©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd GERMANY, AUSTRIA & SWITZERLAND’S BEST TRIPS AMAZING 33 ROAD TRIPS This edition written and researched by Nicola Williams Kerry Christiani, Marc Di Duca, Catherine Le Nevez, Tom Masters, Sally O’Brien, Andrea Schulte-Peevers, Ryan Ver Berkmoes, Benedict Walker SYMBOLS IN THIS BOOK CONTENTS History & Essential Top Tips Culture Photo Link Family Walking Your Trips Tour Food & Tips from Eating Locals Drink 5 PLAN YOUR TRIP Trip Outdoors Sleeping Detour 4 Welcome to Germany, Austria & Switzerland ...................................... 7 % Telephone i Internet E English- Classic Trips .................................... 8 Number Access Language Menu h Opening Hours W Wi-Fi Access c Family- Germany, Austria & Switzerland p Parking v Vegetarian Friendly Highlights ........................................12 # n Nonsmoking Selection Pet-Friendly If You Like ...................................... 22 s a Air- Swimming Conditioning Pool Need to Know ..................................24 City Guide ....................................... 26 MAP LEGEND Germany, Austria & Switzerland Routes Trips by Region ........................................ 30 Trip Route Trip 1 Numbers Trip Detour 1 Linked Trip Linked Trip #9 Trip Stop Walk Route Walking tour TollwayTollway 2 Walking tour Freeway ON THE ROAD Trip Detour Primary Secondary RouteHighway Marker Routes Markers Tertiary place-E44 E-road network Lane [Ù97 US National Hwy M100 National network Unsealed Road VÓU5 US Interstate Hwy NORTHEASTERN Plaza/Mall Plaza/Mall Hydrographydk44 California State Hwy Steps GERMANY .........................33 Steps River/Creek Tunnel Hydrography Tunnel Intermittent River Pedestrian River/Creek Along the Baltic holderOverpass Swamp/Mangrove 1 Overpass Intermittent River Coast .......................5 Days 37 Walk Track/PathTrack/Path CanalSwamp/Mangrove Water Boundaries Canal Boundaries Dry/Salt/ Design for Life: Bauhaus International Water International Intermittent Lake 2 to VW ................. 2–4 Days 47 State/Province Dry/Salt/ State/Province Glacier Cliff Intermittent Lake mapCliff Areas Glacier Lakes & Treasures of Wall Beach 3 Population Areas Mecklenburg–Western Population Cemetery Capital (National) (Christian)Beach Pomerania ......... 2–3 Days 55 Capital (National) Capital Cemetery (Other) Capital (Christian) (State/Province) Park (State/Province)City/Large Town Cemetery (Other) Highlights of City/LargeTown/Villag Towne ForestPark 4 Saxony ................5–7 Days 63 Town/Village Urban Area Transport Forest Sportsground TransportAirport Reservation Central Germany’s Castles AirportCable Car/ Urban Area 5 & Palaces .......... 3–5 Days 73 CableFunicula Car/r Sportsground FunicularParking Parking Train/Railway Berlin & the Jewels of Eastern Train/Railway 6 Tram Brandenburg ..........4 Days 81 Tram 2 Underground UndergroundTrain Station Train Station CONTENTS Via Regia ............5–7 Days 89 Romantic 7 c Rhine ...................5–7 Days 157 German Avenues Moselle 8 Route ...................5–7 Days 101 d Valley ................. 2–4 Days 169 German Wine e Route .................. 2–4 Days 177 NORTHWESTERN GERMANY .......................121 North Sea SOUTHERN GERMANY ...189 9 Coast ...................5–7 Days 125 f Bergstrasse ....... 2–4 Days 193 a German Fairy Tale Road ........................5 Days 135 German Castle g Road ........................7 Days 201 Cologne & the b Ruhr Valley .............4 Days 149 Northeastern Germany Northwestern p33 Germany p121 Southern Germany p189 Austria p273 Switzerland p335 3 Contents cont. The Romantic SWITZERLAND ...............335 h Road ......................10 Days 213 Northern i Glass Route ............7 Days 227 t Switzerland ............3 Days 339 Lake Geneva & Western German Alpine u Switzerland ............4 Days 347 j Road ........................7 Days 235 v Geneva to k Lake Constance .....7 Days 247 Zürich .....................7 Days 355 w The Swiss Fantastic Alps .........................7 Days 365 l Road ................... 4–6 Days 255 Graubünden & x Ticino ......................5 Days 377 Schwarzwaldhoch- m strasse ............... 2–4 Days 263 AUSTRIA .........................273 ROAD TRIP Along the ESSENTIALS n Danube ............... 2–4 Days 277 Grossglockner Germany, Austria & Switzerland o Road ....................5–7 Days 285 Driving Guide................................ 390 Tyrol & Germany, Austria & Switzerland p Voralberg ............5–7 Days 295 Travel Guide ................................. 396 q Castles of Language ...................................... 404 Burgenland ........ 2–4 Days 305 Index ............................................. 408 Salzkammergut r ............................5–7 Days 313 Carinthian s Lakes ................. 