Editing Black Forest (section)

=== Points of interest ===
[[File:Windbuchencom.jpg|thumb|Winter on [[Schauinsland]]: famous "Windbuchen" [[beech]]es bent by the wind]]

There are many historic towns in the Black Forest. Popular tourist destinations include [[Baden-Baden]], [[Freiburg]], [[Calw]] (the birth town of [[Hermann Hesse]]), [[Gengenbach]], [[Staufen, Germany|Staufen]], [[Schiltach]], [[Haslach im Kinzigtal|Haslach]] and [[Altensteig]]. Other popular destinations include such mountains as the Feldberg, the [[Belchen (Black Forest)|Belchen]], the [[Kandel (Black Forest)|Kandel]], and the Schauinsland; the [[Titisee]] and [[Schluchsee]] lakes; the [[All Saints Waterfalls]]; the [[Triberg Waterfalls]], not the highest, but the most famous waterfalls in Germany; and the [[canyon|gorge]] of the River [[Wutach (river)|Wutach]].

For drivers, the main route through the region is the fast [[Bundesautobahn 5|A 5]] (E35) motorway, but a variety of signposted scenic routes such as the [[Schwarzwaldhochstraße]] ({{convert|60|km|abbr=on}}, [[Baden-Baden]] to [[Freudenstadt]]), Schwarzwald Tälerstraße ({{convert|100|km|abbr=on}}, the [[Murg (Northern Black Forest)|Murg]] and [[Kinzig (Rhine)|Kinzig]] valleys) or Badische Weinstraße (Baden Wine Street, {{convert|160|km|abbr=on}}, a wine route from [[Baden-Baden]] to [[Weil am Rhein]]) offers calmer driving along high roads.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/the-complete-guide-to-the-black-forest-587560.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090308090953/http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/the-complete-guide-to-the-black-forest-587560.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 March 2009 |title=The complete guide to The Black Forest |newspaper=The Independent |date=19 March 2014 |access-date=9 August 2014}}</ref> The last is a picturesque trip starting in the south of the Black Forest going north and includes numerous old wineries and tiny villages. Another, more specialized route is the [[German Clock Route]],<ref>{{cite web |author=Apropos Werbung, Telefon 07721-98770 |url=http://www.deutscheuhrenstrasse.de/sofindensieunsen.htm |title=German Clock Route Location |publisher=Deutsche Uhrenstrasse |access-date=9 August 2014 |archive-date=9 February 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060209205931/http://www.deutscheuhrenstrasse.de/sofindensieunsen.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> a circular route that traces the [[horology|horological]] history of the region.

[[File:Photo01 1A.jpg|thumb|Black Forest track]]

Due to the rich mining history dating from medieval times (the Black Forest was one of the most important mining regions of Europe {{Circa|1100}}) there are many mines re-opened to the public. Such mines may be visited in the Kinzig valley, the Suggental, the Muenster valley, and around Todtmoos.

The Black Forest was visited on several occasions by Count [[Otto von Bismarck]] during his years as Prussian and later German chancellor (1862–1890). Allegedly, he was especially interested in the [[Triberg Waterfalls]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GOwOyUl7-TMC&q=bismarck+triberg&pg=PA147 |title=A Rough Passage, Volume II: Memories of Empire |author=Ken Barnes |publisher=The Radcliffe Press |date=2007 |access-date=9 August 2014 |isbn=9781845112646 |archive-date=1 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601203148/https://books.google.com/books?id=GOwOyUl7-TMC&q=bismarck+triberg&pg=PA147 |url-status=live }}</ref> There is now a monument in Triberg dedicated to Bismarck, who apparently enjoyed the tranquility of the region as an escape from his day-to-day political duties in Berlin.

The Black Forest featured in the philosophical development of [[Martin Heidegger]]. Heidegger wrote and edited some of his philosophical works in a small hut in the Black Forest,<ref>{{cite book |last=Sharr |first=Adam |url=http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/heideggers-hut |title=Heidegger's Hut &#124; The MIT Press |date=27 October 2006 |publisher=Mitpress.mit.edu |isbn=9780262195515 |access-date=24 December 2015 |archive-date=10 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150510182113/http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/heideggers-hut |url-status=live }}</ref> and would receive visitors there for walks, including his former pupil [[Hannah Arendt]]. This hut features explicitly in his essay ''Building, Dwelling, Thinking''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger-aesthetics/ |title=Heidegger's Aesthetics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) |publisher=Plato.stanford.edu |access-date=24 December 2015 |archive-date=11 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211012425/http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger-aesthetics/ |url-status=live }}</ref> His walks in the Black Forest are supposed to have inspired the title of his collection of essays ''Holzwege'', translated as ''Off The Beaten Track''.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QImd2ARqQPMC&q=path |title=Heidegger: Off the Beaten Track – Martin Heidegger, Julian Young, Kenneth Haynes |year=2002 |isbn=9780521805070 |last1=Heidegger |first1=Martin |publisher=Cambridge University Press |access-date=24 August 2017 |archive-date=21 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221214254/https://books.google.com/books?id=QImd2ARqQPMC&q=path |url-status=live }}</ref>