The best mountain hikes in Karlsbad

Resembles an open-air museum. You can read all sorts of things about a legal dispute of the owner of this mill on large banners and collected newspaper clippings. If you want to read everything, you need to bring more time than I had.

Below this spot, an aircraft crashed on November 1, 1945, shortly after the end of the war. In the most severe air disaster ever to occur in our region, 26 American military personnel lost their lives. The aircraft was a Douglas C-47 (DC3) transport aircraft in its military version. It was put into service a year earlier and participated in "D-Day", the Normandy invasion, as a paratrooper transport. It had space for up to 32 people and was also known as a "raisin bomber" during the Berlin Airlift. On the day of the accident, 4 crew members and 26 U.S. Air Force soldiers were on board. They had been on vacation in London and were supposed to return to their units at the Oberschleißheim Air Force Base near Munich. Despite bad weather over the mainland, the 23-year-old pilot and his 22-year-old navigator decided to fly. Shortly after takeoff, the pilot had to climb above the cloud cover due to dense cloudiness and continue the flight using instruments. According to the navigator's calculations, a point near Augsburg should have been reached after 3 hours of flight, where the pilot could descend below the cloud cover and begin the approach using visual orientation. Due to strong headwinds, the calculated position was missed by more than 200 km. Consequently, the cloud cover was descended through north of Karlsruhe, and the navigator lost orientation. They followed the Rhine in a southwesterly direction until near Wintersdorf, a 90-degree correction was made to the original course towards Munich. The DC3 thus steered directly towards the 693-meter-high Bernstein. The pilot and navigator continued to try to determine the correct position from low altitude, which became increasingly difficult due to the approaching fog. Despite the dense fog, the silhouette of the aircraft was recognizable when flying over Michelbach. Around 4:30 PM, the aircraft crashed at an altitude of 620 meters, where it broke into several pieces and went up in flames after explosions. Many victims died because help arrived too late. That help arrived at all four hours after the accident is thanks to three survivors who, despite severe injuries, made their way to Sulzbach and Bernbach. Until now, only rumors had surrounded this event, and it eventually fell into oblivion.

Hut with good weather protection

Small bridge over the Alb as a connection between Schweizer Wiese and the Falkensteinfelsen, as well as a beautiful view of the water.

The spa park in the heart of the city is characterized by its historic trees and spacious green spaces, making it a place to recharge your batteries. Its design offers two atmospheres: a "classic" one with cultivated park meadows, and a "wildly romantic" one with blooming riverside and forest meadows. The two sections are connected by bridges over the renaturalized Alb River.

A hall church with a recessed, Gothic choir with a three-eighth-window end. The church hall has a barrel-vaulted wooden ceiling with a three-part trefoil arch. The porch (Paradise) was built around 1200, now a ruin. The Paradise was raised in 1462 (tracery), the choir was built in 1478, and the tower and nave were built in 1739 (after extensive damage). Remodeled in 1903 by Heinrich Dolmetsch, painted by Wörnle, and renovated in 1987/1988.

On the facade of the former monastery administration building is the stone sculpture "Devil of Herrenalb." The sculpture was donated in 1999 by the Gernsbach artist Rolf Michels for the premiere of the medieval open-air play "The Devil of Bad Herrenalb."

The monastery tavern, probably founded in 1148, is one of the oldest inns in southern Germany. At the entrance, there's a distinctive sign featuring a dragon figure.