2–4 Days 323 4 GERMANY, 10 German Fairy Tale Road DENMARK 10 Learn the fantasies and the AUSTRIA & horrors in the stories of the 5 DAYS #] Brothers Grimm. SWITZERLAND Flensburg #\ Binz Fall under #\ Stralsund Romantic Rhine #]Kiel 12 the spell of the castle-lined riverscape along the world- #] Rostock famous Rhine. 5–7 DAYS Lübeck #\ ^# Wismar Norddeich Hamburg ^# Szczecin #\ Jever Bremerhaven Schwerin #] #] #] #] ^# POLAND Wilmhelmshaven GGroningenro Look out for the Classic Trips stamp Leeuwarden 10 #\ Lüneburg #\ #] FG #] Bremen Oldenburg ^# W es er BERLIN lbe #_ on our favorite routes in this book. Ems E Wolfsburg #] NETHERLANDSDS #] Potsdam Osnabruck Hanover ^# Enschedens #] #] German Avenues Route #] #] Braunschweig #]Magdeburg 8 Follow one of Germany’s most Lutherstadt Münster #]Bielefeld Hildesheim Dessau- picturesque, tree-lined driving #] Rosslau #\ Wittenberg CottbusCottbu 5–7 DAYS #\ #\ routes. #] R R h 10 Brocken FG8 Nijmegen in FG e (1141m) GGelsenkirchen Göttingen #\ #] ^# #] Halle #] Duisburgg^# Dortmund Hoyerswerda Kassel ^# Krefeld #] Kellerwald- #] Leipzig ^# #]Wuppertal Edersee Freyburg#] Düsseldorf #] Solingen National Park ^#Dresden German Castle Road Erfurt Jena 8 Castles, palaces and fortresses German Avenues Leverkusen #] Gotha Gera FG 16 #] Bergisch Kellerwald #] ^# #] ^# National Park #] #] Chemnitz galore along this route from Vaalserberg Cologne Gladbach #\ Siegen Mannheim to Bayreuth. 7 DAYS (321m)R#] #] Aachen #] Bonn Zwickaukau Signal de Giessen #]Suhl Hohe Acht #\ #\ Botrange R (747m) 8 (694m) FG12 R Route ...................5–7 Days 101 #] #]Koblenz PRAGUE Buurgplaatz #_ (559m)R Frankfurt Main Wiesbaden ^# #\ FG10 #] Hanau ECH REPUBLIC #] #\ Bayreuth TheCZECHCZ Romantic REPUBLIC Road Plzeň Trier Mainz #] Darmstadt Würzburg #] 17 A ribbon of historical quaintness #] #] FG16 running through Bavaria’s 10 DAYS #\ Erlangen western reaches. Kaiserslautern Mannheim #] #] FG17 Saarbrücken Ludwigshafen #] am Rhein Regensberg FG16 #] #\ Germany Fairy Tale Regen #] Karlsruhe #\ Don #\ Grafenau orava Ingolstadt#\ au FRANCE Pforzheim (Danu M b Donau (Danube) #\ e) #] Landshut BRATISLAVA Strasbourg Kniebis e) Linz a M R b Augsburg #] Pöchlarn #_ #_ u #] ^# o #\ Ulm #\ n #] Traun#\ ........................ 135 s n Freising Road 5 Days Da VIENNA e i Gengenbach l e u ( l a e h 17 ^# R Don FG Munich #\ #\ Colmar #\ Gmunden #]Freiburg Landsberg #] R am Lech Salzburg Mulhouse Stein am FG19 #\ Feldberg (1493m) #\Rhein Rh 24 ^# ein ^# GF19 n GF R In Zürich #\ Bregenz Basel #] Zugspitze Graz St Gallen (2963m) #] 24 Mur #] oubs FG D Innsbruck R #\ Rennweg #\ Lucerne #] Grossglockner Romantic Biel-Bienne #\ Schwyz FG24 (3798m) #] Bern R D Stanserhorn Rhein#\Chur ra Klagenfurt u #\ #] Interlaken #\ FG32 Maribor Laussane R #] R steraarhorn ITALY R Schilthorn (4274m)42 Triglav c #\ (2970m) Thonon- (2864m) Rhine ...................5–7 Days 157 ne #] les-Bains Rh Locarno #\ Geneva #\ GF32 © IMAGES GETTY / KRAHMER FRANK SLOVENIA Martigny The Swiss Alps The greatest Chamonix R © IMAGES GETTY / BI YUANYUE BRUCE #\ Matterhorn VareseVarese R 32 of#\ the great outdoors: perfect The palace could star Mt Blanc (3883m) #\ mo (4807m) peaks,ComoC gorgeouso glaciers, 7 DAYS in any fairy tale. Home 11 Biella verdant valleys. #\ to Elector Wilhelm and later Kaiser Wilhelm II, the opulent complex today houses one of Germany’s best collections of Flem - German Castle ish and Dutch baroque paintings, featuring works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Jordaens, Lucas Cranach GERMANY NORTHWESTERN the Elder, Dürer and many g others in the Gemälde - Road ........................7 Days 201 galerie (painting gallery). 54p146 The Drive » Retrace your 6km drive on Wilhelmshöher Allee into Kassel and take the busy A7 right up to Göttingen. 10 OAD R TALE FAIRY GERMAN 7 Göttingen With over 30,000 students, The Romantic this historic town nestled in a corner of Lower ONE AND ONLY / SHUTTERSTOCK © SHUTTERSTOCK / ONLY AND ONE Saxony near the Hesse WHY THIS IS A border offers a good taste CLASSIC TRIP of university-town life in h Germany’s north. Since RYAN VER Road ......................10 Days 213 1734, the Georg-August BERKMOES, AUTHOR Universität has sent more than 40 Nobel Prize win Did they give us nightmares or - fantasies? Or both? Who can forget ners into the world. As hearing the wild stories of the well as all those award- winning doctors and scien Brothers Grimm as a child? Evil - stepmothers, dashing princes, fair tists, it also produced the maidens, clever animals, mean old fairy-tale-writing Brothers wolves and more. With every passing Grimm (as German lin - year, these stories become more guistic teachers). sanitised. But the real fairy tales are Be sure to stroll around German Alpine far more compelling, as you’ll learn the pleasant