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Donaueschingen – die Residenzstadt an der Donauquelle

Dort, wo die Reise der Donau beginnt, liegt der staatlich anerkannte Erholungsort Donaueschingen – eine lebendige Verbindung aus Tradition und Fortschritt. Ob Donauquelle, Jugendstilensemble, Kultur- und Naturerlebnisse oder Geselligkeit: Lassen Sie sich verzaubern!

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Der donauursprung, zunft-museum der narrenzunft frohsinn, kinder- und jugendmuseum.

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Donaueschingen, in herrlicher Naturlandschaft am Rande des Südschwarzwalds gelegen, ist einerseits Kulturstadt und Fürstensitz, andererseits moderner Lebensraum für aktive Menschen. Dazu tragen unter anderem die Donauquelle im Fürstlichen Schlosspark, die Donaueschinger Musiktage sowie das Internationale S. D. Fürst Joachim zu Fürstenberg-Gedächtnisturnier bei. Wer mehr über den Beginn der Donau erfahren möchte, ist hier genau richtig - denn neben der weltbekannten Donauquelle befindet sich in Donaueschingen auch der Donauzusammenfluss.

Beim Spaziergang durch die Innenstadt fallen vor allem die farbenfrohen Jugendstilgebäude sowie die im böhmischen Barock erbaute Stadtkirche St. Johann ins Auge. Die Sehenswürdigkeiten der Residenzstadt lassen sich am besten bei einer Erlebnisführung kennen lernen (ganzjährig samstags um 10.30 Uhr und von Juli - September mittwochs um 14.30 Uhr, mit Voranmeldung bei der Tourist-Information). Im idyllischen Fürstlichen Schlosspark befindet sich das Schloss des Hauses Fürstenberg (feste Besichtigungstermine). Erleben Sie während Ihres Aufenthaltes eine Führung durch die Fürstenberg Brauerei mit Verkostung oder besuchen Sie eines der vielfältigen Museen wie das Museum Art.Plus oder die Fürstlich Fürstenbergischen Sammlungen. Tatkräftig können Kinder und Jugendliche im Kinder- und Jugendmuseum ausprobieren, forschen und die Welt verstehen lernen. Nach einem erlebnisreichen Freizeittag laden attraktive Geschäfte, gemütliche Cafés, Restaurants und Bars zum Verweilen ein.

Die herrliche Natur rund um Donaueschingen mit ausgedehnten Aussichten bis zu den Alpen lädt zum Spazieren, Wandern und Radfahren ein. Ausgeschilderte Rad- und Wandertouren mit unterschiedlichen Schwierigkeitsgraden sorgen dabei für unbeschwerten Freizeitspaß. Kleine und große Wasserratten kommen in den Freibädern und am Badesee auf ihre Kosten und Golfbegeisterte finden auf der 45-Loch-Golfanlage des Golfresorts Öschberghof ihr Terrain. Wer weit hinaus will, kann sich auf den „Klassiker“, den Donauradweg begeben, der hier beginnt.

Donaueschingen bietet außerdem den perfekten Ausgangspunkt für Ausflüge in den Schwarzwald, an den Bodensee oder in die Schweiz.

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Donaueschingen - Birthplace of the river Danube

Anyone with an interest in the Danube will love Donaueschingen, the birthplace of the river. The residential city in the Southern Black Forest Nature Park is famous around the world.

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The danube confluence, carnival museum, museum for children and youth.

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The princely fürstenberg collections, the danube source, description.

Attractions include the source of the Danube in the grounds of the Princely Fürstenberg Palace, the annual Donaueschingen Music Festival and the CHI International Equestrian Tournament.

Experience Culture – Explore Nature Donaueschingen’s rich offering means culture lovers will be in their element. You can visit the Princely Fürstenberg Collections, the Museum Art.Plus and the Carnival Museum or explore Fürstenberg Palace on a tour (fixed visiting hours). The Children and Youth Museum, which opened in 2012, offers spaces for learning and experience, while beer lovers wishing to be initiated into the mysteries of the brewer’s art will adore a tour of the Fürstenberg Brewery. Further attractions including the blue town hall with the musician's fountain and the St. John’s Church in the Bohemian baroque style can be visited independently or on an experience tour. The residential city also offers a wide range of leisure facilities including a network of crosscountry trails and a curling rink in winter, an 45-hole golf course and a bathing lake with a camp site. The more athletically inclined will find a well signposted network of hiking and cycle trails and can also set out on the famous Danube Cycle Trail from the town.

Central Location - Rich Offering Donaueschingen’s central location makes it perfect for numerous, impressive day trips to Switzerland, Lake Constance and France. Cosy guesthouses and comfortable premium-class hotels offer superb facilities. The town also boasts numerous attractive restaurants and relaxing cafés serving delicious fare. Upon arrival you will receive the Konus Guest Card, which you can use to travel free of charge on buses and trains throughout the Black Forest area.

