Todtmoos
On the last weekend of January, dog sled teams race through Todtmoos in what counts as one of Germany's international championship rounds — and the crowd watching from the snow-banked road is not a large one. That smallness is the point. This Black Forest village, sitting between 700 and 1,263 metres in the Wehra valley, has spent decades earning the official title of Climate Health Resort, and it wears that designation quietly.
A hundred kilometres of signed trails fan out from a compact centre of resort gardens, a promenade, and a few street cafés. On clear days, the 1925 wooden Hochkopf tower opens up a 360-degree panorama that reaches the Swiss Alps.
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People who come back tend to mention the same few things: the Hohoffsstollen show mine, where nickel and magnetic gravel were pulled from the earth until 1937, repays a second look once you know what you're reading in the rock. And the Hohe-Möhr-Turm, all 30 metres of it, is quieter than Hochkopf and worth the detour.
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The settlement appears in records as early as 1267 — a few cottages and a church dedicated to Our Lady. Eight years later it passed to the Habsburgs, who held it for more than five centuries until 1806, when the Grand Duchy of Baden absorbed it following the Napoleonic reorganisation of the region.
Market rights came in 1778, giving Todtmoos the legal standing to hold fairs and trade gatherings. The period between 1847 and 1927 reshaped it most visibly: a health resort, a tuberculosis sanatorium, a town hall, a forestry office, the Hohe-Möhr-Turm (1894), electrical lines and roads all arrived in quick succession. A unified municipality was formalised in 1935, and a further administrative reorganisation in 1973 moved it into the Waldshut district.
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When to go
Summers are comfortable but genuinely wet — July averages 17°C and is also the rainiest month, so a waterproof layer earns its place in the pack. Winters are cold and snowy, with January dipping to around -1°C on average, which suits the sled-race atmosphere but demands proper kit.
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