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city guide","hw_hub_city_hero_h1":"Things To Do In Freiburg","hw_hub_city_hero_intro":"The sunniest city in Germany, on the edge of the Black Forest, with little streams running along the streets and a cathedral tower that took three hundred years.","hw_hub_city_hero_image":"1303680","hw_hub_city_hero_overlay":"light","hw_hub_city_hero_cta":"Where to stay | #areas\r\nWhat it costs | #money","hw_hub_city_live_stats":"1","hw_hub_city_stats":"116 m | The M\u00fcnster tower, finished around 1330\r\n1,800 | Hours of sunshine a year, the most in Germany\r\n15 km | Of B\u00e4chle, the streams running through the streets","hw_hub_city_intro_title":"Green, sunny and pressed against the Black Forest","hw_hub_city_intro_body":"Freiburg sits in the far south-west corner of Germany, closer to Basel and Colmar than to anywhere German, and it gets more sunshine than any other German city.\r\n\r\nThe B\u00e4chle are the thing everyone notices first: narrow open water channels running along the streets, fed from the river, medieval in origin and originally used for fire-fighting and livestock. Local superstition says that if you step in one accidentally you will marry a Freiburger. People do step in them constantly.\r\n\r\nThe M\u00fcnster is the cathedral, and its 116-metre openwork spire is one of the few Gothic towers actually completed in the Middle Ages. A market runs around it every morning except Sunday.\r\n\r\nThe city rebuilt itself after 1944 bombing and then spent the following decades becoming Germany's environmental showcase \u2014 the Vauban district is a car-reduced solar neighbourhood that planners visit from around the world.\r\n\r\nTwo days, and use one for the Black Forest.","hw_hub_city_facts":"Getting in | ICE from Frankfurt 2 hours. Basel 45 minutes. No useful airport of its own\r\nGetting around | Trams are excellent and cheap. Day ticket about \u20ac6\r\nCurrency | Euro\r\nThe B\u00e4chle | Open water channels in the streets. Watch your feet\r\nSchauinsland | A cable car up to 1,284 m, about \u20ac17 return\r\nGuest card | Many hostels issue a KONUS card giving free regional transport","hw_hub_city_areas_title":"Where to stay","hw_hub_city_areas_intro":"A small old town with the hills immediately behind it.","hw_hub_city_areas_map":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_zoom":"14","hw_hub_city_hostels_pins":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_live":"","hw_hub_city_areas":"Altstadt | First-timers | The old town: the M\u00fcnster, the market, the B\u00e4chle and everything within fifteen minutes. | 47.9960 | 7.8520 |  | \nSt\u00fchlinger | Value and students | West of the station: cheaper beds, student bars and a five-minute walk into the old town. | 47.9990 | 7.8400 |  | \nVauban and Wiehre | Green and residential | South: the solar district and a handsome nineteenth-century quarter, both on the tram. | 47.9770 | 7.8330 |  | ","hw_hub_city_itin_title":"How long have you got?","hw_hub_city_itin_intro":"The routes we would walk, in the order we would walk them.","hw_hub_city_itin":"","hw_hub_city_do_title":"Things to do in Freiburg","hw_hub_city_do_body":"Climb the M\u00fcnster tower, about \u20ac5 and 209 steps, for the view over the red roofs to the Black Forest and the Vosges in France. The openwork spire was completed around 1330, which makes it one of the very few Gothic towers finished in the medieval period rather than the nineteenth century.\r\n\r\nThe market around the cathedral runs every morning except Sunday and is where to buy a long red sausage in a bun, which is the correct Freiburg lunch.\r\n\r\nTake the Schauinsland cable car, about \u20ac17 return, to 1,284 metres \u2014 Germany's longest loop cable car, and from the top you can walk down through forest into the city over several hours.\r\n\r\nWalk the B\u00e4chle and try not to step in one. They run for about fifteen kilometres through the old town and children float boats in them.\r\n\r\nThe Vauban district, reachable by tram, is a genuinely interesting piece of urban planning \u2014 solar houses, almost no parking, and a design that planners come from abroad to study.","hw_hub_city_do_points":"M\u00fcnster tower | About \u20ac5 and 209 steps, to a medieval spire\r\nSchauinsland cable car | About \u20ac17 return, to 1,284 m\r\nThe cathedral market | Every morning but Sunday. Buy the long sausage\r\nVauban | Free. A solar district planners travel to see","hw_hub_city_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_city_do_more":"All things to do in Freiburg","hw_hub_city_free_title":"Free things to do in Freiburg","hw_hub_city_free_body":"The B\u00e4chle, the old town and the M\u00fcnster interior are all free \u2014 only the tower charges.