Donauquelle reopened!

We are pleased to present you the completely redeveloped Donauquelle with a new green area and a barrier-free access via a lift. We look forward to your visit .

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Donaueschingen

Donaueschingen is known throughout Europe: The Danube, the most important and longest river in Central/ Europe, rises here. The town has a population of just over 20,000 and lies just outside the Black Forest to the east. The beautiful town has a lot more to offer besides the source of the Danube and is ideal for a day trip for holidaymakers in the southern Black Forest.

Places of interest Donaueschingen

The landmark and focal point of the town is the parish church of St. John, which was only built in the 18th century. All the other sights described below are only a few 100 metres away from the church.

Even more famous than the church are the castle, the castle park and especially the Danube spring in the castle park.

The Donauquelle (Danube spring) is a round basin next to Donaueschingen Castle. Here is a spring that many believe is the beginning of the Danube. Other experts believe that the confluence of the two streams Brigach and Breg marks the beginning of the Danube (about 2 km east of Donaueschingen). Whatever the case, the source of the Danube is the symbol of its origin in Donaueschingen. The basin and the figures are worth seeing and were built by the artist Adolf Herr a good 100 years ago.

The large castle park in Donaueschingen is one of the most beautiful in southern Germany and worth an extended walk, especially in summer. Unlike other similar parks, the grass here is a metre or more high in many places. The park looks very natural and is a valuable biotope in the middle of the city.

The large castle of Donaueschingen is the residence of the famous noble Fürstenberg family. The large Fürstenberg brewery is also in the middle of the town. In the brewery inn not far from the castle you can enjoy a good home-cooked meal and taste a beer brewed next door.

Donauessingen Music Festival: Donauessingen is known for its annual music festival, the Donauessinger Music Festival. This contemporary classical music festival attracts musicians and music lovers from all over the world.

Donauessinger Sculpture Trail: Explore the city’s public art on the Donauessinger Sculpture Trail, where sculptures by various artists are on display.

Brigach and Breg: Donaueschingen is not only located on the Danube, but also at the confluence of the Brigach and Breg. Walking along the river you can enjoy the beautiful view of the two tributaries that flow into the Danube.

Donaueschingen Town Hall: The town hall is a famous building in the center of Donaueschingen and worth a visit.

Historic old town: Donaueschingen has a charming old town with well-preserved architecture, including half-timbered houses and picturesque streets. Stroll through the historic old town and experience its charm.

Museum Art.Plus: With contemporary art and special exhibitions, this museum offers a cultural experience for art lovers.

How to get to Donaueschingen

Donaueschingen can be reached by train from Neustadt in the Black Forest. Donaueschingen is a railway junction with trains in many directions.

By car, Donaueschingen can be reached from the southern Black Forest via the B31 trunk road. This runs from Freiburg via Hinterzarten , Titisee and Neustadt to Donaueschingen.

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Donaueschingen in the Black Forest

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• Location: at the south-eastern edge of the Black Forest, 10 km south of Villingen-Schwenningen
• Autobahn A 81 triangle Bad Dürrheim (No. 37)
• 680-950 m above sea level
• 22.500 inhabitants
• Districts: Aasen, Allmendshofen, Aufen, Grüningen, Heidenhofen, Hubertshofen, Neudingen, Pfohren, Wolterdingen

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Donaueschingen is situated on the high plateau of the 'Baar', at the eastern edge of the Black Forest.

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Deep Beneath London, Onetime Bomb Shelters Will Become a Tourist Attraction

Used for spying, a phone exchange and more over the years, a semi-secret web of tunnels in central London could open to the public in 2027.

By Claire Moses

Reporting from 98 feet below street level in London

There’s a locked door on the eastbound platform of the Chancery Lane station of the London Underground. The door is unassuming, sturdy and white.

Behind it is a wide set of stairs leading to a roughly mile-long maze of tunnels built in the 1940s that were first intended to serve as a World War II shelter and later used for espionage, the storage of 400 tons of government documents and telecom services.

Welcome to the Kingsway Exchange tunnels, set roughly 100 feet below street level in the center of London, sprawling beneath the Underground’s Central Line. Soon they could enter a new chapter: Angus Murray, the owner of the complex, who bought the tunnels last summer, has applied for planning permission to the local authorities together with the architecture firm WilkinsonEyre to turn the tunnels into a tourist destination that could handle millions of people a year.

Mr. Murray’s London Tunnels is planning to invest a total of 220 million pounds (about $275 million) on restoring and preserving the tunnels, as well as adding technology for art installations and other attractions. Mr. Murray hopes to open the complex in 2027, and said that it would be able to host temporary art exhibitions, fashion shows and more.

