Freiburg im Breisgau Off The Beaten Path

Here you can just relax after your trip through town, buying some souvenirs connected to the M?nster or just take a quick cup of coffee or tea.

This place was originally the "M?nsterbauh?tte", where craftmen and artists built things to repair the M?nster. Today it is used as a place where you can watch a film about the M?nster (history, art, function) or book M?nster guided trips in small groups (special wishes accepted) or the regular ones (see "must see tip" M?nster).

In addition you can read and buy books about Christianity here or just have a talk with nice people about what bothers you.
I like this place, and I enjoy buying postcards there :)

C-Punkt is "left behind" M?nster seen from M?nster main entrance (behind the Wine tasting house) .

Film: 30 mins, shown Mon to Fri 15:30 ... groups with more than eight reserve in advance: 0,50 EUR kids, 1 EUR adults
General opening hours: Mon to Fri 10:00 - 18:00, Sat 10:00-14:00

The archive of the archdiocese moved into its new building in 2002. This ugly box has won several prizes for its architecture. From the point of view of a user, however, I heartily disagree with those juries. The reading hall is below the magazines on the first floor with windows facing North (good) but not enough daylight. It is rather shadowy and you sit and work in that mix of natural and artificial light which overstrains the eyes quickly. Besides it is too small for the average number of users and the chairs are terribly uncomfortable. The readerprinter workplaces are in the big lobby where any noise echoes and everyone runs along.

Practical hints for archive users and genealogy research: The archive preserves the documents of the archdiocese and its precedessors and also microfilm copies of (close to) all 1200 parishes in the archdiocese, thus is the place to go for genealogy research. The parishes are instructed not to allow insight into the original church registers any more but to send researchers to Freiburg, in order to protect the sensitive originals.
If you plan to use the archive for your own research, contact them first by letter or e-mail and describe your project. Address: Address data here. Writing in English ought to work, although their website is in German only. For genealogy research you need to make a reservation since there are only five readerprinter workplaces and lots of request. The website states you have to make reservations 4-6 weeks in advance. I recommend planning at least two months in advance.

Location: Schoferstraße 3, at the foot of Schlossberg, same street as the Ordinariat, east of the Münster choir

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The old Saw mill of Jockelehof is one of the sights of Hinterzarten that most of the tourists will never find, except they find it accidentally : It is at the very end of Winterhaldenweg, a street that is a one-way through the wide landscape.
There is an artificial lake in order to store the water that was needed to drive the mill. You may see the outside of that mill and may walk around the building frely and without restrictions.
Hinterzarten is about 20 km east of Freiburg im Breisgau !

Tittisee / Neustadt is a small town in the Black Forrest, 20km north-east of Freiburg im Breisgau, and as you may see on the facade of of the Hotel Adler Post in Neustadt, this place had always been an important station of the mail-carriages going through Europe:
1516 - Tax'sche Postlinie Vienna-Brussels
1816 - Großherzogliche Poststation
1870 - Kaiserliche Reichs-Postagentur.
Tittisee is a lovely and well-known resort directely on a lake, while Neustadt is a small town close to it. In Tittisee you have to reserve your hotel well in advance, in Neustadt you will easily find a room most of the year.

Hinterzarten is one of the best-known resorts in the Black Forrest, with a famous ski-jump, plenty of traditional old hotels like Parkhotel Adler and it is just 15 km east of Freiburg im Breisgau.
When you click on my picture, you may see the catholic church of Hinterzarten behind the large meadow that is the very centre of the village, with plenty of hotels around it.
In the back you may see the ski-jump, Hinterzarten is the home of the Thoma-family - both the father and the son were famous ski-jumpers.

Hinterzarten is a great place for a vacation in summer or winter, even though my picture looks a bit sad...

Feldberg is a great place to ski in the Black Forrest and it is the highest mountain of that area with an excellent panorama-view on a clear day. Unfortunately I was there last time only in early spring, when the weather was bad and most of the snow was gone already, but the large cable-car was still working, taking up the skiers to the higher levels with a lot of snow.
Feldberg is also a great place to go hiking in summer-time.
You may get there by bus or with your own car and you will as well find plenty of hotels on the hill as well.
Feldberg is about 20km from Freiburg im Breisgau !

Don't mind the admission of 3.50 € because the museum really worth the money.
The Museum of Medieval Torture provides you with tips how to free yourself from your rival. :-) Just kidding. No, it showes you how cruel human beings were in the Middle Age.

Address: Münsterplatz 12

Take a look on my travelogue for more info

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Adolf Kornhas - Haus is the name of this lovely medieval building with a great facade and rich ornaments.
Lithographie, Stein- und Buchdruck ,(Lithography and printing of books) was the business of Adolf Kornhas and so it made sense for him to give some fine excamples of his art & profession at the facde of his house in Herrengasse # 34.
This profession is totally outdated nowadays and in that building is just an ordinary shop now, but the facade remained for our generation, who makes such work by a simply fax or photocopy-machine within 1 second...