of gothic renaissance. Only a few of the former rich furnishings are left behind, a solely a wooden cross from that time period of 1500, a baptismal font from the 12th century and a lectern from the same era.
Opening hours: daily from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Free guidances: bi-weekly from May to October, always on Fridays at 2:00 p.m.

Town house museum of local history
The museum of local history is located in the representative town house at the market place. You will learn a lot about the history of the town and the city planner and construction master Heinrich Schickhardt there, but also about the history of the colony, the country home decor, the handicrafts and the tourism in the region.
Opening hours: Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Free guidance: bi-weekly from May to October, always on Fridays at 2:00 p.m.

Spa house and garden
You can admire variable exhibitions in the spa house of Freudenstadt. The adjoining spa garden is a place of relaxation, where you can enjoy quietness and pure nature in the middle of the town.

Visitor mine
The silver mine, rediscovered in 1998, which can be visited as visitor mine today, is witness of the mining tradition. The numerous maul and iron tracks are evidence of the former function of the miners. The mine can be traveled in several different challenging grades.
Opening hours: Easter to October, Saturdays, Sundays and on holidays from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Adventure park Dorotheenhutte (hut) (glass hut) in Wolfach with Christmas village
The adventure park Dorotheenhutte (hut) in Wolfach (about 38 km southwest of the 722-fwal castle hotel Northern Black Forest) has several complex buildings. The oldest part is the Mundblashutte (mouth glass-making hut), where the visitors can watch the mouth glass-makers during their work. If you want to, you can try this art with the help of professional guidance. A round tour through the glass museum is like a journey through 2.000 years of glass history. Glass products can be purchased in the Glaserland (glass land). Last but not least, you will also be attracted to visit the Christmas village with its 35 Christmassy decorated houses and market booths. Skillfuly arranged winter scenes in the snow and Christmas arrangements, Christmas decorations and other Christmas items, a snoring Santa Claus, a figure theater and a children's play house under sparkling sky let Christmas spirits run free.
Opening hours for all parts of the Dorotheenhutte:
Daily from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Closed: December 24, 25, 26 and 31 as well as January 1.

Open-air museum "Vogtsbauernhof"
(reeve barn)

The open-air museum "Vogtsbauernhof" in the community 77793 Gutach (about 47 km southwest of the 722-fwal castle hotel Northern Black Forest) offers a fascinating insight in the "good old times" and is really a worthwhile excursion trip for the young and old. Six impressive farms from the 16th to 18th century, with their corresponding adjoining buildings such as attic, house flour mill, saw mill and baking house await the visitor here. You have insight to the smoke kitchens, original furnished farm parlors and bedroom chambers, which demonstrative document the exhausting everyday life of the farmers.

Further excursion trips
Further worthwhile excursion trips are among others

  • Minster Alpirsbach (about 18 km south of 722-fwal castle hotel Northern Black Forest)
  • The town of Baden-Baden (about 59 km north of 722-fwal castle hotel Northern Black Forest)
  • Strasbourg / Strassburg (about 63 km west of
    722-fwal castle hotel Northern Black Forest)
  • The town of Tubingen (about 66 km east of 722-fwal castle hotel Northern Black Forest)
  • Europe park (Europaparke) Rust (about 85 km southwest of 722-fwal castle hotel Northern Black Forest)
  • The town of Freiburg (about 93 km southwest of 722-fwal castle hotel Northern Black Forest)

The famous 722-fwal castle hotel Northern Black Forest, which is also known across the borders of the town Freudenstadt, owns a long and eventful history. Crowned heads and personalities of public life have already enjoyed the special atmosphere and the hospitality of the hotel. The 722-fwal castle hotel Northern Black Forest was lovingly and elaborately restored according to the present standards. It was also furnished for well-being and relaxation and provided with the most modern comfort. An oasis of harmony for body, mind and soul came into existence.

If you cherish the pleasures of life, you will find the 722-fwal castle hotel Northern Black Forest without detours. It offers the historic and cultivated program and the comfort, which makes every visit to an unforgettable experience, to its guests. The 722-fwal castle hotel Northern Black Forest combines modern functions with the magnificent looks of the turn of the century. Tradition and progress complement one another here in an ideal way. The congeniality of the stylish furnished rooms provide cozy living residence. The materials are noble and natural, the colors fresh and inspiring. Simply a great atmosphere!

The numerous halls and rooms of the 722-fwal castle hotel Northern Black Forest are ideal for larger dinners, family celebrations, meetings, conferences, festive evening parties with dinner and dance as well as for romantic candle light dinners for two in the historical restaurant "Konig Wilhelm von Wurttemberg". The specialties of the cuisines and cellar offer a delightful table culture. If you have high demands on the culinary variety in a special program, you will feel at home in the 722-fwal castle hotel Northern Black Forest – a meeting point for cherished hospitality. Besides this, the hotel guest finds an institute for health care examinations and revitalization and a generous wellness and fitness area in the 722-fwal castle hotel Northern Black Forest as well as an 18-hole golf course nearby.

History of the hotel

The 722-fwal castle hotel Northern Black Forest, formerly world known as prince hotel (Furstenhotel), was first built as Villa Waldlust in 1879. The main house was the first grand hotel of Freudenstadt, the Black Forest hotel, which opened its doors in the year 1879, at the same time of the opening of the railway. Ernst Luz junior enlarged the hotel to a grand hotel and it still presents itself like this today.

Illustrious guests were greeted from the beginning in the 722-fwal castle hotel Northern Black Forest. The later English King Georg V. listed himself in the guestbook of the hotel in the year 1904. But also lords from German prince houses visited the new climatic spa town and the former castle hotel. This tradition was carried on after the 1st World War. King Gustav of Schweden (Mister G.), the queen mother Emma from Holland as well as his majesty King Wilhelm of Wurttemberg belonged to the guests of the house. Rockefeller, as ambassador of the American money aristocracy, Mark Twain, princess of Esterhazy as well as numerous other personalities of the public life let themselves be spoiled here. The hotel was confiscated  for the high command west of the general Dollmann in the 2nd World War and later used as a standby military hospital.

The 722-fwal castle hotel Northern Black Forest presents itself as a special jewel of the Black Forest and a part of the history of Freudenstadt today.

The town Freudenstadt
The medical climatic spa health resort and winter sport town Freudenstadt lies in the northern Black Forest at the crosspoint of three tourism streets (Schwarzwald-Hochstrasse, Schwarzwald-Baderstrasse and Schwarzwald-Talerstrasse). It was founded in the year 1599. Duke Friedrich of Wurttemberg let the town Freudenstadt be built as a plan town of the renaissance in the form of a mill game by his master constructor Heinrich Schlickhardt. Freudenstadt was to become residence. But the dreams of a residence town had to be buried because of the death of Friedrich of Wurttemberg in the year 1608. Freudenstadt developed to be a classical tradesman town.

The town Freudenstadt was heavily destroyed in the 2nd World War. But the reconstruction in the postwar period according to the old plans was considered perfect. Freudenstadt is a large district since 1988. The market place of Freudenstadt, which counts about 20,000 residents at present, has an area of 216 x 219 meters and thereby counts to the largest ones of Germany.

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