Bad Rotenfels: Spa Park, Hiking and Rotherma

Bad Rotenfels offers a range of options for planning your trip: leisure and exercise facilities in the spa park, walks towards named destinations, and the official starting point of the Murgleiter. The nearby Unimog Museum and Rotherma add to the mix. You can therefore choose between time in the park, walks, a long-distance hiking trail, and technology and sauna experiences in the broader destination of Gaggenau.

Spa Park and Walks

The spa park in Bad Rotenfels has a fitness trail, mini golf, an adventure playground, a beer garden and the Rotherma running trail. It also serves as a starting point for walks towards Ebersteinburg and the former Baden-Baden Castle. This means that leisure facilities in the park sit alongside walks from here to the two destinations mentioned.

The Murgleiter from Bad Rotenfels

Bad Rotenfels is the official starting point of the 111-kilometre Murgleiter. This long-distance hiking trail leads to the Schliffkopf near Baiersbronn and has been awarded the “Premium Trail” distinction by the German Hiking Institute. It is clearly distinct from walks starting at the spa park: this is a named long-distance hiking trail with a set starting point, destination and total length of 111 kilometres. This distinction is useful when planning your trip if you are treating a walk and a long-distance hiking route as separate activities.

Rotherma and the Unimog Museum

The outdoor areas of the Rotherma thermal baths are located in the Bad Rotenfels spa park. In the broader destination of Gaggenau, Rotherma offers an extensive range of bathing facilities as well as a sauna area of over 5,000 m² featuring a rock sauna, ice grotto and salt world. If you want to plan a visit, check the current operating status with the operator.

The nearby Unimog Museum has an interactive technical exhibition with an outdoor course, information trail and activity stations for families. In the Gaggenau area, the museum is open Tuesday to Sunday and on Easter Monday and Whit Monday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; rides on the outdoor course are available during opening hours. Check the museum’s opening hours and ride availability for your visit.

More destinations in the broader destination of Gaggenau

The well-developed network of paths in the broader destination of Gaggenau covers nearly 500 kilometres and invites visitors to take walks and longer excursions. The nearly 500 kilometres refer to this network of paths, while the 111 kilometres refer to the individual long-distance hiking trail, the Murgleiter. This helps put the two figures into perspective as different scales for planning.

Waldseebad is set in idyllic woodland in Gaggenau’s Traischbach Valley and has a history spanning almost 100 years. Another cultural landmark, the Margravial Palace of Rotenfels, is now home to the State Academy for School Art, School and Amateur Theatre; since 1995, it has once again shone in new splendour.

Michelbach Village Festival

In Michelbach, a district of Gaggenau, the local associations, together with the district council, have organised the Michelbach Village Festival every two years on the first weekend in September since 1978. The festival showcases the area’s more than 900-year history, traditions and village life in many ways, with the old half-timbered houses in the village centre providing the setting. If you want to plan your trip around the festival, check the latest dates in advance.

For the broader travel overview: Gaggenau.