Schiltach: Half-timbered houses, guided tours and culture

If you’re looking for a hotel in Schiltach, you can tailor your stay to specific interests: guided tours about rafting and half-timbered houses, a market for creative crafts, local history at the museum or a rafting competition each offer a different focus. Consider whether you’d like to plan your visit around a particular date or whether you’re mainly interested in the town’s themes.

Guided tours and events in Schiltach

In Schiltach, you can take themed guided tours about rafting and half-timbered houses, as well as theatrical guided tours. The themed tours focus on rafting or the town’s half-timbered houses; the theatrical tour is a different format. This lets you choose between a particular theme and a tour with a theatrical element. If you’re planning to take a tour, check in advance which dates are available during your stay.

The market for creative crafts is a special event in the annual calendar. It takes place every year on the last Sunday in April in a historic setting. As the date may change, it’s a good idea to check the date before planning your trip around it. The market therefore offers a different basis for planning than the themed guided tours: here, the focus is on a recurring event day.

Museum am Markt and rafting competition

The permanent exhibition at the Museum am Markt tells the story of the Schiltach Devil, shares information about the town’s half-timbered houses and explores its transformation into a modern industrial town. These three themes take visitors from a local tale to the town’s architecture and its industrial development. The exhibition thus offers a historical perspective that extends beyond a single building or one period in the town’s history.

At Anni’s Black Forest Mystery, participants in Schiltach compete against children from the past in a rafting competition. Unlike a themed guided tour, this activity focuses on competition. If you’d like to include it in your plans, ask the Schiltach Tourist Information in advance about its availability.

Culture in the wider destination of Rottweil

The wider destination of Rottweil also has its own cultural attractions. The Unteres Bohrhaus Salt Museum presents salt production in its original buildings, with original equipment, a waterwheel and two brine pumps. It explains the history and significance of the former Royal Salt Works of Wilhelmshall, described as Rottweil’s oldest industrial enterprise. While the Museum am Markt covers Schiltach’s transformation into a modern industrial town, the focus here is on Rottweil’s former salt works.

At the Dominican Museum, visitors of all ages can try on a Roman wool tunic, chain mail, a Roman soldier’s helmet or shield, and a Roman rider’s saddle. The availability of these hands-on activities may change; check before your visit. The “Roman Rottweil – Arae Flaviae” section takes visitors through a day in Roman Rottweil on August 4, 186 AD: from the Forum in the morning through public and private engagements to a feast in the evening. Reconstructions and interactive areas complement the exhibition.

Along the Roman Path in Rottweil’s old town, information boards provide details about key points in the former Roman city. The route thus offers another perspective on Rottweil’s past. The Test Tower offers a look at technology: modern elevators are tested and certified in twelve shafts, with travel speeds of up to 18 meters per second.

For public transport to the Test Tower, visitor information describes a route from Rottweil station: bus 5011 on weekdays and a dial-a-ride bus on Saturdays and Sundays. Check the details before travelling, as transport information may change. The Rottweil Fools’ Parade is another recurring annual event: it starts behind the Black Gate on Shrove Monday when the clock strikes 8 a.m.; the exact dates vary each year.

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