Mühlheim & Fridingen

Mühlheim an der Donau and Fridingen an der Donau are towns in the Tuttlingen district of Baden-Württemberg and have a population of approximately 3,600 and 3,100 respectively. They are situated at the heart of the Upper Danube Nature Park, around ten kilometres north-east of Tuttlingen. In Stetten, to the west of Mühlheim, the river Kesselbach flows into the Danube.

Mühlheim

–WGS84       48° 1‘ 50“ N, 8° 53‘ 9“ E

48.030556°, 8.885833°

UTM   32U 491489 5319703

Fridingen

WGS84        48° 1‘ 14“ N, 8° 55‘ 58“ E

48.020556°, 8.932778°

UTM   32U 494988 5318587

The Tourism and Culture Office is the first port of call for visitors to Mühlheim:

Tourist Information at the Vorderes Schloss

Schlossstrasse 1

78570 Mühlheim/Donau

Tel.: +49 (0)7463 8903

Fax: +49 (0)7463 990 776

verkehrsamt@muehlheim-donau.de

www.muehlheim-donau.de

Opening times:

Monday, Tuesday: 8am-12 noon and 1.30pm-6pm

Wednesday: 1.30pm-4pm

Thursday: 2pm-4pm

Friday: 8am-12 noon

If the office is unattended during opening hours, please call in at the town hall.

Stadt Fridingen an der Donau

Am Kirchplatz 2

78567 Fridingen

Tel.: +49 (0)7463 8370

Fax: +49 (0)7463 83750

info@fridingen.de

http://www.fridingen.de

Whether you are looking for a private room, an inn, a guesthouse or a holiday apartment, Mühlheim and Fridingen offer a whole host of accommodation options. There are plenty of places to eat as well, including Gasthaus Krone, a traditional restaurant on Torplatz in Mühlheim whose delightful beer garden is an attraction in itself, and Gasthof Hirsch, located half way along Hauptstrasse.

All accommodation:

http://www.muehlheim-donau.de/centix/de/tourismus/unterkuenfte.html

http://www.donau-heuberg.de/centix/de/touristik/gastgeberverzeichnis/0,140.html

The upper levels of the Vorderes Schloss in Mühlheim have been converted into a museum, whose main focus is the history of the town. Its permanent exhibition explores themes from art and cultural history as well as from religious and social history. History buffs may also like to pay a visit to the church ruins on Welschenberg hill. The Church of Our Lady of Mercy was a well-known place of pilgrimage until it was pulled down in 1813. Today you can look around the impressive ruins, which are now partially roofed, and the restored church tower.

The open-air museum in Neuhausen ob Eck, about eight kilometres from Mühlheim, presents the variety of regional cultures in a 'museum village'. Around 25 different buildings have been relocated there; they retain as much of the original structures as possible and paint a vivid picture of historical architecture and life in days gone by. You can see the humble home of a labourer, a Black Forest farmhouse belonging to an affluent farmer, a weaver's house, a village smithy, a mill, a sawmill, a school, a town hall, a small village church and many more fascinating buildings. There are daily demonstrations by weavers, potters, blacksmiths and other craftspeople.

Mühlheim and Fridingen offer plenty of scope for active pursuits. As well as fishing, swimming and tennis, you can go walking on quality-certified trails and local circular routes, and enjoy bike rides on well-maintained cycle paths. Skiing and cross-country skiing are possible in winter on a floodlit slope with a ski lift. The indoor pool at Mühlheim is the perfect place to relax. In addition to a large swimming pool, it has a sauna with a quiet room and outdoor area. Fridingen has a heated outdoor pool with a giant waterslide.

The section of the Danube Gorge between Fridingen and Beuron is probably the most beautiful of all, passing through the Swabian Alb with its towering limestone cliffs. The surrounding nature conservation areas are a habitat for many rare species of birds and plants, including various orchids. The Stiegelesfels conservation area, in particular, is known for its rich diversity of colours and flowers.

Not far from Fridingen, you will find several places where the Danube sinks into the riverbed, a phenomenon known as the Danube Sink. In the summer and autumn, up to 400 litres of water per second disappear into the limestone of the Alb, before reappearing approximately 16 kilometres further on at the Aachtopf spring.

Transport

Mühlheim is located on the Danube valley train line from Donaueschingen to Ulm. It is part of the Ringzug train service connecting Mühlheim to Fridingen and Tuttlingen. Trains also occasionally run to Sigmaringen. Fridingen station was built together with the Danube valley railway in 1890. From May to October, the Nature Park Express stops here as well, as do regional trains between Ulm and Neustadt (Black Forest), providing services to Sigmaringen, Ulm and Donaueschingen every two hours and an indirect service to Freiburg im Breisgau. Mühlheim and Fridingen are served by the buses to Buchheim and Neuhausen and to Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen.

You can get to Mühlheim by car via Tuttlingen on the B523, B14 and B311. The route to Fridingen continues on the L277 (Tuttlingen – Sigmaringen) or on the L440 (Albstadt – Heudorf).

The popular Danube Cycle Route runs through Mühlheim.

The town is affiliated with the Donaubergland tourism association.