Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
only mid-Nov-Easter)
Staff sell the Nördlinger TouristCard (€9.95) that saves you around
€8 if you visit everything in town.
Getting There & Away
Bus
The Europabus stops at the Rathaus. Bus 501 goes to Dinkelsbühl (45 minutes, five
daily).
Train
Train journeys to and from Munich (€24.50, two hours) and Augsburg (€14.40, 1¼
hours) require a change in Donauwörth.
HARBURG
Looming over the Wörnitz River, the medieval covered parapets, towers, turrets, keep and red-tiled
roofs of the 12th-century
Schloss Harburg
(
www.burg-harburg.de
;
adult/child €5/3;
10am-5pm Tue-Sun mid-Mar-Oct)
are so perfectly preserved they almost seem like a film set.
Tours tell the building's long tale and evoke the ghosts that are said to use the castle as a hang-out.
From the castle, the walk to Harburg's cute, half-timbered
Altstadt
takes around 10 minutes,
slightly more the other way as you're heading uphill. A fabulous panorama of the village and castle
can be admired from the 1702
stone bridge
spanning the Wörnitz.
The Europabus stops in the village (outside the Gasthof Grüner Baum) but not at the castle.
Hourly trains run to Nördlingen (€4.10, 18 minutes) and Donauwörth (€3.40, 10 minutes). The train
station is about a 30-minute walk from the castle. Harburg is on the B25 road.
Donauwörth
0906 / POP 18,240
Sitting pretty at the confluence of the Danube and Wörnitz rivers, Donauwörth rose from
its humble beginnings as a 5th-century fishing village to its zenith as a Free Imperial City
in 1301. Three medieval gates and five town wall towers still guard it today, and faithful
rebuilding - after WWII had destroyed 75% of the medieval old town - means steep-
roofed houses in a rainbow of colours still line its main street, Reichstrasse.
