Country guide
The best driving roads in Germany
25 hand-picked driving roads in Germany, every one mapped from real geometry and fact-checked, including 1 world icon.
The five to build a trip around
Our ranking, icons first, with the reasoning on the table. All 25 roads follow below.
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1
1,041 msummitSchwarzwaldhochstraße
The Black Forest High Road, fast sweepers through dark pine and open ridge.
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2
21 mi36 minDeutsche Weinstraße
Germany’s oldest wine-tourism route, the Deutsche Weinstraße rolls along the warm Haardt edge of the Palatinate Forest from Neustadt north to Bockenheim, a gentle vineyard drive past castles, ruins and village wine taverns rather than a corner-carver.
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3
15 mi28 minHochrhönstraße
Open high-plateau panorama road across the Lange Rhön from Bischofsheim to Fladungen.
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4
5 mi11 minBöhringer Steige
The B28's Albaufstieg from Bad Urach hauls up the dramatic escarpment of the Swabian Alb to the plateau at Römerstein, a steep, hairpinned ascent past the wooded Albtrauf that is one of the best-known climbs onto the Alb.
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5
7 mi13 minDeutsche Alpenstraße (Allgäu)
Allgäu leg of the German Alpine Road past the Großer Alpsee, Oberstaufen to Immenstadt.
The roads
Deutsche Weinstraße21 mi · 36 min · 15 cornersView the roadbook ›
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