Tettnang
Tettnang[dead link] 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
- Tourist-InfoBüro Tettnang (TIB), Montfortstraße 41, ☏ +49 7542 510500, tourist-info@tettnang.de. May-Sep: closed Su; Oct-Apr: closed Sa Su. Tourist information.
Get in
Map of Tettnang
By plane
The small international airport in Friedrichshafen, Bodensee-Airport Friedrichshafen (FDH IATA), 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
- 1 New Palace (Neues Schloss), Monfortplatz 1. One of the three castles of Tettnang.
- 2 Old Castle (Altes Schloss), Montfortplatz 7. The building from 1667 is now used as town hall.
- 3 Gate Castle (Torschloss).
- 4 Monfort Museum, Montfortstraße 43 (in the Gate Castle). The museum shows the history of Tettnang.
- 5 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.
- 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.
Buy
Eat
- Gasthof Traube, Storchenstraße 1, ☏ +49 7542 7307.
- Brauereigasthof Schöre, Dietmannsweiler 2, ☏ +49 7528 2317.
- Brauerei und Gasthof Krone. See sleep for details.
Drink
- 1 Bäumle, Schloßstraße 1, ☏ +49 7542 951030.
- Brauerei und Gasthof Krone. See sleep for details.
Sleep
- 1 Brauerei und Gasthof Krone, Bärenplatz 7, ☏ +49 7542 7452. An old brewery inn in the middle of Tettnang. The hotel offers rooms like the Brewers Room or the Hops Room, all rooms have shower, WC and TV starting €70. They also have a restaurant which offers Swabian dishes. They also brew their own beer in the small brewery called Tettnager Kronen-Brauerei.
- Hotel Bären, Bärenplatz 1, ☏ +49 7542 6945.
- Hotel Rad, Lindauer Str. 2, ☏ +49 7542 5400.
- Hotel-Restaurant Ritter, Karlstraße 2-4, ☏ +49 7542 53020.
- Torstuben Tettnang, Bärenplatz 8, ☏ +49 7542 93860.
- Campingplatz Gutshof Badhütten, Laimnau/Badhütten 1/2, ☏ +49 7543 96330.