Wie ghet’s Leute. I am inspired by another post and wanted to try the say. We plan to explore south west Germany this May:
FRA: 2 days just to adjust
Mainz: 4 days (this feels excessive. we wanted try to tag the opening day of WeinUfer. Maybe an ICE day trip up to Köln? Or should we just forget WeinUfer)
Karlsruhe: 1 day
Freiburg: 5 days (with some hiking, slow days)
Stuttgart: 1-2 (departing airport)
We will probably just use Deutsche Pass for this whole thing. May be rent a car for a day or two if needed. Germany is not new to this area. So are there any other festivals / villages / sights we should include? Or schedule is flexible. We like local places more than tourist places. Maybe watch mid-tier football? Many thanks!
Edit: I can’t change the title. I am bracing for impact.
Edit 2: I was led to believe humor is a foreign concept for germans. I have been misinformed.
Edit 3: I should delete this. I worry one day my great-great-great grandchildren will see this.
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What did you do to your device that it turns autocorrect against you so violently?
>Baden Mütterberatung
I’ve seen a lot of creative spellings for this state, but that’s the best yet.
From Tübingen you can drive to Esslingen am Neckar before heading into Stuttgart, it has a very pretty old town!
Not stopping in Heidelberg should be considered criminal.
Deutsche pass means German passport, I‘m not sure how that would help you, I guess what you mean is Deutschlandticket, but keep in mind that it is a subscription and you need to cancel before the 10th of the month to prevent auto-renewal for next month. Also, ICE trains are not included.
4 days for Mainz is really excessive. In general I would suggest to rather explore mid sized towns than the big ones. They are often more picturesque. Like Wiesbaden, Marburg, Freiburg is fine, maybe Rothenburg, Bad Reichenhall
OK by now you’ve learned what exactly a Mutterberatung is.
Anyway, you have picked the whackest cities to visit. Grt out of Frankfurt immediately. Ditch Stuttgart go to Ludwigsburg instead
You must visit Heideberatung as well, one of the most beautiful cities in Baden Mütterberatung
Your plan seems a bit unfocused. I would skip Frankfurt and Karlsruhe. Mainz can be easily reached from Frankfurt Airport and is nicer to stay in than Frankfurt. You can just do Frankfurt as a day trip from there. 4 nights in Mainz is a lot if you only stay in Mainz. Do day trips to Wiesbaden and up the Rhine valley to Koblenz. You can take the ferry from Mainz to Koblenz and enjoy the Rhine valley in all its beauty. The Rhine valley is really beautiful and full of castles and small villages. It is also famous for wine. I would stay for a night or two. Bacharach, Boppard or St. Goar would fit.
Why Karlsruhe if I may ask? The city is not that interesting. I would go to Heidelberg or Baden Baden instead. Much prettier.
Are you staying in Stuttgart or Tübingen? You added Tübingen on your map but you didn’t include any nights there. Tübingen is definitely prettier than Stuttgart, so you won’t go wrong with staying there. The most interesting thing in Stuttgart are the car museums but if those don’t interest you, the city is just ok. If you stay in Tübingen, then you have a direct bus to the airport, so no worries there.
What is the Deutsche Pass? The Deutschlandticket or the German Interrail pass? The distances you are trying to cover aren’t that large and you seem to only stay during may, so the Deutschlandticket makes sense in my opinion.
The Karlsruher Mess starts at the end of may and the Frühlingsfest in Stuttgart ends on may 10th. You are probably missing both.
In May, there are many wine hikes on the Kaiserstuhl during the holidays… a beautiful area with views of the Black Forest and the French Vosges Mountains… good food, very good wine… come and visit…
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Good luck finding a mother on that path
Definately stop in Heidelberg!
Depends on what your favorite hobbies/things to do on vacation are.
Others have already said as much, but two days in Frankfurt and four days in Mainz sound excessive (except if you want to do the Weinstraße and sample the local winemakers).
Freiburg is really pretty, but five days seem quite a lot as well.
As others have suggested, tack on a half- to full day in Heidelberg as well as a half- to full day in Tübingen.
And I think one day in Stuttgart might be enough. And I say that as someone who’s from there.
Is the Mutterberatung covered by statutory insurance or do I have to pay extra?
I would stay one day less in Freiburg and therefore one more in Stuttgart.
Freiburg is beautiful but not that big.
Maybe from mainz to Heidelberg instead of cologne.
As someone living in that area (in Karlsruhe to be exact) I don’t think focusing on the bigger cities is the right move here. There are so many small towns and smaller cities with historical sites along your route and it seems you want to skip them all. I’d look into the villages along Weinstraße, Heidelberg, Speyer, Baden-Baden, Schwarzwaldhochstraße, Wissembourg and Strassbourg on the French side, Titisee-Neustadt, Freudenstadt, Bad Wildbad just to name a few.
To find festivals you can look online for “Volksfeste” in the region. You are there around asparagus time so I guess you will come across a Spargelfest somewhere as that’s quite a big deal in this area.
Four days might be a bit much for Mainz. I suggest rather than taking the ICE to Cologne, you might take an RE train to Koblenz: that takes you down the most spectacular part of the Rhine with — assuming you take the line down the left bank via Bingen — a view of the Loreley. Spend a few hours in Koblenz and then return to Mainz, that should be a pleasant day out.
If you want to use Karlsruhe as a base from which to visit the Black Forest — the city itself isn’t especially interesting — you could perhaps just have three days in Mainz and one in Karlsruhe.
Stuttgart is a pretty unpleasant city, unfortunately, but there are some interesting places nearby. My personal favourite is the town of Herrenberg, which is quite photogenic and has easy access to pleasant walking country (just go up the hill behind the church, no dreary trudge through modern housing districts).
My first thought after reading that title was ‘Is this a rant about “Mütterberatung” not being available and having to drive through half the state?’
Cut Freiburg down to 2 days and spend 3 in Alsace
What are your interests? History, technology, art, lifestyle, nature, sports, design, fun fairs, music, theatre? You can have all of that in this area and time of the year
Stop by Burg Hohenzollern and Feldberg
On any given Saturday, we have a so called Marktfrühstück in Mainz. It’s a farmers market at the cathedral and wine stands throughout the city.
Mainz and Fra are nearby. You can easy commute