Schwarzwaldhochstraße

The Black Forest High Road is the oldest and one of the most scenic routes in Germany. It is part of the federal highway 500

Course

The Black Forest Road begins in Baden -Baden and rises steeply to the main ridge of the northern Black Forest up, which they achieved in the Buhlerhohe. Here's the same luxury hotel. On a rock there is a small St. Mary's Church, popularly called Adenauer chapel with remarkable stained glass windows. In clear weather you have a comprehensive view of the Rhine valley to the Vosges.

From the Buhlerhohe the high road runs to 800 to over 1000 meters above sea level at several height Hotels over ( Plättig, sand, Hundseck (2012 demolished), Unterstmatt, Mummelsee, hearthstone, cut head, refuge, Alexanderschanze ), of which only a few are in operation. In sand at Mehliskopf a weather bobsled run is operated year-round next to a nearby ski slopes of several along the Black Forest Road. There is also the turnoff to the nearby Schwarzenbach dam and the cross-country center Herrenwies.

In Hundseck and Unterstmatt more ski lifts and restaurants follow.

Below the highest mountain in the Black Forest, the 1164 meter high Hornisgrinde, the road reaches the almost circular Mummelsee, resulting in one of the last glacial cirque lake.

At Hearthstone nature conservation center provides information on the Black Forest Nature Park Central / North. It is also responsible for several kilometers further south, situated on the road Lotharpfad, which demonstrates the consequences of hurricane Lothar. In addition to ski lifts and trails located at the hearthstone a Ski Jumping Hill plant. West of Hearthstone leads the only via ferrata in the northern Black Forest, on the ridge Karlsruhe

Over the hills of the grinding head and the Kniebis, past the refuge and Alexanderschanze, the road leads eventually to Freudenstadt, their last stop.

History

The name Black Forest High Road was first used in 1930 when the road between Hundseck and Unterstmatt was completed, the older routes from different valleys linked together into height field. The building was used to make the existing height hotels better for the emerging car accessible tourism. In the Third Reich following extensions strategic military importance, in particular the then unfinished construction of the section between hearthstone and Alexanderschanze through a nature reserve in the years 1938 to 1941. Was only in 1952 had was the distance from Baden -Baden to Freudenstadt consistently passable.