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My travel in Europe:
By train in Southern Germany, 2023


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Planning for a round trip in Southern Germany:

The round trip we did in Northern Germany 2022 was exiting, now 2023 we are planning a similar train tour in Southern Germany. We have read that Germany will sell these train/bus tickets even 2023 with start in May. They will not cost 9 Euro this year but 49 Euro and last for one month. Still very cheap.

Germany use Euro so the money will not be a problem and the internet by the smartphone is free for us in EU.


An earlier visit in Southern Germany:

I visited Southern Germany already 1988 by car with friends. A great memory for me, you can follow that trip here: Germany 1988. From this and the last year's travel in Northern Germany we have got a lot of experience which we have use of now.

Souther Germany 1988

After we had driving through Sweden and Denmark we came to Germany. The Northern part we just drive through until we came to Wurzburg. Our first stop at an old town, Wurzburg, 1988.

On our new tour 2023 we will come to the third day, maybe.

Rothenburg ob der Tauber 1988, very nice memories from this town. We hope for a stop at this place even on this new trip 2023, it will be a side step from the main rail way.

Southenr Germany 1988
Souther Germany 1988

We drove the car all the way to Vienna in Austria. After that back to Germany. One of the last stops in Germany, Heidelberg. Then Denmark, Sweden and we where back home to Stockholm, was it 18 days on the roads ?


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The new trip, 2023:

An overview how we think our travels in Southern Germany will be:

If you are in hurry the map tells us the we can do this 1400 km long trip in just in 17 hours by car. We estimate it to take from 18 to 23 days, lot of time to relax and visit interesting places. For the details, see below.


The details:

When travel by train we can only follow the way where there are rails. We have started to list interesting stays along a possible trip. We plan for a three weeks travel, but if needed we can add one more week.

Route 1: Possible Stops along our trip:

Start points info map Comments
Stockholm        
Flight 2:20 h  
Karlsruhe 1 d info map must visit
Train 44 min with 1 change
Heidelberg alt 1 d info map must visit
Train 1:23 h  
Osterburken 4 min info map change
Train 53 min  
Wurzburg 1 d info map must visit, Röntgen Museum
Train 43 min  
Steinach (b Rothenburg ob der Tauber) 13 min info map change
Train 15 min  
Rothenburg ob der Tauber 2 d info map must visit or not
Ansbach   info map no

We take a flight from Stockholm to Karlsruhe. I have always thought that Karlsruhe was an boring industry town. But after we have looked at YouTube videos we found it to be very nice. Karlsruhe will be our first stay.

These are the stops we start with in our planning. These are only the big ones where there are a railway station. Between them there are a lot of nice small towns. Now we will go through all of them and see what's interesting for us. The stops as it looks for the moment:

The first part is 250 km, from 4 to 5 days.

Other places we want to visit at this route:

Place Info Map Comment
Röntgen Memorial Site info map Wurzburg

Route 2: Possible Stops along our trip:

Start points info map Comments
Rothenburg ob der Tauber   info map must visit
bus 57 min  
Dombuhl 9 min info map change
Train 46 min  
Nurnberg 2 d info map must visit
Treuchtlingen   info map no
Train 1:03 h  
Regensburg 1 d info map must visit
Train 1:25 h  
Munich 2 d info map must visit
Plattling   info map no
Landshut   info map no

The second part of our travel end in Munich. The stops as it looks for the moment:

The second part is 320 km, from 5 to 6 days.

Other places we want to visit at this route:

Place Info Map Comment
Isartor info map Munchen
Deutches Museum info map Munchen
Irish Pub info map Odeonplatz, Munchen
Englishe Garten info map Munchen
Marienplatz info map Munchen

Route 3: Possible Stops along our trip:

Start points info map Comments
Munich   info map must visit
Train 44 min  
Augsburg 1 d info map must visit
Train 1:19  
Ulm 1 d info map maybe, Ulmer Münster
Kempten   info map maybe
Memmingen   info map maybe
Train 1:05 h  
Friedrichshafen   info map must visit Zeppelin museum
Lindau 1 d info map must visit
Train 34 min  
Radolfsell am Bodensee 1 d info map must visit
Singen   info map no
Train 44 min  
Donaueschingen 8 min info map change
Train 1:30 h  
Freiburg im Breisgau   info map maybe
Train 45 min  
Offenburg 1 d info map must visit

When leaving Munich we have more than one alternative. Maybe Ulm and Augsburg are good choose for us. From Lindau we follow the lake Bodensee. We end at Offenburg near the French border. The stops as it looks for the moment:

Third part is 570 km, from 4 to 6 days.

Other places we want to visit at this route:

Place Info Map Comment
Zeppelin Museum info map Friedrichshafen
Ulmer Münster info map Ulm
Mainau info map Bodensee

Route 4: Possible Stops along our trip:

Start points info map Comments
Offenburg   info map  
Train 47 min  
Karlsruhe 39 min info map change
Train 54 min  
Mannheim 1 d info map  
Train 1:21  
Mainz 1 d info map Gutenberg Museum
Train 1:03  
Koblenz 1 d info map  
River boat    
Cochem 1 d info map  
Train 38 min  
Koblenz 1 d info map change
Train 1:34  
Cologne (Köln) 1 d info map  
Flight 2:05 h  
Stockholm        

The last part before we turn home. It follow partly the river Rhein which must be beautiful, or ? The stops as it looks for the moment:

Fourth part is 410 km, from 5 tor 6 days.

Other places we want to visit at this route:

Place Info Map Comment
Gutenberg Museum info map Mainz
Mainau info map Bodensee

Other places we want to visit outside our plan:

Place Info Map Comment
Rheinfall info map Switzerland !
Völkerschlachtdenkmal info map Leipzig
Brocken bahn info map Harz
Harz National Park info map Harz

Astronomical Observatories:

Astronomical Observatories sites

Selected observatories that are close to our route:

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