Summer Mountain funicular
From the Uhlandplatz in the center of Bad Wildbad, in the Black Forest, there is a funicular railway that goes up to the top of the nearby Sommerberg or Summer Read More …
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Rossini in Wildbad
One of the mysteries of operatic history is why the composer Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868) abruptly stopped composing in 1829 at the age of 37, when he was at Read More …
The S6 to Bad Wildbad
Wildbad has had a railway line since 1869, when the Enz Valley Railway was built to bring the rich and the powerful up from Pforzheim to the Wildbad spa. In Read More …
What’s so bad about it?
A glance at a map of Germany will reveal that there are hundreds of place names that start with the word “Bad”, and you have probably guessed that this does Read More …