At the moment, entering the tunnels requires riding a small elevator tucked behind a side door in an alleyway off a wide street in central London. (Visitors to the attraction would use a different, bigger entrance, Mr. Murray said.)

When the elevator doors open, you step into a World War II-era tunnel — one of 10 civilian shelters proposed by the British government after the beginning of the Blitz, the eight-month bombing of London by the Germans that started in September 1940. The tunnels were never used as shelters. By the time they were completed in 1942, the Blitz was over.

During the Cold War, the British government instructed its telephone department, which later became British Telecom, to set up a secret communications system in the tunnels that could survive a nuclear attack. The famous hotline between the Kremlin and the White House ran through the complex, according to the project’s website. Some of the phone exchange’s equipment in the tunnels still survives today, even though it hasn’t been used since at least the 1980s.

“The idea was that it would provide a degree of protection,” said Martin Dixon, a trustee for Subterranea Britannica , a charity that documents and tries to preserve underground spaces.

“If the Cold War had turned into something more serious, it would have allowed communications on some level to continue,” Mr. Dixon, who joined Subterranea Britannica about 40 years ago, said.

The tunnels under the Chancery Lane station of the tube are more than a mile long and in some places have a diameter of almost 25 feet. Those dimensions make them among the largest sets of tunnels built for people in a metropolitan city, Mr. Murray said.

“They have a fascinating history,” he said.

For a group of Post Office and telecoms workers in the decades after World War II, the tunnel complex became a workplace, some aspects of which have survived. In one room, the stuffy smell of an old carpet is inescapable. Another still holds the remnants of a canteen. Yet another has fake windows framing images of nature as decorations. There are still offices, as well as rooms where workers could spend the night.

Some parts of the tunnels are lined with fake walls, and doors with nothing behind them. The effect is not unlike watching a scene from the dystopian Apple TV+ show “Severance .”

A bar where postal workers could drink is also still there, and Mr. Murray said he hoped to revive it and make it London’s deepest underground bar.

The tunnels’ communication operation became obsolete in the 1980s, and in 2008 British Telecom put the tunnels up for sale . BT employees used to go down into the complex up until the 1990s to inspect for fire safety and other conditions. The tunnels were otherwise vacant.

Many details of the new attraction still need to be ironed out, but Mr. Murray said the cost of the experience would probably be in the same price range as that of other major tourist sites in London. (The Tower of London’s entry fee is about $40, and Westminster Abbey’s is about $36.)

Mr. Dixon, of Subterranea Britannica, said he was excited about the prospect of the Kingsway Exchange turning into an attraction — provided it’s safe and the history is preserved.

“I’ve seen thousands of underground spaces, from the mundane to the spectacular,” he said. The Kingsway Exchange is particularly interesting, he added, because of all the different functions it had. “It played its part in World War II, and was ready to play its part in the Cold War.”

Claire Moses is a Times reporter in London, focused on coverage of breaking and trending news. More about Claire Moses

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San Francisco sea lions swarm Pier 39, the most gathered in 15 years: See drone video

Some extra barking and splashing can be heard in San Francisco Bay's Pier 39 as an unusually large swarm of sea lions is gathering at the iconic landmark.

While sea lions regularly hang out at the pier and have been doing so since about 1990, this week the number of the animals has reached around 1,000, causing a ruckus and attracting extra attention from locals and tourists.

It's the most sea lions that have shown up there in 15 years, Sheila Chandor, Harbormaster for Pier 39 Marina, told ABC 7 .

On April 29, the pier tweeted that there were around 820 sea lions. But the number has grown since then.

Experts are saying it's a good sign and are happy to see the mammals hanging about in such a large number.

Adam Ratner, the director of conservation engagement for the Marine Mammal Center, told ABC 7 he believes this is a sign that the San Francisco Bay is "doing well."

USA TODAY has reached out to Pier 39 for more information.

Why are so many sea lions gathering?

Because they're chasing after their food.

Chandor told ABC 7 that the sea lions are hunting after a huge school of anchovy that came from from an island that is around 28 miles away from the bay named the Farallon Islands.

"It's kind of that dinner bell that's ringing and all the sea lions are coming in enjoying that feast," Ratner said.

Ratner also told the news outlet that they're able to "get a sense of the Bay, the health of the sea lion population, and their comings and goings."

He adds that he assumes this is happening because the fish they eat, which are usually somewhere else at this time of year, are coming closer to the bay and bringing the sea lions closer, too.

When what the last time this happened?

According to NBC Bay Area , the slippery mammals started visiting the docks after the 1989, and since then they've been a popular attraction.

But, ABC 7 reports that the last time there were this many seals was in 2009, when around 1,700 sea lion hung out at Pier 39.

How to see the San Francisco sea lions

Folks who want to see the critters all snuggled up on the pier but can't get to San Francisco to pay them a visit don't need to worry.

Pier 39 has a livestream on their website where viewers can see the sea lions all day long.

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