Hi,
We are flying in to Basel Mulhouse the end of Feb for 1 week.
The main reason for our visit is for my husband to see the Jim Clark memorial at Hockenheim, but also the museum at Stuttgart as well as visiting relations in Switzerland !
I was thinking of staying in Freiburg as it looks lovely ( probably a Mercure or Ibis if there is one )and is not to far from the airport.
My questions are;
Is staying Freiburg a reasonable option ? ( we don%26#39;t mind driving ).
Will the Stuttgart Museum be open this time of the year ?
Thank you in advance !
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%26gt; I was thinking of staying in Freiburg as it looks lovely
It is.
%26gt; ( probably a Mercure or Ibis if there is one )and is not to far from the airport.
Freiburg is some 100 km from the Euroairport. For easy access choose a hotel between the city centre and the autobahn. Not one into the Black Forest.
%26gt; Is staying Freiburg a reasonable option ? ( we don%26#39;t mind driving ).
It%26#39;s quite some distance to Hockenheim or Stuttgart. I would look for a place closer/between them. E.g. Heidelberg or Speyer. Or Stuttgart itself.
%26gt; Will the Stuttgart Museum be open this time of the year ?
Which museum do you mean?
The Skateboard Museum or the Fireforce Helmet Museum?
stuttgart-tourist.de/DEU/freizeit/weitere-mu��
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Hi,
sorry I forgot to mention it was the motor museum in Stuttgart that we would like to visit.
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The Mercedes Benz Museum is of course open throughout the year, closed on Mondays as are most museums in Germany. There is also the Porsche Museum, unfortunately the completion date of its new museum keeps getting postponed, this time until Autumn, but they will have only about 20 cars on display which would appeal mostly to racing and Porsche enthusiasts. On the other hand, the Mercedes museum has 160 vehicles documenting the automobiles over 120 years of history. With pre-arrangement, you can also visit their nearby motor plant during your museum visit. It%26#39;s possible also to tour the Porsche plant in the Zuffenhausen part of Stuttgart as well as Mercedes Benz%26#39;s largest assembly plant in nearby Sindelfingen. Pre-arrangement for these tours is best done through their American websites as these tours are offered as part of their European delivery program.
Besides these two museums, there is the Gottlieb-Daimler-Dedaechtnisstaette which is a reconstruction of his workshop in a park in Bad Cannstatt, and also the Gottlieb-Daimler-Birth house in nearby Schorndorf where he was born and now has a museum which has the world%26#39;s first motorcycle. The second largest auto race in the world after the Indianapolois 500, Solitude, was held on public streets to the west of Stuttgart. I%26#39;m sure some of the existing roads there were used and there are some grandstands still standing.
Besides the automotive museums, Stuttgart has many other excellent museums dealing with all kinds of topics such as the Museum am Loewentor with its collection of local dinosaur and Ice Age mammal fossils, and all kinds of creatures embedded in amber.
For further information about Stuttgart look at www.stuttgart-tourist.de or click on my name to read about all the excellent places to visit there and nearby.
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A typo, %26quot;Gottlieb-Daimler-Dedaechtnisstaette%26quot; should be %26quot;Gottlieb-Daimler-Gedaechtnisstaette%26quot;.
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Hi,
Thank you both for quick and informative response.
Stuttgart sounds excellent and may need more than a days exploration !
We would also like to explore the Black Forest as well as the 1 day visit to Hockenheim ( we don%26#39;t need to stay in that area ).
We like castles, mountains and rivers ! and don%26#39;t mind %26#39;touring%26#39;. Suggestions please as to where to stay if not Freiburg.
We could always arrange to see our Swiss relatives in Basel to save another journey.
thank you
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%26gt; We would also like to explore the Black Forest
Herefor Freiburg is a good place as the Southern Black Forest is the higher and more interesting part.
%26gt; We like castles, mountains and rivers ! and don%26#39;t mind %26#39;touring%26#39;.
Heidelberg and the Neckar Valley
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... and Heidelberg is close to Hockenheim.
Neckar valley has plenty of castles. And also cuts through the Odenwald upland. Not as high as the Black Forest but definitely not flat either.
Black Forest was settled pretty late. Thus not many castles there.
The Swabian Alb (~ parallel to the Black Forest east of it) has also some really nice castles.
http://www.schwaebischealb.de/
http://www.burg-hohenzollern.de/
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A lovely town to stay in is Tuebingen, an old college town with hilly cobblestone streets, and Hotel am Schloss is just below the castle. Two mountain ranges are nearby, the Schwaebische Alb to the east and the Black Forest to the west. For castles, what abalada has written is good, I wouldn%26#39;t miss Burg Hohenzollern. There are many others in the area, but I don%26#39;t think winter is a good time to visit most, especially the ones on mountain tops instead of along the rivers where it is warmer and there shouldn%26#39;t be any snow.
For a palace consider the one in Ludwigsburg which is Germany%26#39;s largest perfectly preserved (all original, not a 1950s rebuild like many others) Baroque palace with its tourable royal chambers, four excellent museums, extensive gardens but not very good in the winter, and two smaller associated palaces set in a deer park (several days to see it all, but at least a half day). (In www.schloesser-und-gaerten.de click on the English option.)
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Hi,
Thank you for all the help in response to previous questions.
We will definately visit Ludwigsburg Castle and Stuttgart to see the M.Benz museum etc. and also %26#39;Solitude%26#39; as my husband was there as mechanic with Jim Clark in 1963 ! which brings me to my next question -
Marcopolko mentioned that there are still some stands remaining and possibly some roads. Can you please give me directions ? ( we will be going into Stuttgart via the A81 )
Thank you.
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%26quot;%26#39;Solitude%26#39; as my husband was there as mechanic with Jim Clark in 1963 ! which brings me to my next question -
Marcopolko mentioned that there are still some stands remaining and possibly some roads. Can you please give me directions ? ( we will be going into Stuttgart via the A81 )%26quot;
The race course was around Solitude Palace on the west side of Stuttgart. Bergheimersteige, the road just to the east of the palace was certainly part of the race track, at least the hilly curvy part. I had a discussion with a friend who also lives in Stuttgart a few months ago and he had told me that some of the grandstands still exist. Possibly someone at the palace could help you with that.
The easiest way to get to Solitude is to continue on the A831 where the A81 meets the A8. This will become the B14. Do not head for Vaihingen through the tunnel but stay in the left hand lane which goes by the university and will become Wildparkstrasse. Stay on Wildparkstrasse by making a right to the overpass where it joins Rotenwaldstrasse. The Solitude exit is then the second one, the previously mentioned Bergheimersteige. While you%26#39;re there, you could also visit the palace.
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http://www.solitude-revival.org/ustx02.htm
see also -%26gt; history -%26gt; race tracks
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