2. The KONUS Guest Card is only valid if filled out completely (includ- Use the busses and trains free of Participating associations of ing total number of persons and departure date). If you are not yet Travel low-cost and fast able to determine your departure date, please enter the presumable charge to experience the Black Forest. KONUS is valid here: transport companies date for your departure. Under the German Registration Act, you are to the Black Forest required to register stays of more than three months (if you have a • TGO – Tarifverbund Ortenau GmbH German residence, after six months) with the local registration office During your holiday in the Black Forest in more than 145 cities (including address) within two weeks. There is hardly no other holiday region that is so easy to reach KONUS is also valid in both www.ortenaulinie.de and communities you have a sensational advantage 3. Do not write on the KONUS Guest Card directly. If the registration form as the Black Forest. The airports Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden, directions on ... • VVR – Verkehrsverbund Rottweil GmbH – You receive the KONUS Guest Card (KONUS-Gästekarte) and is filled out by hand, then a carbon copy has to be produced in the Basel/Mulhouse/Freiburg in the west as well as – a bit fur- Line S1: on the Albtalbahn www.vvr-info.de can use busses and trains free of charge! Karlsruhe including city zone, presence of your accommodation provider. The eletronic Guest Card will ther away – Stuttgart and Friedrichshafen in the east make between Bad Herrenalb via fare zone 100 Ettlingen to Karlsruhe • RVF – Regio-Verkehrsverbund Freiburg GmbH be produced by your host. Supplemental changes made directly on the a low-cost journey to the region possible with national and Ettlingen KONUS Guest Card will render it invalid for public transportation. How can you use KONUS? www.rvf.de international low-cost carriers. The ICE railway line Frankfurt- Line S6: on the Enztalbahn Pforzheim Hbf between Bad Wildbad and 4. KONUS is only valid for people. It does not cover free transportation Basel, the IC railway line Munich-Basel, the Höllentalbahn, the With your registration with your host in one of the partici- • VSB – Verkehrsverbund Schwarzwald-Baar GmbH Pforzheim Hbf Rastatt for animals or bicycles. To that end, the respective Schwarzwaldbahn, the Murgtalbahn as direct connections pating holiday destinations you will receive the Schwarzwald- www.v-s-b.de tariff1.1. provisions from the transport companies Kulturbahn from the west to the east as well as the local transport sys- Bad Herrenalb Buslinie 880 and associations apply accordingly. Gästekarte. The Schwarzwald-Gästekarte replaces the local spa between Bad Liebenzell Bad Liebenzell • RVL – Regio Verkehrsverbund Lörrach GmbH Baden-Baden Weil der Stadt tem of busses make it easy to travel to the destinations in the card and allows entrance to many facilities at a reduced price and Pforzheim Hbf Bad Wildbad www.rvl-online.de 5. KONUS is only valid in connection with a valid photo ID of the person Calw Buslinie 670 11,000 square kilometre large region. in the Black Forest. whose name appears on the KONUS Guest Card. That person must • WTV – Waldshuter Tarifverbund GmbH also be personally present when the KONUS Guest Card is being used www.wtv-online.de by a group. The Schwarzwald-Gästekarte with the KONUS-symbol serves Kehl Jettingen Buslinie 6. The KONUS Guest Card is not transferrable. as a ticket for the local transport system and also offers many 7794 • VGF – Verkehrs-Gemeinschaft Landkreis Freudenstadt GmbH other services. Mötzingen www.vgf-info.de Freudenstadt 7. If you have registered as a group yet wish to use KONUS as a ticket Offenburg Eutingen im Gäu • VGC – Verkehrsgesellschaft Bäderkreis Calw mbH for individual group members, then you can obtain individual KONUS guest cards from your accommodation provider by presenting and The KONUS Guest Card is valid during the registered period of www.vgc-online.de time of your stay in all busses and trains of the participating exchanging your KONUS group guest card. We recommend having www.ortenaulinie.de • KVV – Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund GmbH individual KONUS guest cards issued when you register if you won‘t associations of transport companies (look for participating France (district Rastatt and Baden-Baden; Rheintalbahn to Karlsruhe always be traveling as a group. associations of transport companies) as a 2nd class ticket as Hbf; city zone Karlsruhe (fare zone 100); Albtalbahn (route 1) 8. In the interest of securing transportation, groups of more than 10 well as in the streetcars and busses of the cities Freiburg and Rottweil between Bad Herrenalb and Karlsruhe Hbf) persons traveling together must be registered with the