\r\n\r\nThe Schlossberg, the hill immediately above the old town, is free to climb and has a lookout tower at the top with the city below and the Black Forest behind.\r\n\r\nThe market around the cathedral is free to walk through and is the best hour in the city.\r\n\r\nVauban and the Rieselfeld eco-districts are free to visit and are quietly fascinating if urban planning interests you at all.\r\n\r\nThe Black Forest trails start at the edge of the city and are free \u2014 and many hostels issue a KONUS guest card giving free regional transport across the whole Black Forest area, which is worth asking about because it turns an expensive day into a free one.","hw_hub_city_free_points":"The Schlossberg | Free hill climb straight from the old town\r\nThe cathedral market | Free to walk, every morning but Sunday\r\nKONUS guest card | Free regional transport. Ask your hostel\r\nBlack Forest trails | Starting at the edge of the city","hw_hub_city_free_tag":"free-things-to-do","hw_hub_city_free_more":"All free things to do in Freiburg","hw_hub_city_food_title":"Eating and drinking in Freiburg","hw_hub_city_food_body":"Baden food, which is the lightest of the German regional traditions and heavily influenced by Alsace across the border. Flammkuchen \u2014 thin dough with cream, onion and bacon \u2014 is \u20ac10 to \u20ac15 and shareable.\r\n\r\nThe Lange Rote is the local sausage: a long thin red sausage in a small bun with mustard, sold from the cathedral market stalls for \u20ac4 to \u20ac5 and eaten standing.\r\n\r\nBlack Forest g\u00e2teau is from here and the real version is heavy on kirsch and light on everything the export version does.\r\n\r\nBaden wine is excellent and under-appreciated \u2014 Sp\u00e4tburgunder, the German name for Pinot Noir, grows well on the Kaiserstuhl volcanic hills just west of the city. A glass is \u20ac4.50 to \u20ac6.50.\r\n\r\nA restaurant main is \u20ac13 to \u20ac19 and a beer \u20ac4 to \u20ac5.50.","hw_hub_city_food_points":"Lange Rote | \u20ac4\u20135 from the cathedral market. Eat it standing\r\nFlammkuchen | \u20ac10\u201315 and made for sharing\r\nBaden Sp\u00e4tburgunder | \u20ac4.50\u20136.50 a glass, from the hills west of town\r\nReal Black Forest g\u00e2teau | Heavier on kirsch than the export version","hw_hub_city_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_city_food_more":"All food guides for Freiburg","hw_hub_city_nightlife_title":"Going out in Freiburg","hw_hub_city_nightlife_body":"Student-driven and relaxed. The university has about 25,000 students in a city of 230,000, and term time from October to July is when the bars are full.\r\n\r\nThe old town has the pubs and wine bars, and St\u00fchlinger west of the station has the cheaper student places.\r\n\r\nA beer is \u20ac4 to \u20ac5.50, wine \u20ac4.50 to \u20ac6.50 and cocktails \u20ac8 to \u20ac12.\r\n\r\nFreiburg drinks outside whenever the weather allows, which given the sunshine figures is most of the year \u2014 the Augustinerplatz steps fill with people and bottles on any warm evening, which is free and is the local default.\r\n\r\nThere is a small club scene but nobody travels here for it. This is a city for a long evening outdoors and an early start into the hills.","hw_hub_city_nightlife_points":"Student-driven | 25,000 of them, October to July\r\nAugustinerplatz | Where the city drinks outside, free\r\nPrices | Beer \u20ac4\u20135.50, cocktails \u20ac8\u201312\r\nEarly starts | The hills are the point, not the nightclubs","hw_hub_city_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_city_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for Freiburg","hw_hub_city_transport_title":"Getting around Freiburg","hw_hub_city_transport_body":"Trams are frequent and cover everything, with a day ticket around \u20ac6. The old town is pedestrianised and walkable in fifteen minutes.\r\n\r\nAsk your accommodation about the KONUS guest card. Most hosts in the Black Forest region issue it free to overnight guests and it gives unlimited free regional transport across the whole area for the length of your stay \u2014 it is one of the best deals in German tourism and plenty of visitors never hear about it.\r\n\r\nFreiburg is among the best cycling cities in Germany, with a dense separated network and hire at \u20ac10 to \u20ac15 a day.\r\n\r\nBasel is 45 minutes by train, Colmar in France about an hour, and Frankfurt two hours by ICE.\r\n\r\nFor the Black Forest, regional trains and buses fan out from the Hauptbahnhof and the KONUS card covers them.","hw_hub_city_transport_points":"KONUS guest card | Free regional transport. Ask your hostel\r\nDay ticket about \u20ac6 | Trams cover everything in the city\r\nBasel in 45 minutes | Colmar in about an hour\r\nExcellent cycling | One of Germany's best networks","hw_hub_city_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_city_transport_more":"All transport guides for Freiburg","hw_hub_city_money_title":"What Freiburg costs","hw_hub_city_money_body":"Mid-range for Germany. Dorms are \u20ac20 to \u20ac38, a main \u20ac13 to \u20ac19, and a beer \u20ac4 to \u20ac5.50.