Romantic Road

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State:

• Bavaria
• Baden-Wurttemberg

The Romantic Road is one of the most famous and popular scenic routes in Germany.

With about five million guest nights, one additional four to five times as high number of daily visitors and about 15,000 jobs generated directly by tourism, it is an economically important southern German destination.

It starts on Main, leads from the west of Franconia in Bavaria Swabia, on a piece of Upper Bavarian region to the edge of the Alps in the Eastern Allgäu, again in the administrative region of Swabia. The road stretches 413 km from Würzburg to Füssen.

Attractions

Important intermediate stations in historical terms or because of the attractive landscape are Wurzburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Dinkelsbühl, Nördlingen, Donauwörth, Augsburg, Landsberg am Lech and Friedberg.

Scenic areas are the Tauber Valley, the Ries, the Lechrain and the entire alpine foothills between Landsberg am Lech and Füssen.

Attractions include the Würzburg Residence, the medieval townscapes of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, the Fuggerei Augsburg, Landsberg am Lech, with its historic old town and the Lechwehr, Wies Church ( one of the famous rococo churches ) and of King Ludwig II. built Neuschwanstein Castle.

Genesis

The Romantic Road was established in 1950. With the foundation we pursued the goal of making Germany after the Second World War as a tourist destination attractive again. Germany should be presented as an image embedded in the European history of land with the appropriate equipment to architectural and art monuments. The first tourists were Americans who made the occupation soldiers and their families a relaxing holiday.

In early 2009 there was the first path change since the founding of the Romantic Road. The path now goes by Donauwörth along the Danube on Rain and Thierhaupten to Augsburg. From Augsburg the route now leads on Kissing and Mering to Landsberg am Lech.

On 14 September 2011, a further change in the route guidance, this time in the range of Landsberg Hohenfurch officially opened, which leads off the B17 over the villages. The course of Landsberg am Lech is now Erpfting, Denklingen, Schwabsoien, Old Town, Schwab Niederhofen after Hohenfurch and no longer have the 3- streaky -developed national road 17

In September 2012, the route between Nördlingen and Donauwörth was changed. Instead of leading directly on the B25 they now goes back roads of Nördlingen to Harburg, where it crosses the old course. From Harburg it leads then, also on side streets, according to Kaisheim to lead from there via the B2 to Donauwörth.

The Romantic Road ends at the Franciscan feet ( St. Stephen ) in feet.

Radfernweg and long distance hiking

For cyclists, there is a signposted alternative route. This 424 km langeRadfernweg Romantic Road runs mainly on back roads and bike paths. In addition there is one, sometimes running on narrower trails, long-distance trail. It was opened in Würzburg in 2006.

Signs of the bicycle route

End of the Romantic Road to the abbey of St. Stephen in Füssen ( Franciscan feet )

Others

The Romantic Road shapes the image of Germany abroad significantly. The mid-1990s knew 93 percent of the " travel -capable" Japanese, the Romantic Road, at least in name. Also in Brazil is one of the Romantic Road of the top attractions for vacationers Germany. The Romantic Road is also an export hit: In Japan since 1982 there is a located on the German model exploratory Romantic Road. Since 1998 with the Rota Romântica a Brazilian variant and the South Korean branch was opened in 2009.

Since 1985 is the branch office of the Association " Romantic Road " in Dinkelsbühl.