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Baden-Württemberg

Discover history, character and views around Calw

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Germany
Baden-Württemberg

Discover history, character and views around Calw

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4.3

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131

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Discover history, character and views around Calw

01:58

6.72km

180m

Hiking

Hiking 🥾🌲

With “Around Calw”, the name says it all, because on the almost seven-kilometer-long hiking trail🌲 you circle the half-timbered town.

You start this tour in the heart of Calw. The signposted path leads you clockwise, first a few meters up, past fascinating red rock formations🪨, up to the…

Last updated: December 16, 2024

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Kuckucksfelsen

Highlight • Natural Monument

The cuckoo rock is a geotope and natural monument made of red sandstone. The rock group consists of several rock towers. A larger cave in the main rock has been walled up for safety reasons.

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Hoher Fels Memorial

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The custom of "torches" was practiced here until the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. In 1962 a memorial was erected on the Hoher Fels.
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The stone bridge and the Gothic chapel were built around 1400. The chapel was dedicated to St. Nicholas, the patron saint against high and stormy water. In the course of …

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6.59 km

Calw Old Town

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The historic old town with over 200 listed, half-timbered houses and the Hermann Hesse Museum are worth a trip. A nighttime city tour with the night watchman is highly recommended.

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6.72 km

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Way Types & Surfaces

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2.87 km

1.87 km

1.08 km

526 m

298 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

3.26 km

2.22 km

1.06 km

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Wednesday 15 July

29°C

14°C

63 %

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August 2, 2025,Rund um Calw - entdecke Denkmäler, Persönlichkeiten, Geschichte und Aussichten!
The approximately 7km circular hike begins at Calw's market square, where charming half-timbered houses usher in the historic ambiance. From there, the trail leads through the old town, past the birthplace of Hermann Hesse and the museum of the same name with its literary garden. It continues to St. Nicholas Chapel and the Long Tower, then to the Old Latin …

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Today we took public transport from Sulz 🚉 to Horb by train and then changed to the regional express train 🚆 towards Pforzheim.

Calw is the birthplace of Hermann Hesse, and there are traces of him 👣 everywhere. We continued on the circular trail around Calw, uphill ↗️ through the forest, then downhill ↙️ and along a narrow path to …

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Today we went back to Calw and, with our dogs, embarked on the tour "Around Calw - Monuments, Personalities, History, and Views." We headed in the opposite direction of the signs from the parking lot directly into the forest.

Monuments, personalities, buildings, and technical achievements accompany us on this "Around Calw" trail.
The signposted trail (clockwise only) leads directly through …

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December 11, 2024

Hiking 🥾🌲



With “Around Calw”, the name says it all, because on the almost seven-kilometer-long hiking trail🌲 you circle the half-timbered town.



You start this tour in the heart of Calw. The signposted path leads you clockwise, first a few meters up, past fascinating red rock formations🪨, up to the

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