\r\n\r\nA day is \u20ac45 to \u20ac85.\r\n\r\nThe KONUS guest card is the big saving \u2014 free regional transport across the Black Forest for the length of your stay, issued by most accommodation, which turns day trips from a \u20ac20 expense into nothing.\r\n\r\nThe M\u00fcnster tower at about \u20ac5 and the Schauinsland cable car at about \u20ac17 are the main entries.\r\n\r\nThe market sausage at \u20ac4 to \u20ac5 is the cheapest good lunch in the city and eating it standing at the cathedral is the local way.","hw_hub_city_money_points":"Dorm bed | \u20ac20\u201338\r\nA day, all in | \u20ac45\u201385\r\nKONUS card | Free regional transport, and widely unknown\r\nMarket lunch | \u20ac4\u20135 for the long red sausage","hw_hub_city_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_city_money_more":"All budget guides for Freiburg","hw_hub_city_safety_title":"Staying safe in Freiburg","hw_hub_city_safety_body":"Freiburg is among the safest cities in Germany and crime against visitors is minimal.\r\n\r\nThe B\u00e4chle are the genuine everyday hazard, which sounds like a joke and is not \u2014 they are open channels twenty to thirty centimetres deep running along the edges of pedestrian streets, they are easy to miss while looking at the buildings, and twisted ankles are common. Watch your feet in the old town.\r\n\r\nPetty theft occurs around the station and at the market.\r\n\r\nIn the Black Forest, the weather turns faster than the gentle scenery suggests, trails at altitude hold snow into spring, and phone coverage thins in the valleys. Tell someone your route and take layers.\r\n\r\nThe cable car and the high trails close in bad weather. Emergency number is 112.","hw_hub_city_safety_points":"The B\u00e4chle | Open channels in the streets. Twisted ankles are common\r\nBlack Forest weather | Turns faster than the scenery suggests\r\nSnow on high trails | Lingering into spring\r\nTell someone your route | Coverage thins in the valleys","hw_hub_city_safety_tag":"safety","hw_hub_city_safety_more":"All safety guides for Freiburg","hw_hub_city_trips_title":"Day trips from Freiburg","hw_hub_city_trips_intro":"The Black Forest, plus France and Switzerland within an hour.","hw_hub_city_trips":"Schauinsland | 30 minutes | Tram, bus and cable car, about \u20ac17 return | A 1,284 m summit above the city, with walking trails down through the forest into Freiburg. |  | 1303681\nColmar, France | 1 hour | Train via Breisach, about \u20ac15 | Half-timbered Alsace at its prettiest, with canals and the Unterlinden Museum. |  | 1303682\nBasel, Switzerland | 45 minutes | Train, about \u20ac15 | Three countries meet here, with a serious art scene and Rhine swimming in summer. |  | 1303683\nTitisee and Feldberg | 40 minutes | Regional train, free with KONUS | A Black Forest lake and the highest peak in the range at 1,493 m, with trails and winter skiing. |  | 1303684\nKaiserstuhl | 30 minutes | Train, free with KONUS | Volcanic hills west of the city producing the best Baden wine, with vineyard paths between the villages. |  | 1303685","hw_hub_city_trips_tag":"day-trips","hw_hub_city_trips_more":"All day trips from Freiburg","hw_hub_city_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_city_season_intro":"May to October. It is the sunniest city in Germany and the shoulder months work better here than elsewhere.","hw_hub_city_season_note":"Average highs, and the highest in Germany \u2014 Freiburg gets around 1,800 hours of sunshine a year and regularly records the country's warmest temperatures. The hills above are several degrees cooler, which in July is the point.","hw_hub_city_season_rows":"January | 5 | 2 | Cold in the city, snow in the hills. Skiing at Feldberg\r\nFebruary | 7 | 2 | Cold and bright. Quiet\r\nMarch | 12 | 3 | Early spring. The south-west warms first\r\nApril | 17 | 4 | Very good. Blossom and comfortable walking\r\nMay | 21 | 5 | Excellent. Everything open and the forest green\r\nJune | 25 | 5 | The best month. Long evenings and high trails clear\r\nJuly | 27 | 5 | Hot. The city is the warmest in Germany\r\nAugust | 26 | 5 | Hot. Go uphill for the temperature\r\nSeptember | 22 | 5 | Superb. Harvest on the Kaiserstuhl and clear air\r\nOctober | 16 | 5 | Excellent. Autumn colour through the Black Forest\r\nNovember | 10 | 2 | Grey and wet. The quietest month\r\nDecember | 6 | 4 | Christmas market, and snow in the hills above","hw_hub_city_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_city_events_intro":"A wine festival in July and a market that has run for centuries.","hw_hub_city_events_source":"api","hw_hub_city_events_count":"8","hw_hub_city_events_cache":"24","hw_hub_city_events_cta_label":"All