Romantic street celebrates 75 years: a tourist treasure of the Pfaffenwinkel

Romantic street celebrates 75 years: a tourist treasure of the Pfaffenwinkel

The romantic street, a 460 kilometer holiday road in Germany, celebrates its 75th anniversary in 2025. The route extends from Würzburg to Füssen and leads through particularly beautiful regions in southern Germany. The six district communities in Pfaffenwinkel - Hohenfurch, Schongau, Peiting, Rottenbuch, Wildsteig and Steingaden - are central points along this tourist attraction, which was established in the years after the Second World War to make Germany more attractive as a holiday country. This reports Merkur .

The main goals of the romantic street were the improvement of the tourist image of Germany abroad and promoting tourism as an important industry. The route combines numerous medieval cities, sights and attractive landscapes that attract visitors. Susanne Lengger, managing director of the Pfaffenwinkel Tourism Association, emphasizes the importance of this street for the popularity of the region. Andreas Schmid from the tourism association is also certain that without the romantic street of the Pfaffenwinkel would hardly be known abroad.

international importance and friendships

In the 1990s, the region experienced a heyday when numerous tourists from Japan visited the romantic street. This international interest led to friendships, for example between the Pfaffenwinkel and Brazil and Japan. There are partnerships in the Pfaffenwinkel, such as between Rottenbuch and Ivoti (Brazil) as well as Peiting and Tsumagoi (Japan). The romantic road has even found imitations in other countries, including in Japan (since 1982), Brazil (since 1998), South Korea (since 2009) and Taiwan.

The celebrations for the 75th anniversary are decentralized in the member communities of the Romantic Straße and particularly want to focus on cycling. The “Romantic Road Coach”, a long -distance bus that drove from Frankfurt to Füssen until ten years ago, was discontinued due to decreasing utilization. Nevertheless, the romantic road has developed over the past 75 years. The environmental infrastructure has been improved and tourists' travel behavior has changed.

The cycle and hiking trails

Along the route, numerous cycle and hiking trails have been set up to meet the needs of tourists. The "romantic tour" is a long -distance cycle path that is part of the Bayern Network and the Radnetz Germany (D9) and extends over 424 kilometers. The route was carefully planned to offer cyclists special experiences. There are alternative routes and several sections are unpaved, which means that they are only suitable for racing bikes. Along the way, the routes are signposted according to the guidelines of the ADFC. Green signs with the logo of the romantic street and a bicycle symbol also show the way.

Visitors are recommended to plan enough time for the Klosterland Pfaffenwinkel to enjoy the rococo jewels along the bike path, as from Pfaffen Winkel emphasized. So the romantic street remains not only an important cultural heritage, but also a lively part of the tourism history in Germany.