Bade-Wurtemberg hotels collection

At Maulbronn, the Cistercians dug ponds and channels around the abbey to manage its water. The cloister is sandstone. In the Swabian Jura, fine particles of limestone dye the Blautopf, the spring at Blaubeuren, a dense blue. On Lake Constance, the monks of Reichenau left Romanesque churches and vegetable gardens that still feed the shore. At Gutach, in the Black Forest, the whitened straw hat carries woollen pompoms, red for unmarried girls, black for married women.