German Half-Timbered House Road

31 March 2011 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Living, Working, Building, Museums, Exhibitions Reading Time:  4 minutes

Complete overview of the seven regional routes of the German Half-Timbered House Road © Wolfgang A. Köhler

Complete overview of the seven regional routes of the German Half-Timbered House Road © Wolfgang A. Köhler

The German Half-Timbered House Road (German: Deutsche Fachwerkstraße) is a German tourist route leading from the river Elbe in the north to Lake Constance in the south. Along the road you can find nearly 100 cities and towns with remarkable timber-framed houses. It is divided into seven sections, leading through the following states of Germany: Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Hesse, Thuringia, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. The total length is nearly 3,000 km (1,864 mi).   read more…

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