Muggelcaf

The Black Forest


Harry Potter fans might like the name of this cheery, central cafe-bar, housed in a half-timbered building. Come for light meals including salads, burgers and tarte flambée, and Alpirsbacher Klosterbräu brews.


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1. Kloster Alpirsbach

0.12 MILES

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2. Monkey 47

3.74 MILES

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3. Museum am Markt

4.66 MILES

Museum am Markt is crammed with everything from antique spinning wheels to Biedermeier costumes. Highlights include the cobbler’s workshop and an…

4. Marktplatz

4.67 MILES

Centred on a trickling fountain, the sloping, triangular Marktplatz is Schiltach at its picture-book best. The frescoes of its step-gabled 16th-century…

5. Schlossbergstrasse

4.68 MILES

Clamber south up Schlossbergstrasse, pausing to notice the plaques that denote the trades of one-time residents, such as the Strumpfstricker (stocking…

6. Schüttesäge Museum

4.73 MILES

The riverfront Schüttesäge Museum focuses on Schiltach’s rafting tradition with reconstructed workshops, a watermill generating hydroelectric power for…

7. Stadtkirche

8.14 MILES

In the southwest corner of Marktplatz looms the 17th-century red-sandstone Stadtkirche, with an ornate 12th-century Cluniac-style baptismal font, Gothic…

8. Marktplatz

8.22 MILES

Lovers of statistics will delight in ticking off Germany’s biggest square (216m by 219m, for the record), dislocated by a T-junction of heavily trafficked…