Gersbach

Gersbach is a health resort on the sunny side of the southern slope of the Southern Black Forest.

Get in

Gersbach's location makes it easy to arrive by car. Traveling by plane, bus or train is no problem if you plan well. Many providers of overnight accommodation offer a personal pick-up service, usually free of charge, upon request.

By train

Take the ICE train via Basel Badischer Bahnhof with the Regio-S-Bahn line S6 to Schopfheim (Bhf) or Fahrnau. There change to the bus line 7308 (SBG) to Gersbach.

By car

Take the Karlsruhe-Basel motorway A5to the Lörrach exit. Continue towards Schopfheim on the B 317. There, turn onto the K 6352 county road to Gersbach.

See

• 1 Barockschanze (Baroque fortifications). Reconstruction of 17th- to 18th-century defence line built in the Black Forest against French invasion. (updated Feb 2016)
• 2 Wald & Glas Zentrum Gersbach im Schwarzwald (Forest and glass centre), Wehratalstraße 10. The Forest Glass Center displays original finds, replica exhibits and describes manufacturing processes for everyday objects and jewelry that were common in Gersbach in the 14th to 17th centuries, but also in other places in the Black Forest. (updated Feb 2016)
• Europe's former largest silver fir lies in the Gersbach Forest as an ecosystem for the extraction of wood.
• The cattle trail with bison offers information on cattle breeding and food production.
• The rampart: This is the reconstruction of a hexagonal rampart with a diameter of 60 meters and a height of seven meters with a watchtower.
• The sculpture trail, which now includes more than 20 sculptures by the Gersbach artist Wolfgang Gerstner, attracts the attention of visitors at various points in the Black Forest village.

Sleep

Mid-range

• Ferienhaus Ferienwohnungen Südterrasse, Rauschbachstraße 28, Schopfheim, ☏ +49 7620 377, e.f.schmidt@gmx.de. Offer vacation homes in the Black Forest. €30-90. 
• Haus Zimmermann, ☏ +49 7620-298, trip@freenet.de. €40. 
• Hotel Muehle zu Gersbach, Zum Bühl 4, Schopfheim, ☏ +49 7620-90400, hotel@muehle.de. Small hotel with restaurant. €79-178. 
• Hotel Zum Waldhüter, Gässle 7, Schopfheim-Gersbach, info@zumwaldhueter.de. €55 per person including breakfast.