Tettnang

town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Tettnang is a town of 20,000 people (2020) in the Lake Constance (Bodensee) region of Baden-Württemberg about 10 km from Friedrichshafen. The region produces a special variety of hops, an ingredient of beer, and ships it to breweries throughout the world.

Understand

Get in

By plane

The small international airport in Friedrichshafen, Bodensee-Airport Friedrichshafen (FDH), is only 6km away.

By car

10 km (6 miles) north-east of Friedrichshafen, 10 km south of Ravensburg.

Get around

By bus

Public transport is organised by Bodensee-Oberschwaben Verkehrsverbund (also called bodo).

See

New Palace (Neues Schloss)
  • 🌍 New Palace (Neues Schloss), Monfortplatz 1. One of the three castles of Tettnang. 
  • 🌍 Old Castle (Altes Schloss), Montfortplatz 7. The building from 1667 is now used as town hall. 
  • 🌍 Gate Castle (Torschloss). 
    • 🌍 Monfort Museum, Montfortstraße 43 (in the Gate Castle). The museum shows the history of Tettnang. 
  • 🌍 Hop Museum (Hopfen Museum), Hopfengut 20, Tettnang-Siggenweiler, ☏ +49 7542 952206. The museum is built in three historic houses around a modern fully functional oast. The museum shows the development of hop growing and the history of beer brewing. 

Do

  • Tettnang Hop Trail. A 4-km (or about 8-km round trip) hiking or cycling trail with information signs along the way about hops. Start- and endpoints are the Kronen-Brauerei (in the town centre) and Hop Museum. See online map. (updated Jan 2016)
  • Tettnang Hops Circuit. A 42-km round trip cycling tour through Tettnang and its region (including Friedrichshafen and parts along Lake Constance). The route has a total ascent of about 160 m. There a signs (black bicycle on green arrow) along the way. See online map. (updated Jan 2016)

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