Sights

In every season of the year, there is lots to see and to explore in Heidelberg and its surroundings. To help you with your vacation plans, please find a list of must sees and other things to do during your visit below:

Distances

Your destination in the Rhein-Neckar Area, for leisure or for business, is close and easy to reach from Hotel Heidelberg, skipping the downtown traffice of Heidelberg:

ADM/Wild Dairy/Capri Sun: 4 km
Heidelberg Main train station: 4 km
Heidelberg Congress Center (Opening 2023): 4 km
Schwetzingen: 10 km
SAP Walldorf: 12 km / SAP St. Leon Rot: 20 km
SNP Dome (MLP Academics/Rhein-Neckar-Löwen): 3 km
Mannheim Maimarkt grounds: 15 km
Mannheim City center & Mannheim Rosengarten: 20 km
Sinsheim & Fair grounds Sinsheim: 35 km
Speyer: 25 km
Frankfurt & Airport Frankfurt Rhein-Main (FRA): ca. 90 km
Stuttgart & Airport Stuttgart: ca. 120 km

Events 2023


07.04.-10.04.2023	Easter
13.03.-08.10.2023	Garden show Mannheim - BUGA23
05.-07.05.2023	Bosch Historic Hockenheim
13.05.2023	Elton John, SAP Arena
18.-21.05.2023	German Holiday Weekend
26.05.2023	Ozzy Osbourne + Judas Priest, SAP Arena - cancelled
26.05.-29.05.2023	German Holiday Weekend
03.06.2023	Castle illumination Heidelberg
08.-11.06.2023	German Holiday Weekend
23.-24.06.2023	Download Music Festival, Motodrom Hockenheim
08.07.2023	Heidelberg castle illumination
21.07.2023	Bruce Springsteen, Motodrom Hockenheim
25.-27.08.2023	Nitr / Olympix Hockenheim
02.09.2023	Heidelberg castle illumination
14.-17.09.2023	Glücksgefühle Music Festival, Motodrom Hockenheim - Sido, Sarah Conner, Cro, Felix Jaehn and more
29.09.-01.10.2023	Street festival in the old town
20.-22.10.2023	DTM Final Race Hockenheim
from approx. 27.11.2023	Heidelberg christmas market + ice skating rink

	Due to permanent changes, we cannot guarantee the dates of these events, please double-check the dates with the organizer or promoters of the events.

Heidelberg

Take the funicular up to the castle with Perkeos big barrel and the pharmacy museum, Student prison, University, Old Bridge, Kurpfalz region museum, packaging museum, church visits, boat ride on the Neckar on a traditional boat or on the solar boat, walk the Philosophers path, Segway Safari, climbing, Heidelberg Zoo, Bonsai museum, botanical garden, theaters and many more.

For your bike tour, we offer rental bikes in different sizes (charge).

The Heidelbergs tourist office offers city tours, sightseeing tours and walking tours for every taste.
And don't forget to shop in Heidelbergs main street, the Hauptstraße. With a length of 1.6 km it is the longest pedestrian zone in Europe!

Surroundings

Schwetzingen: Castle and castle gardens
Speyer: Dome, Museum, Car- and Technical Museum, Sealife
Wine Region: e.g. Edenkoben, Deidesheim, Bad Dürkheim
Sinsheim: Car- and Technical museum, Rhein-Neckar-Stadium for a soccer game
Mannheim: Mannheim Castle, Planetarium, Luisenpark

Amusement parks: Holiday Park Hassloch, Park with wild animal refuge Tripsdrill

More to see and do in: Bad Wimpfen, "Die Bergstraße", Weinheim, Odenwald, "Die Burgenstraße", Burg Guttenberg mit falconry, Mauer - Archeological site of Homo Heidelbergensis, Worms, German Wine route, Deidesheim, UNESCO Geo-Nature Park

Golfing in the Heidelberg area

Golfclub Wiesloch-Hohenhardter Hof: 18-hole course in 69168 Wiesloch.
St. Leon-Rot: Two 18-hole courses in 68789 St. Leon-Rot, has been named Germanys best golf course
Golfclub Heidelberg-Lobenfeld: 18-hole course in 74931 Lobbach-Lobenfeld
Golfclub Sinsheim-Buchenauerhof: 18-hole course in 74889 Sinsheim
Golf Club Bensheim: 18-hole course in 64625 Bensheim
Baden Golf & Country Club: 9-hole course & 18-hole course in 76684 Östringen-Tiefenbach