Your way to the Castle

 

Arrival by car

On highway A 81 (Stuttgart–Singen), exit Empfingen, on B463 in direction Balingen, then on B 27 in direction Hechingen (in Hechingen, Burg Hohenzollern signposts give you the direction).

Via federal highway B 27 (Stuttgart–Tübingen-Hechingen-Balingen), exit Burg Hohenzollern.

From exit B 27 the road leads through the forest directly up to the parking lot of the castle. A sufficient number of parking places is available for cars and buses.

From the parking lot the increasingly steep getting walking path (approx. 25 minutes) leads to the castle entrance, the Eagle’s Gate.

The castle can be reached more comfortably by taking the shuttle bus (station is next to the parking lot shop).

Please refer to the Route planner for your arrival by car.

Via GPS:
N  48.32570 | E  8.96390
N  48°19’32‘‘ | E  8°57‘50‘‘

 

Anfahrtsskizze

 

By train to the castle

By train you can easily get to Hechingen station and from there by bus to the parking lot of Hohenzollern Castle. The train connections you find here: www.bahn.de 

Advice
The following train tickets enable up to 5 persons to travel for small money, including the bus transfer from Hechingen station to the Hohenzollern Castle parking lot:

MetropolTicket Stuttgart (daily in the region Neckar-Alb-Donau-Stuttgart)
Baden-Württemberg-Ticket (daily in Baden-Württemberg)
Quer-durchs-Land-Ticket (daily in Germany)

Hechingen station is a small train station. From the platform to the bus station it is only a few meters.

 

By bus to the castle

Between Hechingen station and parking lot Hohenzollern Castle there are some bus connections, which are managed by the bus company HVB Wiest & Schürmann.

Here you find the current bus connections by HVB Wiest & Schürmann:
Line 306 - regular
Line 344 - Traufbus

From the castle's parking lot it takes ca. 20 minutes to walk up to the castle's entrance gate. Alternatively you can use the shuttle bus, which is already included to the ticket of Hohenzollern Castle. 

For further questions regarding the bus connections please contact:
HVB Wiest+Schürmann
Hechinger Verkehrsbetriebsgesellschaft mbH
Brunnenstraße 11
72379 Hechingen
Phone: +49(0)7471-93500
info@hvb-hechingen.de
www.hvb-hechingen.de