Schiltach offers several clearly distinct themes to consider when planning your trip: rafting, half-timbered houses, town history and creative crafts. Themed town tours, the permanent exhibition at the Museum am Markt and a recurring arts and crafts market each offer a different focus. This means you can first decide whether a guided tour, an exhibition topic or a specific event date should determine your trip. If you do not want to settle on a theme yet, you can view these offerings as different ways to explore the town rather than combining them into a single sightseeing route.
Guided tours and a playful approach to rafting
In Schiltach, you can take themed town tours about rafting and half-timbered houses, as well as theatrical town tours. The themes give you a clear choice: would you like to focus on rafting and half-timbered houses, or experience a town tour in theatrical form? Check the current dates for your chosen tour in advance. As part of Anni’s Black Forest Mystery, participants compete against children from days gone by in a rafting contest; confirm the availability of this activity with the Schiltach Tourist Information Office. The rafting tour and the contest both focus on rafting, but describe different ways to visit: the tour focuses on its particular theme, while Anni’s activity centers on the contest. This can help you decide which of these two descriptions better matches your interests.
Market and museum: different focuses
A recurring spring event takes place in Schiltach’s historic setting: a creative arts and crafts market is held every year on the last Sunday in April. Since the date pattern may change, check the date of the relevant edition before planning your trip around it. The Museum am Markt offers a different focus. Its permanent exhibition tells the story of the Schiltach Devil, shares information about the town’s half-timbered houses and explores its transformation into a modern industrial town. Thus, a market held on a seasonal date and an exhibition covering several historical and urban themes sit side by side. When planning, it is worth weighing a possible market date against your interest in the exhibition: the market ties your trip to a specific date, while the exhibition brings together the story of the Schiltach Devil, half-timbered houses and the town’s transformation into an industrial town.
More topics in the wider travel destination of Rottweil
The wider travel destination of Rottweil offers a different range of topics. The Unteres Bohrhaus Saltworks Museum presents salt production in its original buildings, with original equipment, a waterwheel and two brine pumps. It explains the history and significance of the former Royal Wilhelmshall Saltworks, described as Rottweil’s oldest industrial enterprise. The focus here is on a former industry and its equipment—a different way of exploring the area from Schiltach’s half-timbered houses and rafting.
At the Dominican Museum, visitors of all ages can try on a Roman wool tunic and chain mail, and try out a Roman soldier’s helmet or shield and a Roman rider’s saddle. Check the current availability of this hands-on activity before your visit. The “Roman Rottweil – Arae Flaviae” section takes you through a day in Roman Rottweil on 4 August 186 AD: from the forum in the morning through public and private appointments to the evening feast. Reconstructions and interactive areas complement the exhibition.
The Test Tower offers a technical focus: modern elevators are tested and certified in 12 shafts, at speeds of up to 18 meters per second. For travel by public transport from Rottweil station to the Test Tower, visitor information lists bus 5011 on weekdays and a request bus on Saturdays and Sundays. Transport details may change; check the connection before you travel.
Discover more destinations: Schenkenzell, Schramberg, Wellendingen, Zimmern ob Rottweil, Eschbronn, Hardt, Oberndorf am Neckar, Deißlingen.
Go to the overview of the wider destination: Rottweil.