respective Karlsruhe. www.kvv.de transportation authority at least three days prior to starting their Neufra journey. Groups fundamentally can only be taken onto buses with- Trossingen Bf Note: Exceptions are ICE-, IC and EC connections as well as Villingen- • VPE – Verkehrsverbund Pforzheim Enzkreis GmbH in the respective transport company‘s scheduled capacity. It is not always possible to accommodate all transportation wishes, especially mountain railways and funiculars. Schwenningen (Enztalbahn (route 6) between Bad Wildbad and Pforzheim during times of heavy traffic. When registering directly with the Breisach Freiburg Hbf; Kulturbahn between Bad Liebenzell and Pforzheim Hbf) transportation company, you‘ll receive either confirmation or alterna- www.vpe.de Donaueschingen tive suggestions. 9. KONUS is valid starting on the day of arrival upon arriving at your accommodation provider (check-in) until the day of departure. KONUS Neuenburg Bus and Rail for free can be used for the departure journey, but not for the arrival journey. Weizen 10. You can obtain information on the participating transportation asso- ciations, regional limits and the KONUS region from your accommo- Waldshut- Terms and Conditions for Using the KONUS Guest Card dation provider and/or the local Tourist Information Offices, or on the Tiengen Internet at www.blackforest-tourism.com/konus. If your journey exits Erzingen We have prepared a special service for your stay: In addition to the Lörrach the KONUS region, then the regular transportation fee must be paid discounted prices offered everywhere throughout Black Forest, you can Basel SBB starting from the final location in the KONUS region. also use the KONUS Guest Card to travel on busses and trains for free Basel in the whole KONUS region. The community currently pays a flat rate Please be sure to comply with these Terms and Conditions as well as Updated: December 2016 Switzerland of 42 cents per overnight from the visitor’s tax to the transportation the general transportation terms and conditions of the participating association. transportation associations and overlapping transportation companies. Border of the association KONUS area of validity Non-compliance is subject to a transportation fee of at least EUR 60,- . of transport companies (also in the inner-city) 1. KONUS is valid for 2nd class regional transportation within Railway line XY fi nal stop of the area where 1. the KONUS region; see outline map Schwarzwald Tourismus GmbH Updated: December 2016 KONUS is valid (does not include IC, EC, ICE trains or mountain railway). ©TI Hornberg Current conditions here: www.blackforest-tourism.com/info/konus Current conditions here: www.blackforest-tourism.com/info/konus Current conditions here: www.blackforest-tourism.com/info/konus Current conditions here: www.blackforest-tourism.com/info/konus Current conditions here: www.blackforest-tourism.com/info/konus Freudenstadt www.freudenstadt.de Ohlsbach www.ohlsbach.de Editor: Schwarzwald Tourismus GmbH Here you get the KONUS-Guest Card Friedenweiler www.friedenweiler.de Oppenau www.oppenau.de Heinrich-von-Stephan-Str. 8b • D - 79100 Freiburg Fröhnd www.froehnd.de Ottenhöfen www.ottenhoefen.de Tel. +49 761.89646-0 • [email protected] With your registration at one of more than 145 holiday destinations you Furtwangen www.furtwangen.de Pfalzgrafenweiler www.pfalzgrafenweiler.de www.blackforest-tourismus.com will receive the KONUS-Guest Card from your host, which you can also Gaggenau OT Bad Rotenfels* www.gaggenau.de Rickenbach www.rickenbach.de Managing director: Hansjörg Mair use as a ticket for the local public transport system. Please note that Gengenbach www.stadt-gengenbach.de Sasbach (Ortenau) www.sasbach.de Photo: DB Regio some of our business operations such as youth hostels and clinics are Gernsbach www.gernsbach.de Sasbach a.K. www.sasbach-am-kaiserstuhl.de exempted from spa taxation. The KONUS guest card cannot be issued Glottertal www.glottertal.de Sasbachwalden www.sasbachwalden.de Plan your trips online - 24-hours a day. The electronic informa- by these operators. Gottenheim www.gottenheim.de Schenkenzell www.schenkenzell.de tion on timetables in Baden-Württemberg (EFA) will offer the Aitern www.aitern.de Grafenhausen www.grafenhausen.de Schiltach www.schiltach.de suitable current timetables of the local public transport system Alpirsbach www.alpirsbach.de Gutach Schwarzwaldbahn www.gutach-schwarzwald.de Schluchsee www.schluchsee.de of busses and trains. Bad Bellingen www.bad-bellingen.de Gutach i. Br. www.gutach.de Schömberg www.schoemberg.de Quick and easy to fi nd under: Badenweiler www.badenweiler.de Gütenbach www.guetenbach.de Schonach www.schonach.de Bad Herrenalb www.badherrenalb.de Haslach i. K. www.haslach.de Schönau www.schoenau-im-schwarzwald.de