Deutschland-Ticket · €49/mo
All German regional trains (RE/RB), buses & trams. No ICE / IC high-speed.
Bavaria, Black Forest, Rhine castles
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Every itinerary is fully covered by the pass — open one for the station-by-station guide.
Bavaria Classic: Munich to Nuremberg
Fairy-tale castles, the Romantic Road and medieval old towns — all on regional rail.
Black Forest Slow Loop
Cuckoo clocks, waterfalls and spa towns on the scenic Schwarzwaldbahn — zero ICE needed.
Rhine Valley Castles
The UNESCO Middle Rhine by regional train — a castle around every bend.
Moselle Wine Valley
The slowest, curviest river valley in Germany — Riesling terraces, a hilltop Reichsburg and Roman Trier.
Baltic Coast & Rügen Island
Hanseatic brick Gothic, seaside piers and chalk cliffs — the RE 9 runs the whole coast to Binz.
Harz Mountains & Half-Timbered Towns
Mine shafts, witches’ legends and two UNESCO old towns on the northern rim of the Harz.
Lake Constance Rim
Three countries share the water — you only need the German shore: islands, zeppelins and a harbour lion.
Dresden & Saxon Switzerland
Baroque skyline, then sandstone pinnacles an S-Bahn ride away — finish in Görlitz, Germany’s film-set town.
Allgäu Alps from Munich
Castles first, then the highest village railhead in Germany — gorges, cable cars and alpine meadows.
Thuringia: Erfurt, Weimar & the Wartburg
Luther, Goethe and Bauhaus within forty regional-rail minutes of each other.
Berlin to Hamburg the Slow Way
The zero-euro answer to the ICE sprint — regional trains down the Elbe past a lakeside ducal palace at Schwerin.
Frankfurt to Munich Without the ICE
Swap the high-speed dash for a wine-town crawl through Würzburg and Franconia — same two cities, none of the fare.
Heidelberg & the Neckar Valley
Germany’s most romantic ruin, then upriver on the S-Bahn through a chain of castle towns to timber-framed Bad Wimpfen.
Sylt & the North Frisian Marsh
The Marschbahn crosses the Hindenburg causeway to Germany’s chic sand-spit island — thatched Frisian roofs and Wadden Sea flats on the way.
Hamburg to Cologne by Regional
The northern trunk on local trains — Hanseatic Bremen and brick-Gothic Münster break up the ICE corridor into a real trip.
Cologne to Frankfurt Along the Rhine
Skip the high-speed tunnel line for the river route — the MittelrheinBahn hugs the water past Bonn, the Rhine gorge and the Mainz cathedral.
Palatinate Wine Road
Germany’s warmest wine country — Riesling and Grauburgunder tastings between half-timbered market squares on the little Nordbahn.
Garmisch & the Zugspitze Country
The Werdenfelsbahn climbs from Munich into the Wetterstein — Germany’s highest peak overhead, a painted market town and a gorge below Mittenwald.
Chiemsee & Berchtesgaden
The Bavarian Sea and the deepest alpine corner of Germany — a royal island palace, then salt mines and the Watzmann on the Meridian line.
Usedom: the Imperial Baths
The Usedomer Bäderbahn runs behind the dunes of the sunniest island in Germany — three linked resorts of white Bäderarchitektur and long piers.
Ruhr Industrial Heritage
Coal and steel turned culture — a UNESCO colliery, a blast-furnace park you climb at night and a harbour of contemporary art, all on the dense RE network.
Spreewald Punts & Canals
An hour from Berlin the Spree fans into a maze of canals — punt between Sorbian villages, gherkin stalls and alder islands, then finish in Cottbus.
The Brothers Grimm Fairy-Tale Road
Follow the Grimms by regional train — from their Hanau birthplace and Steinau childhood to the Marburg lecture halls and the Kassel museum that keeps their manuscripts.
Franconian Wine: Würzburg & the Main
Bocksbeutel country — baroque Würzburg, then regional trains to the Main wine port of Kitzingen and walled Iphofen under the Steigerwald slopes.
Ahr Valley Red Wine
Germany’s red-wine gorge, its little Ahrtalbahn rebuilt after the 2021 flood — Spätburgunder cellars, a walled old town and cliffs above the vines.
Mecklenburg Lake District
Germany’s largest lakeland — a residential palace garden, the Müritz shore and a little island town on the Berlin–Rostock regional line.
Lahn Valley: Limburg to Wetzlar
The Lahntalbahn threads a green river valley — a seven-spired cathedral, a baroque schloss with a ship tunnel and the old-town lanes where young Goethe fell for Lotte.
Weser Renaissance & the Pied Piper
Ornate gabled towns along the Weser — the Pied Piper’s Hameln, a UNESCO abbey at Höxter and the timber-framed river port of Hann. Münden.
Saale-Unstrut: Europe’s Northern Vineyards
The northernmost quality-wine region in Europe — a UNESCO cathedral, sparkling-wine cellars under a hilltop castle and the valley where the Sky Disc was found.
East Frisia & the North Sea Mole
Flat green polders to the Wadden Sea — a canal-ringed harbour city, Emden’s Expressionist art and the ferry pier at Norddeich for the car-free islands.
Cities & attractions on these routes
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