Waldshut: Holiday apartments and holiday homes

Waldshut invites you to enjoy a leisurely stroll and browse through a wide variety of shops. You can rent a holiday apartment in Waldshut.

Finding your way around Waldshut

Visitor information for Waldshut brings together details about getting there and parking, suggested tours, and ideas for exploring the town step by step.

Local character

Waldshut’s local business network includes restaurants as well as retailers and service providers.

Culture and history

The old town is entered through the Upper or Lower Gate. The historic townscape includes the Upper Gate, dating from the 13th century, and the largely preserved Kaiserstraße, which was originally laid out as a market street. Kaiserstraße is also a pedestrian shopping street with many historic buildings.

In the surrounding area, Iburg is located about 13.0 km west of Waldshut city centre.

The Rhine and trails

Waldshut lies on the Rhine; a path for pedestrians and cyclists runs along its banks. At this point, the Rhine forms the border with Switzerland.

A cycling loop connected with Waldshut follows the banks of the Rhine, passes sandbanks and alluvial forest, crosses over to the Swiss side of the Rhine at Albbruck, and returns in the direction of Waldshut.

The 233-kilometre-long Black Forest Central Trail ends in Waldshut or can be walked in the opposite direction.

In the wider context of Waldshut-Tiengen, trails run through riverside areas, past small waterfalls, and through forests, meadows, rocks, and gorges with inns and viewpoints. The Wolfssteig is approximately 22 kilometres long and can be walked in the direction of Waldshut.

Regional setting

The municipality of Waldshut-Tiengen lies in the far south of the Black Forest and on the Rhine, which forms the natural border between Germany and Switzerland at this point.

In the surrounding area, Hasel Zoo is located about 14.0 km south of Waldshut city centre. In the wider region, Vindonissa is located about 17.1 km south of the centre, while Burg lies about 20.5 km to the east.

The landscape context of the wider region includes Lehenkopf about 17.1 km to the northwest, Hohe Muttlen about 25.8 km to the northwest, Dietenschwander Kopf about 26.3 km to the west, and Mittlisberg about 27.6 km southwest of Waldshut city centre.

Other places at this regional level

If you would like to expand the regional selection to include other local destination pages, this level also includes Albbruck, Altenburg, Bad Säckingen, Bernau Im Schwarzwald, Bonndorf Im Schwarzwald, Dachsberg, Dogern, and Eggingen.

The same regional overview also includes Görwihl, Grafenhausen, Häusern, Herrischried, Höchenschwand, Hohentengen am Hochrhein, Ibach, and Jestetten.

Other local destination pages at this level lead to Küssaberg, Lauchringen, Laufenburg, Lottstetten, Murg, Rickenbach, Sankt Blasien, and Stühlingen.

In addition, you can use the local destination pages for Todtmoos, Ühlingen-Birkendorf, Waldshut-Tiengen, Wehr, Weilheim, Wutach, and Wutöschingen for further regional orientation.

To the higher-level travel overview: Baden-Württemberg.