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 Mountain. At the top of the Sommerberg there are about a dozen hotels, cafés and restaurants, and also some places Read More …
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 the height of his powers and had just had a huge success with his opera Wilhelm Tell. Since he was Read More …
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 the 1990s the German ex-monopolist railway DB wanted to shut this line down, but then it was leased by the Read More …
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 not mean all these places are bad in the sense of awful or terrible. The German word Bad means “bath”, Read More …