Anyone been to the Black Forest?

We've booked flights for September, it'll be our honeymoon.

I had briefly looked at accommodation before booking the flights and thought I'd seen some things I liked, but now that we're looking properly, I'm not so sure.

I thought we'd be able to find a nice log cabin type place to rent but most of the cabin-y kinda places seem to be in complexes and rather family orientated. There's a few nice apartments but again, in complexes, probably aimed at the skiers.

We fly in and out of Basel and are staying for a fortnight. We plan to hire a car and visit Switzerland, Austria, Lichtenstein and maybe Luxembourg too. Any suggestions of must sees or must dos for that part of the world?

Freiburg im Breisgau, Sankt Blasien, Feldberg, Titisee (quiet at the back), Baden-Baden, Burg Hohenzollern, Schluchsee, and make sure you do lots of walking in beautiful forests.

I don't know it well and I'm sure there are lots of hidden gems.

Edit: Here's a web-site that has an English version:

http://www.black-forest-travel.com/

Also, just realised you'll be ranging very far. Heidelberg and Strasbourg are always worth a visit, although not in the Black Forest. Ulm is relatively close, as is Tübingen.

Spent a year working in Hinterzarten back in the day, one stop before Titisee on the train if you're heading up the mountain. Lovely village, centre of elite German ski jumping, home of German champion Dieter Thoma.

Freiburg was lovely. Great music scene, particularly jazz. Spent a few nights at the Jazzhaus and here: http://www.jazzohnestress.de. Jazz festival is also in September, and had some amazing artists when I was there (Joshua Redman, Branford Marsalis, Diane Reeves).
http://www.jazzfestival-freiburg.de. Nice to walk by the river if weather is good. Feierling by Augustinerplatz was my favourite brew pub/Biergarten.

Titisee definitely worth a visit. You can swim across, and there's a shop with more cuckoo clocks than you've ever seen. There's nice walking from Titisee to Hinterzarten. You can mountain bike 25km back down the mountain too, though I only did this once.

Tinguely museum in Basel is really good, but Basel itself is otherwise boring.

Echo the Schickmeister's comments on Strasbourg (+ Kandinsky Museum) and Heidelberg. Colmar too. Stuttgart is not far if you're a motoring fan (not to mention Hockenheim if you're in Heidelberg.

Freiburg im Breisgau

I went to school in Freiburg.

(For one week)

/csb

Spent 4-5 months working in Heidelberg back in the day.
Lovely town. Best kebab shop, one in town, on Hauptstrasse.
Worth a trip for the castle.

Freiburg is lovely + 1

We sort-of accidentally rode through it on a loaded tandem. It was hilly. Probably the hardest thing I've ever done on a bike. Worse than the time we accidentally discovered the Cantals. Actually maybe not worse than accidentally pissing about near O Cadromon, but more consistent.

Looking at the contours (which due to poor planning we were unable to do at the time), I can now see a much easier way of doing things :|

People were nice, views were good and food was tasty. Would go back.

Friedrichsgymnasium?

Cheers all, we've booked an apartment just east of Triberg in the Black Forest for the first week then a hotel in Lech and another apartment somewhere in Switzerland for the 2nd week.

Apartment in the Black Forest does look a bit family-y but its costing us buttons and the area it's in seems nice, pretty rural and stuff.

Looking forward to Lech, or more specifically this,

My fiancé suffers quite bad vertigo, especially on less solid structures. The floor of the bridge is basically chicken wire...

My parents live in Sankt Blasien :-)

You can check it our here:
http://stadt.stblasien.de/Aktuelles/Webcams

You need to look in the day time really though! It's a lovely area. For cycling my favourite strava segment is this https://www.strava.com/segments/1805445
You have to love a segment where the KOM is achieved wit less than 10kph :-P

Here is an up to date guide to cycling in the region;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Men_on_the_Bummel
(joke)
My wife's from here, so I will point her here for proper advice, but going south from Freiburg, up the shauinsland is a climb of alpine proportions, 12% to start, flattens out at the top, has been on the tour twice, then I would recommend Todtnauberg, that's 3 hours good riding, then head up to feldburg and drop down to titisee over the other side.
Mountain huts here are great, open all year, I was in one at 1150m at Todtnauberg last month and the BF gateaux was amazing, and so cheap.

I've just re-read that and realised you are fly-driving, sorry for all the bike related nonsense. Forget all the above advice; but forget Luxembourg, it's miles away and not all that, similarly Lichtenstein. Austria is 4 hours drive from Basel. All the good german stuff is still in german, as most of the tourists are german, google search in english hides all the really good stuff. As I said I'll get my wife on here, but unless you like 5* hotels and chi chi cafes, avoid Baden Baden.

Cheers for the webcam link, but it's making me gutted that there won't be snow when we are there!

@Backsplash yeah unfortunately no bikes. Though I think the hotel we booked in Lech does free bike rental to guests so might get to at least turn a pedal in the fortnight we're away.

Looking forward to all that gateaux for sure!

I have a little bit of German so hopefully I'll manage where there's less english.

Cheers.