Discover Denzlingen
Accommodation in Denzlingen
Denzlingen combines historic sites, museums, trail options and a railway station where two rail lines meet. When planning a hotel stay, you can weigh up whether local history, collections, nature and leisure activities, or rail connections are most important for your trip. This makes it easy to assess the destination based on the things that interest you during your stay.
Historic Sites and Townscape
The Stork Tower is the former Church of St. Michael in the old village centre in Denzlingen’s Unterdorf district. Frescoes and paintings by Theodor Zeller adorn the tower. Its former function as a church and its frescoes give it its historic character. Storks have nested at the Stork Tower again since 1993, also linking the site with nature.
On Mauracher Berg, the ruins of St. Severin’s Church have a door arch bearing the year 1497 on their surviving Gothic portal. The date places the ruins in their historical context and gives them a different character from the story of the Stork Tower. In the Oberdorf district, the Sackträger Fountain is right beside the Glotter. This sandstone ensemble, known as the “Sackträger Fountain,” recalls former mills and was created in 1974 by Breisach artist Helmut Lutz.
The Glotter flows through Denzlingen from east to west and is crossed by historic bridges. The river, bridges and fountain beside the Glotter connect different aspects of the townscape with the area’s former milling history.
Museums and Everyday History
Heimethues is a museum featuring the Otto Raupp Room and a collection of agricultural equipment. Its address is Hauptstraße 76. The local history museum showcases traditional local crafts and Denzlingen’s cigar manufacturing. It also features kitchen and bedroom furnishings, household equipment, and Denzlingen costumes and uniforms. The collection thus ranges from crafts and manufacturing to domestic life and clothing.
Trails, Leisure and Getting Your Bearings
The ruins of St. Severin’s Chapel on Mauracher Berg are a popular destination for excursions and are used as a barbecue area in green surroundings in summer. The “Follow the Trails – Discover Denzlingen” project complements the exploration of historic buildings with interactive information boards featuring QR codes. The boards provide information on subjects including geological formations, forest use and the church ruins on Mauracher Berg.
Denzlingen has numerous cycling and hiking trails, ranging from the Kaiserstuhl to the Black Forest. Another local leisure spot is the forest barbecue area in Einbollen, which has a playground. A weekly market is held at the Kohlerhof in Denzlingen. If rail travel is part of your plans, the railway station is another useful landmark: the Rhine Valley Railway and the Elz Valley Railway meet there.
Regional Perspective: The Wider Destination of Emmendingen
The wider destination of Emmendingen’s district has 900 km of cycle touring routes, including 250 km of signposted routes. The district also has 800 km of hiking trails and walking tours. These figures describe the wider region and refer to the district as a whole, not Denzlingen alone. This helps you distinguish the local trail options from the larger cycling and hiking networks in the destination of Emmendingen.
Discover more destinations: Rheinhausen, Kenzingen, Bahlingen, Vörstetten, Weisweil, Simonswald, Teningen, Wyhl Am Kaiserstuhl
For the wider travel overview: Emmendingen.
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