To say that Gengenbach is the most beautiful town in Germany is perhaps foolish on my part. The general appearance of Gengenbach is fairy-like, with its rampart, its gates to the city and its medieval watchtowers.

Inside a labyrinth of cobbled alleys, with colored half-timbered houses. A picture that cannot be more of a postcard!

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Gengenbach is a small town of around 11,000 inhabitants located on the edge of the Black Forest, Ortenau district, in Baden Württemberg.

It is located halfway between Freiburg and Karlsruhe, two of the most important towns in the region, and very close to the A5 motorway and even the French Strasbourg, so reaching it by car is very easy.

The entrance to the town in the form of a wall and tower (the main access to the village hundreds of years ago) already makes you see that what is inside is an extremely well-kept jewel.
Because entering Gengenbach is like entering a story.

A fairy tale or of the Grimm brothers where their half-timbered houses, their walls or their cobbled and flower-filled alleys take you back to childhood and those children’s stories with which we have all grown up.

Bella, Rapunzel or a clueless piper could have suddenly appeared but no animated character appeared, although I think the cartoonist who was inspired by the Walt Disney stories had to pass through here.

Gengenbach was chosen by Tim Burton to shoot some scenes for the movie “Charlie and the Chocolate Fa...