Wies: Church, Hiking Trails and Forest Landscape
Accommodation in Wies
Wies offers several points of interest for your trip: a Protestant church with a precisely specified construction period, a wooded valley landscape and various hiking trails. If you are looking for a hotel in Wies, these topics can help you choose how to explore the area during your stay, based on your interests.
Protestant Church and Forest Landscape in Wies
The Protestant church in Wies was built between 1774 and 1777. Its rectangular design includes a gallery and a three-storey tower. The church also houses a historic organ, which is a listed monument. The construction period, basic form and furnishings give the church a clearly defined architectural profile.
Wies lies in a wooded setting where the Blauen-Hochwildsberg ridge, the Köhlgarten-Hochblauen massif and the Kleine Wiesental basin meet. The Köhlgartenwiese stream flows through a broad valley that widens around Wies. The forests on the surrounding slopes include beech and mixed fir forests. Wies therefore brings together different themes: the church’s architecture and a landscape shaped by its valley, flowing waters and wooded slopes.
Hiking Trails with Different Highlights
The Sagenweg connects Tegernau with Wies and offers a themed hiking experience, with letter stations along the route. Its listed route details are 10.2 kilometres in length and 470 metres of elevation gain. A Wies–Stockmatt hike is also mentioned. It is rated as easy and is also suitable for pushchairs. The starting point for the Grusiloch circular trail is specified: it begins at the Lipple hiking car park.
The trails differ in the information available to help you plan: for the Sagenweg, the focus is on its theme and the connection between Tegernau and Wies; for the Wies–Stockmatt hike, it is on the distance, elevation gain and rating. Lipple is given as the starting point for the Grusiloch circular trail. Check trail conditions and accessibility locally before setting out.
More Highlights in the Wider Kleine Wiesental Destination
The wider Kleine Wiesental destination has additional natural and historical highlights. The pollarded beech in Neuenweg is very old and has grown very wide. Nonnenmattweiher lies at an altitude of 913 metres and is one of the highest-standing bodies of still water in the Black Forest. The lake was artificially dammed in the early 18th century. A section of the peat-covered lake bed then broke away and formed a floating peat island.
Several sphagnum moss species grow on the peat island, along with hare’s-tail cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum), cranberry (Vacinium oxycoccos) and round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia). The plants present may vary seasonally. The lake’s elevation, history and the distinctive form of the peat island each give Nonnenmattweiher its own point of interest in the landscape.
Church and House History in Kleine Wiesental
In 1935, Tegernau Church was described as a small “forest church” with a little bell tower. In Tegernau, the Zur Krone museum inn comprises a historic dining room with an adjoining room, an old “Chuchi” with a vaulted cellar cut into the hillside, a historic ballroom and sleeping quarters in the attic. The complex also includes a “Schisshüsli” (outhouse) dating from 1901. The different rooms and their names make the interior furnishings a historical topic in their own right in the wider Kleine Wiesental destination.
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