Schwarzwaldhochstraße

A small chapel with notable stained glass windows, known locally as the Adenau Church (Adenauerkirche), sits perched on an outcrop on the heights.

From the Bühlerhöhe, the Hochstraße runs at an altitude of between 800 and 1,000 metres above sea level past several highland hotels (Plättig, Sand, Hundseck, Unterstmatt, Mummelsee, Ruhestein, Schliffkopf).

Passing below the highest mountain in the northern Black Forest, the 1,164-metre-high Hornisgrinde, the road reaches the almost circular Mummelsee, a cirque from the latest ice age.

The name Schwarzwaldhochstraße was first used in 1930 after the completion of the section of road between Hundseck and Untersmatt made access to the High Black Forest easier.

In order to draw the growing number of tourist cars to the highland hotels, the roads in the high valleys were collectively named as a holiday route.