Old towns of southwest Germany

[u/Highlandermichel]

Schiltach

Ettenheim

Rosenfeld

Ettlingen

Karlsruhe-Durlach

Freudenstadt

Fridingen

Riedlingen

Bad Waldsee

Mengen

Mühlheim (Donau)

Meßkirch

My new hobby: explore my home region with an e-bike and an analog camera to find and capture beautiful places. Here are some photos of historic small towns from April to June 2025.

[u/Webbaard]

Very nice. Any change to visit:

Tuttlingen, Donauschingen, Beuron, Sigmaringen, Hundersingen, Heuneburg, Lichtenstein, Hochdorf, Esslingen,

All places on my "to visit" map around the schwarzwald that I still need to check out.

[u/Highlandermichel → u/Webbaard]

I've been to Tuttlingen, Donaueschingen, Beuron, Sigmaringen and Esslingen without the camera I use now.

Esslingen is worth a visit, it has a relatively large and well preserved old town.

Sigmaringen is smaller, but also nice.

Beuron is a village, the abbey and the surrounding landscape are the main attractions.

In Donaueschingen, it's the residential castle with its park. There are some old houses, but no coherent old town.

Tuttlingen has no historic centre, its main positive aspect is the location at the entrance to the Upper Danube valley.

Some more beautiful towns in the region that I have to revisit with the camera: Calw, Altensteig, Herrenberg, Gengenbach, Staufen im Breisgau, Engen.

[u/Webbaard → u/Highlandermichel]

Aah that's great info, thanks. Keep It up

[u/Last_Jellyfish_2431]

E stiller Friede ist drom her, wie wenn-s d'a äll Tag Sonntig wär! So lieb ist älles ond vertraut, als häb-s dr Herrgott z-seme baut.

[u/rug_muncher_69]

I'm so lucky to live here

[u/ScientistFit6451]

Looks very similar to Eastern Swiss architecture

[u/FunkyFreshJayPi → u/ScientistFit6451]

I mean if you travel north from eastern Switzerland you reach the southwest of Germany.

[u/ScientistFit6451 → u/FunkyFreshJayPi]

I should have specified that Eastern Swiss houses look more similar to the ones in Baden-Württemberg than they do to the houses in the region of Bern or the ones 30 kilometers south in the alps.

[u/BrodaReloaded → u/ScientistFit6451]

it's all Alemannic timber frame architecture

[u/Alan-Greenflan]

Wünderschön.

[u/PlantainApart8606]

ill probably spell it wrong,buchenbraun?i lived there almost a year.oh,kinda southeast of stuttgart.

[u/Highlandermichel → u/PlantainApart8606]

Do you mean Büchenbronn? That would be northwest of Stuttgart.

[u/PlantainApart8606 → u/Highlandermichel]

thats why i said southeast.i know of that place but no.the one i am thinking of is near something on the fils i think.i lived there for about a year.

[u/Highlandermichel → u/PlantainApart8606]

I found it. There are two villages called Büchenbronn, one belongs to the city of Pforzheim, the other to Ebersbach an der Fils. This is probably the one you meant.

[u/PlantainApart8606 → u/Highlandermichel]

yeah,thats the one!i guess that means you have not been there.we had a band back in the 70s.we lived there,one brit and two americans,we made the news there.there were others mostly americans.big drug bust.hey maybe theres a news story,i think there was.a big back story.well i never made it back but maybe,maybe..oh thanks for the memories!

[u/PlantainApart8606 → u/Highlandermichel]

i sometimes worked in a music store in stuttgart doing electronic repairs mostly.my spelling will be wrong.at the time it was located in kleinerschlossplatz,modern music was the name of the store.i loved stuttgart!

[u/ThinJournalist4415]

With German towns like this, we’re a lot rebuilt after the war or did a lot survive? Also, do they need specialist construction teams like with thatched and regency architecture here in the UK?

[u/Highlandermichel → u/ThinJournalist4415]

Those are the towns that survived. Most destroyed towns were rebuilt in a cheap and functional (and ugly) way because there was not enough time and money available to reconstruct them. Reconstruction projects usually started much later and are mostly limited to larger cities (like Frankfurt, Hildesheim or Potsdam).

[u/Britwill]

Where is everyone?

[u/Highlandermichel → u/Britwill]

In the busy streets that I didn't photograph because there were too many people in the way.

[u/Britwill → u/Highlandermichel]

A likely story. What did you do with them?!?

[u/mnc84]

Honestly, in my opinion, old cities and old buildings look more beautiful than the current ones.

[u/DrDMango]

Looks a little French. Makes sense.

[u/Substantial_Lab6367 → u/DrDMango]

how? you mean that the Alsace looks german considering that the Alsace and Strasburg were stolen from the german speaking parts of the HRE thus germany in 1648, 1681 and 1789

[u/-Blackspell- → u/DrDMango]

Nothing about this looks french.

[u/winrix1]

Looks really pretty, though I'm not sure I'd like to live there.

[u/Highlandermichel → u/winrix1]

To be honest: I also wouldn't want to live in any of those towns except Freudenstadt, not because of the architecture, but because of the climate. In view of the current heat wave, I'm really glad to live in the High Black Forest where the heat isn't as brutal as in the lowlands.