Bad Saulgau: City History and Nature Trails

Bad Saulgau offers a range of options for a stay: local history, themed guided tours and trails through natural and moorland landscapes. If you’re looking for a hotel in Bad Saulgau, you can plan your stay around whether you’d rather explore the old town, water and nature themes, or longer trails. The offerings also vary in length and how they present their subjects.

City History and Old Town

The Bad Saulgau City Museum presents local history from the Celtic period to the post-war era. Documents, exhibits and audiovisual media also help explain the history and significance of local customs. This covers both historical developments and specific evidence and local traditions.

The classic city tour takes you through the historic old town and introduces more than 1,200 years of city history. A dedicated family tour explores the old town through stories, small tasks and exciting places for children and adults to discover. While the classic tour traces the city’s long history, the family tour focuses on discovering and taking part together.

The Church of St. Mark, a monastery and parish church, is also a spiritual place for pilgrims and visitors. Its architecture and history, as well as the symbolism of faith, invite you to pause and reflect. The church thus adds a religious perspective to the city’s historical themes.

Trails Through Nature and the Landscape

The 43-kilometre Georundweg is suitable for hiking and cycling. Information boards provide insights into the history of the Earth, landscape formation, local soils, and flora and fauna. The trail starts at Bad Saulgau’s market square, where you’ll find the first information board with an overview map. Numerous parking spaces and car parks are available in Bad Saulgau for visitors to the Georundweg.

A shorter circular trail runs through Braunenweiler, a district of Bad Saulgau: the Nature and History Trail, created in 2024, is about 8.7 kilometres long and largely accessible. Several stops along the trail describe nature and history. The two circular trails therefore differ in both length and subject matter: the Georundweg focuses on geological and ecological connections, while the Braunenweiler trail explores nature and local history.

The Booser-Musbacher Ried landscape and nature conservation area has five hiking trails ranging from 2.2 to 5 kilometres. They lead through a moorland landscape of meadows, moors and woodland. The area covers around 343 hectares, has been protected since 1991, and approximately half of it lies within the municipality of Bad Saulgau. The different trail lengths offer a practical guide if you’d like to explore the landscape on a shorter or longer circular route.

Water and Nature Learning

The Water Theme and Experience Trail in and around Bad Saulgau offers an accessible way to explore the waterways via wooden boardwalks and well-maintained paths. Nine information boards along the trail explain life in and around the water. Visitors who enjoy combining nature with learning can also visit the InfoPunkt at the NaturThemenPark Bad Saulgau: it offers practical insights into local wildlife and plants, and features, among other things, a beaver on display whose fur visitors can touch.

The NaturThemenPark offers ACTIVE tours, CREATIVE tours and specialist guided tours for children, adults and professional audiences. They combine learning, hands-on experiences and playful discoveries. The adult tour “Water – From the Thermal Baths to the Stream” follows the journey of Bad Saulgau’s thermal water from its source, through its use, and back to nature. As the availability of this tour may change, check whether it is being offered before making plans.

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