What To Do In Freiburg:
Recommendations
Freiburg Hints and Recommendations - lesser known offerings and facilities of interest to visitors.
Compiled by Michael von SchneidemesserPictures, Background Info
Pictures: http://www.bilder-von-freiburg.de/freiburg_bilder.html, www.freiburg.de, www.freiburg-madison.de
Detailed Map http://www.freiburg.de/servlet/PB/menu/1143538_l2/
Webcam from Schlossberg: http://regiowebcam.de/index.php?id=1800Official Homepage City of Freiburg - Sister Cities: http://www.freiburg.de/servlet/PB/menu/1143623_l2/ sister cities
Local Newspaper: http://www.badische-zeitung.de
University Homepage: http://www.uni-freiburg.de; Junior Year Abroad: http://www.ayf.uni-freiburg.de
Tourist Info in the Altes Rathaus (which looks newer than the Neue Rathaus next door), has the most flyers, maps, and schedules
on just about every possible attraction in the region - glass blowing, wineries, mineral spring spas, Schauinsland Gondola,...Farmers' Market
©FWTM/RaachFood and Drink
The following lists more than a dozen eating and drinking establishments - all offer good to fine meals, often until late at night.
http://www.europeanbeerguide.net/freipubs.htm
Popular beer gardens listed there are Augustiner, Feierling, Martins Brau. Other outside beer gardens are
Gasthof zum Stahl on Karthaeuserstr 99 (http://www.equinoxe.de/stahl/) largest, most original, 2 km east of center, Tram 1 Stadthalle;
Hotel-Resturant Bierhaeusle, Breisgauer Straße 41, Freiburg-Lehen, 4km northwest of center, Tram 1 Paduaallee (http://bierhaeusle.de);
The Restaurant in the Neue Wiehre Bahnhof has a Boule (Petanque) court;
Brennessel, Eschholzstr. 17, 79106 Freiburg. Hours: Mon - Sat 18:00 - 01:00, Sun and public holidays 17:00 - 01:00. Free WiFi. Noisy, packed student restaurant, moderate prices (Spaghetti Bolognese Euro 2.-), large servings, standard German and a few off-beat offerings, incl. vegetarian. http://www.brennessel-freiburg.de
Jacques Weindepots, Kronenmattenstr 6 or Habsburgerstr 4 in Freiburg, let you taste any of their wines - an oenophile's haeven. http://www.wine-searcher.com/merchant/5735
The Biergarten on the Schlossberg above the Greiffenegg restaurant and close to the Schwabentor is said to be the most beautiful in Baden. It and the fancy Greiffenegg Restaurant on the Schlossberg with city view is run by Toni Schlegel, a UW MBA graduate and the president of the Freiburg-Madison Gesellschaft. http://www.greiffenegg.de
Al Fresco Dining
©FWTM/RaachAccomodations
http://www.booking.com/city/de/freiburg-im-breisgau.de.html
http://www.ferienwohnungen.de/europa/deutschland/baden-wuerttemberg/freiburg/ - vacation appartments
(A google search on "freiburg ferienwohnung" yields a dozen appartments)
http://www.deutsche-pensionen.de/pension-freiburg/verzeichnis-lage.htmlsHaus St. Benedikt, Riedbergstr 3, 79100 Freiburg-Guenterstal, 0761-1564890 is the guest house of the St Lioba monastery. Quiet, modern, generous rooms in a beautiful setting less than 2 miles from Freiburg's center. Tram 2 Wiesenweg. $20-33/person w/o breakfast.
Transportation, see Travel to Freiburg
Not so obvious things to do
Swimming: 6 public indoor pools, admission=Euro 4; 2 outdoor pools; plus quarry lakes and ponds, like Opfinger See west of Freiburg.
Musik: Zeltmusik Festival June-July, classic to pop, http://www.zmf.de .
Madison Connection: Carl-Schurz-Haus, Eisenbahnstr. 58, 3rd floor, a few steps from the Hbf/main station, offers an extensive German-American cultural program, http://www.carl-schurz-haus.de .
Rathausplatz has mosaic crests of all Freiburg Sister cities incl Madison
Madisonallee wraps around the Messe Freiburg area.
Museums:The Wentzingerhaus Stadtmuseum has detailed models of how the Muenster church was built, among other curiosities.
Learn about wine growing in the Colombi Park vineyard smack in the center of town across form the Carl-Schurz-Haus.
Museum for Modern Art
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Climb the tower of the Muenster cathedral via narrow inside circular stairs.
Food and drink: Currywurst/sausage and Doenner Kebab fast foods, Wildschwein/wild boar venison entre, Bionade, Rivella soft drinks.
Guess the age of the Schwabentor and Martinstor.
Walk up to the Greiffenegg, or take its elevators, from the Schwabentorplatz for a close-up view of Freiburg.
Take a bike on the train to Hinterzarten or Titisee, then ride back to Freiburg, or rent one-way; info: Mobile and Wiehre Bahnhof Reise Center.
The major highway B31 is extremely busy and without a shoulder. Follow instead the hiking/biking signs, unfortunately all with some initial uphills:
Hinterzarten station - Breitenau (a long, slow rise) -Thurner - Falkenhof - Buchenbach ~ Freiburg; or
Hinterzarten station - Alpersbach (part of 3-Seen-Radwanderweg/3-Lakes Bikepath) - Rinken - Zastler (long, steep descent) - Oberried ~Freiburg; or
Titisee or Baerental stations - Feuerwehrheim - Loeffelschmiede - Raimatishof - Rinken - Zastler - Oberried ~ Freiburg.
Lovely towns nearby and reachable by train: Staufen, Villingen, Rottweil, the latter two with little WWII damage,
Para- and Hanggliding, http://www.skytec.de has half-day familiarity lessons/Schnuppertag in the nearby Glottertal..
Enter any local government office where the hallways are often decorated with historic pictures, stories and maps of Freiburg.Hiking trips around Freiburg and in the Black Forest- Links in German
Environment/Umwelt
Technisches Rathaus provides services and info locally, google 'Technisches Rathaus Freiburg'.
Fraunhofer Institut für Solare Energiesysteme ISE, http://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/
Vauban
Solarsiedlung
Solar Community Schlierberg
Madison-Freiburg Sister City Committee
Office of the Mayor
City-County Building, Room 403
210 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd
Madison, WI 53703
