Tettnang

Tettnang is located in the Lake Constance (Bodensee) region in the German federal-state of Baden-Württemberg about 10km 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, ☎ [phone], e-mail: [e-mail]. May-Sep (summer): Sun closed. Oct-Apr (winter) Sat-Sun closed. Tourist information. (updated Jan 2016)

Get in

By plane

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

By car

10km (6 miles) North-East of Friedrichshafen, 10km (6 miles) South of Ravensburg.

Get around

By bus

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

Buy

Eat

• Gasthof Traube, Storchenstraße 1, ☎ [phone]. 
• Brauereigasthof Schöre, Dietmannsweiler 2, ☎ [phone]. 
• Brauerei und Gasthof Krone. See sleep for details.

Drink

• 🌍 Bäumle, Schloßstraße 1, ☎ [phone]. 
• Brauerei und Gasthof Krone. See sleep for details.

Sleep

• 🌍 Brauerei und Gasthof Krone, Bärenplatz 7, ☎ [phone]. 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. Finally, they brew their own beer in the small brewery called Tettnager Kronen-Brauerei. 
• Hotel Bären, Bärenplatz 1, ☎ [phone]. 
• Hotel Rad, Lindauer Str. 2, ☎ [phone]. 
• Hotel-Restaurant Ritter, Karlstraße 2-4, ☎ [phone]. 
• Torstuben Tettnang, Bärenplatz 8, ☎ [phone]. 
• Campingplatz Gutshof Badhütten, Laimnau/Badhütten 1/2, ☎ [phone]. 

Go next

• Friedrichshafen
• Lindau
• Ravensburg