events in Freiburg","hw_hub_city_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/europe\/germany\/freiburg\/","hw_hub_city_events":"Freiburger Weinfest | July | M\u00fcnsterplatz | Five days of Baden wine in booths around the cathedral, with the Kaiserstuhl growers pouring their own. |  | \nM\u00fcnster market | Every morning but Sunday | M\u00fcnsterplatz | A produce and food market that has run around the cathedral for centuries. The Lange Rote sausage stalls are the draw. |  | \nChristmas market | Late November to December | City centre | A mid-sized market through the old town, with the Black Forest under snow an hour away. |  | \nFasnet | February | Citywide | Alemannic carnival, which is older and stranger than the Rhineland version, with carved wooden masks and witches. |  | \nWine harvest | September to October | Kaiserstuhl | The vendange in the volcanic hills west of the city, with festivals through the villages. |  | ","hw_hub_city_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_city_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel. Per person per night, in euros.","hw_hub_city_budget_note":"The shoestring transport line is zero because the KONUS guest card, issued free by most accommodation, covers regional travel across the whole Black Forest.","hw_hub_city_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 20 | 13 | 0 | 5\r\nMiddle of the road | 34 | 28 | 6 | 18\r\nComfortable | 58 | 46 | 6 | 34","hw_hub_city_budget_currency":"\u20ac","hw_hub_city_hostels_title":"Where to stay in Freiburg","hw_hub_city_hostels_intro":"A small scene near the old town and the station, most of it issuing the KONUS card. Live from Hostelworld.","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in Freiburg","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/germany\/freiburg\/","hw_hub_city_hostels_source":"api","hw_hub_city_hostels_count":"12","hw_hub_city_hostels_cache":"12","hw_hub_city_picks":"Best for solo travellers |  |  | \nBest for a party |  |  | \nQuietest |  |  | ","hw_hub_city_hostels":"","hw_hub_city_faq_title":"Freiburg travel questions","hw_hub_city_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_city_faqs":"What are the B\u00e4chle? | Narrow open water channels running along the old town streets, medieval in origin and fed from the river. Local superstition says that stepping in one accidentally means you will marry a Freiburger. They are also twenty to thirty centimetres deep and a genuine cause of twisted ankles, so watch your feet.\r\nWhat is the KONUS card? | A guest card issued free by most accommodation in the Black Forest region, giving unlimited free regional transport across the whole area for the length of your stay. It turns a \u20ac20 day trip into a free one and a lot of visitors never hear about it \u2014 ask when you check in.\r\nIs it really the sunniest city in Germany? | Yes, at around 1,800 hours a year, and it regularly records the country's highest temperatures. It sits in the far south-west, closer to Basel and Colmar than to most of Germany, and the climate reflects that.\r\nHow do I get into the Black Forest? | It starts at the edge of the city. The Schauinsland cable car climbs to 1,284 metres for about \u20ac17 return and you can walk down into Freiburg from the top. Regional trains reach Titisee and Feldberg in forty minutes, free with the KONUS card.\r\nWhat should I eat at the market? | A Lange Rote \u2014 a long thin red sausage in a small bun with mustard, about \u20ac4 to \u20ac5 from the stalls around the cathedral. It is the correct Freiburg lunch and you eat it standing up.\r\nIs the cathedral tower worth climbing? | At about \u20ac5 for 209 steps, yes. The 116-metre openwork spire was completed around 1330, making it one of very few Gothic towers actually finished in the medieval period, and the view reaches the Black Forest on one side and the Vosges in France on the other.\r\nWhat is Vauban? | A car-reduced solar district south of the centre, built on a former barracks site, which urban planners travel from around the world to study. It is free to walk around on the tram line and is quietly one of the more interesting things in the city.","hw_hub_city_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_city_cta_body":"Compare Freiburg hostels \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. Then meet the people already there in the app.","hw_hub_city_cta_buttons":"Find hostels in Freiburg | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/germany\/freiburg\/\r\nGet the app | https:\/\/hostelworld.onelink.me\/IdiK\/f5a50nhd","hw_hub_city_newsletter_title":"Get the good stuff monthly","hw_hub_city_newsletter_body":"New city guides, deals and route ideas. 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