Lauterbach: Hiking, Views and History
Accommodation in Lauterbach
Lauterbach offers several hiking trails of distinctly different lengths and elevation gains, as well as a themed route, viewpoints and historic buildings. If you are considering the town as a destination for a hotel stay, the landscape and local history can be among your areas of interest, alongside your choice of route. The differences below offer a concrete starting point as you consider which aspects of Lauterbach might suit your stay.
Compare hiking trails by length and theme
The Lauterbacher Wandersteig is 35 kilometres long and climbs more than 1,200 metres. It passes small streams, wet meadows, biotopes and a raised bog, bringing together different types of landscape along the route. The Lauterbacher Hochtalrunde is nine kilometres long, climbs 236 metres and is rated easy. The Wandersteig is therefore considerably longer; the Hochtalrunde also has a stated difficulty rating.
The AugenBlick-Runde Lauterbach starts at the car park by Lauterbach cemetery. It runs over the Winterberg, past RainlebĂĽhl towards MĂĽckenloch, and through woods and meadows. This round therefore has both a specific starting point and named locations along its route.
The Planetenweg is also one of Lauterbach’s hiking trails, but it has a thematic focus. At the locations of the planets, information boards explain facts about the respective planets, as well as a brief account of their history and the origins of their names. This gives the trail a different emphasis from the routes described by length and elevation gain: here, the focus is on the planets and the origins of their names.
Landscape and views
The AugenBlick Lauterbach viewpoint on the GĂĽntersberg offers views as far as Hohenzollern Castle. The Sulzbachtal landscape conservation area lies north of Lauterbach. This protected high valley in the central Black Forest reaches an altitude of up to 900 metres. A named viewpoint and a protected high valley thus offer two different ways to experience the landscape.
Building history in Lauterbach
The Gedächtnishaus was built in its present form in 1923/24 to designs by Stuttgart architect Professor Bonatz. The observation tower was raised to 23.8 metres, and a hiking lodge was added. The first mountain chapel has a different building history: Dr Ludwig Stemmer, a doctor and priest, built it in 1890 on a then-bare rocky outcrop high above the Lauterbach valley, using rough, unhewn tree trunks. The two buildings thus represent different periods and construction methods: on the one hand, an architect’s design and the raising of the observation tower; on the other, an early chapel built from unhewn logs.
Mountain biking route
The 450-kilometre “Bike-Crossing-Schwarzwald” mountain biking route passes through the Sulzbachtal and over the Fohrenbühl. The distance given refers to the route as a whole. Check the latest route information before setting out.
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