Ravensburg is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Weingarten, 27km from Meersburg Castle.
Ravensburg is in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, with about 49,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Weingarten, about 4 km away.
Ravensburg (German pronunciation: [ˈʁaːvn̩sˌbʊʁk] or [ˈʁaːfn̩sˌbʊʁk]; Swabian: Raveschburg) is a city in Upper Swabia in Southern Germany, capital of the district of Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg.
Ravensburg was first mentioned in 1088. In the Middle Ages, it was a Free Imperial City and an important trading centre.Read more The "Great Ravensburg Trading Society" (Große Ravensburger Handelsgesellschaft) owned shops and trading companies all over Europe.
The historic city centre is still very much intact, including three city gates and over 10 towers of the medieval fortification.
Within an hour or so of Ravensburg: Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen (17 km), Erwin Hymer Museum (20 km), Meersburg Castle (27 km), Autobau Erlebniswelt (31 km).
Are there any good drives near Ravensburg?
The nearest famous roads are Riedberg Pass, Furkajoch and Schwägalp Pass.
Where is Ravensburg?
Ravensburg is in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, about 4 km from Weingarten.
Road trip
Drive to Ravensburg
Add it as a stop and the planner works out the driving, the nights and what's worth seeing on the way.
The world's largest airship collection, in the Bauhaus harbour station of the town where the giants were built, including a walk-through, full-scale reconstruction of the Hindenburg's passenger quarters.
17 km · about 20 min drive
museum
Erwin Hymer Museum
Unique museum celebrating road trip culture with vintage camper vans, caravans, and dream routes from around the world.
20 km · about 25 min drive
castle
Meersburg Castle
Germany's oldest inhabited castle overlooks Lake Constance from a vineyard terrace in a charming medieval old town.
27 km · about 30 min drive
museum
Autobau Erlebniswelt
Racing driver Fredy Lienhard's supercar and motorsport collection in a former Romanshorn industrial plant on Lake Constance: Ferraris, Le Mans prototypes and Indy cars.
31 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
Mainau Island
A Mediterranean flower island on Lake Constance bursts with palms, butterfly house and a baroque palace garden.
32 km · about 35 min drive
museum
Rolls-Royce Museum Dornbirn
One of the world's largest Rolls-Royce collections, filling a converted 19th-century mill in the Gütle valley near Dornbirn with Phantoms and Silver Ghosts once owned by royalty.
45 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
Appenzell
A colourful village in rolling green hills known for its painted wooden houses, direct democracy traditions, and the dramatic Alpstein range.
52 km · about 60 min drive
mountain pass
Riedberg Pass
Germany's highest paved mountain pass at 1,407 m, carrying the B308 Alpine road over gradients up to 16% between Balderschwang and the Illertal in the Allgaeu Alps.
57 km · about 65 min drive
Driving roads near Ravensburg
9 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 100km.
57 kmRiedberg PassGermany's highest paved mountain pass at 1,407 m, carrying the B308 Alpine road over gradients up to 16% between Balderschwang and the Illertal in the Allgaeu Alps.
60 kmFurkajochA narrow, quiet Vorarlberg pass with a fine view over the Rhine valley, closed through the winter.
63 kmSchwägalp PassThe road under the north face of the Säntis, ending at the cable car station. Green alpine pasture country rather than high rock.
67 kmOberjoch JochstrasseThe most bend-rich road in Germany: the B308 Jochstrasse coils through over 100 curves as it climbs from Bad Hindelang to the mountain village of Oberjoch at 1,178 m in the Allgaeu.
69 kmHochtannberg PassA pass linking the Bregenzerwald to Lech, held open through winter for the ski resorts.
74 kmTriesenbergWalser mountain village terraced 400 m above the Rhine on the hairpin road to Malbun; its balcony viewpoints take in the entire principality and the Swiss Alpstein across the valley.