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Southern Germany: STEM Tour

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The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart is as much a work of architecture as a celebration of automotive history, its spiraling steel form glowing at dusk
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Overview
  • Duration:9 days 8 nights
  • Tour Type:Educational Tours
📍 Cities: Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Black Forest, Lake Constance, Munich, Kochel

Itinerary

Fly to GermanyDay 1

DAY 1: HOME - GERMANY

Board your transatlantic flight and fly through the night to Germany.

Arrival - Stuttgart Technik MuseumDay 2

DAY 2: FRANKFURT - STUTTGART

  • Welcome: Welcome to Germany! Meet your Prometour Tour Director upon arrival at the Frankfurt airport.
  • Technik Museum: At the Technik Museum, embark on a journey through time and discover the milestones of technical history - admire an impressive collection of vintage cars!
  • Dinner: Dinner at a local restaurant.
  • Overnight: Overnight accommodation in Stuttgart.

Mercedes-Benz Museum and Travel to Black ForestDay 3

DAY 3: STUTTGART - BLACK FOREST AREA

  • Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel.
  • Mercedes-Benz: Enter the Mercedes-Benz Museum - it celebrates the automobile invented by Carl Benz in 1886 and tells its stories in the context of technology, day-to-day life, social history, and popular culture.
  • Stuttgart: Have some time to explore Stuttgart at your own pace - make sure to explore Schlossplatz!
  • Travel: Board your bus and travel to the Black Forest Area.
  • Dinner: Dinner at a local restaurant.
  • Overnight: Overnight accommodation in the Black Forest Area.

Freiburg Green City Tour and Solar SettlementDay 4

DAY 4: BLACK FOREST AREA

  • Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel.
  • Freiburg Green City: Board your bus and travel to Freiburg. With its ambitious environmental policy and commitment to renewable energy, Freiburg is a Green City. Tour the city with a local guide and learn about its ecological, technical, and organizational solutions.
  • Solar Settlement: The solar settlement at Schlierberg is a 59-home PlusEnergy community in Freiburg - the first housing community to produce a positive energy balance. Tour the community and learn how each home is designed for maximum energy efficiency.
  • Dinner: Dinner at a local restaurant.
  • Overnight: Overnight accommodation in the Black Forest Area.

Sauschwanzlebahn Historic Steam Train and Lake Constance UNESCO SettlementsDay 5

DAY 5: BLACK FOREST AREA - LAKE CONSTANCE AREA

  • Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel.
  • Steam Train: On the Sauschwanzlebahn, an historic steam train, experience nostalgic flair surrounded by natural beauty. The route runs for 25 km with four bridges and six tunnels through the Black Forest.
  • Lake Constance: Board your bus and travel to Lake Constance.
  • UNESCO Settlements: The lake dwelling settlements are part of the UNESCO World Heritage. Rediscover the sunken village of Unteruhldingen and everyday life in the Stone and Bronze Age!
  • Dinner: Dinner at a local restaurant.
  • Overnight: Overnight accommodation in Lake Constance Area.

Wind Power Plant and Zeppelin Museum FriedrichshafenDay 6

DAY 6: LAKE CONSTANCE AREA

  • Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel.
  • Wind Power Plant: At the Verenafohren Energy Complex take part in a guided tour of the Wind Power Plant - it produces around 20 million kWh of electricity per year, enough for about 20,000 people.
  • Zeppelin Museum: Board your bus and travel to Friedrichshafen. Guided visit of the Zeppelin Museum - the permanent exhibition illustrates the "lighter than air" principle of flight through experimentation stations.
  • Dinner: Dinner at a local restaurant.
  • Overnight: Overnight accommodation in Lake Constance Area.

Travel to Munich - BMW MuseumDay 7

DAY 7: LAKE CONSTANCE AREA - MUNICH

  • Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel.
  • Travel: Board your bus and travel to Munich, capital of Bavaria.
  • BMW Museum: Visit the BMW Museum, located near the Olympia park. It showcases the history of the BMW company, its brand, and its products.
  • Explore: Enjoy some leisure time to explore Munich at your own pace.
  • Dinner: Dinner with your group at a local restaurant.
  • Overnight: Overnight accommodation in Munich.

Munich Old Town Walk and Kochel Hydroelectric PlantDay 8

DAY 8: MUNICH - KOCHEL - MUNICH

  • Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel.
  • Altes Munchen: Join a local guide on a walk through Altes Munchen - see Marienplatz with its glockenspiel, Briennerstrasse to Odeon Square.
  • Kochel: Board your bus and travel to Kochel. Partake in a guided visit of the Kochel Hydroelectric Plant - the cradle of industrial power in Bavaria with a production of 300 million kilowatt hours, one of the largest high-pressure storage power plants in Germany.
  • Return: Return to Munich.
  • Dinner: Dinner with your group at a local restaurant.
  • Overnight: Overnight accommodation in Munich.

Fly Back HomeDay 9

DAY 9: MUNICH - HOME

Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the airport. Say a fond goodbye to your Prometour Tour Director. Board your transatlantic flight from Munich and fly back home.

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Overview
  • Duration:9 days 8 nights
  • Tour Type:Educational Tours
📍 Cities: Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Black Forest, Lake Constance, Munich, Kochel

Itinerary

Fly to GermanyDay 1

DAY 1: HOME - GERMANY

Board your transatlantic flight and fly through the night to Germany.

Arrival - Stuttgart Technik MuseumDay 2

DAY 2: FRANKFURT - STUTTGART

  • Welcome: Welcome to Germany! Meet your Prometour Tour Director upon arrival at the Frankfurt airport.
  • Technik Museum: At the Technik Museum, embark on a journey through time and discover the milestones of technical history - admire an impressive collection of vintage cars!
  • Dinner: Dinner at a local restaurant.
  • Overnight: Overnight accommodation in Stuttgart.

Mercedes-Benz Museum and Travel to Black ForestDay 3

DAY 3: STUTTGART - BLACK FOREST AREA

  • Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel.
  • Mercedes-Benz: Enter the Mercedes-Benz Museum - it celebrates the automobile invented by Carl Benz in 1886 and tells its stories in the context of technology, day-to-day life, social history, and popular culture.
  • Stuttgart: Have some time to explore Stuttgart at your own pace - make sure to explore Schlossplatz!
  • Travel: Board your bus and travel to the Black Forest Area.
  • Dinner: Dinner at a local restaurant.
  • Overnight: Overnight accommodation in the Black Forest Area.

Freiburg Green City Tour and Solar SettlementDay 4

DAY 4: BLACK FOREST AREA

  • Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel.
  • Freiburg Green City: Board your bus and travel to Freiburg. With its ambitious environmental policy and commitment to renewable energy, Freiburg is a Green City. Tour the city with a local guide and learn about its ecological, technical, and organizational solutions.
  • Solar Settlement: The solar settlement at Schlierberg is a 59-home PlusEnergy community in Freiburg - the first housing community to produce a positive energy balance. Tour the community and learn how each home is designed for maximum energy efficiency.
  • Dinner: Dinner at a local restaurant.
  • Overnight: Overnight accommodation in the Black Forest Area.

Sauschwanzlebahn Historic Steam Train and Lake Constance UNESCO SettlementsDay 5

DAY 5: BLACK FOREST AREA - LAKE CONSTANCE AREA

  • Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel.
  • Steam Train: On the Sauschwanzlebahn, an historic steam train, experience nostalgic flair surrounded by natural beauty. The route runs for 25 km with four bridges and six tunnels through the Black Forest.
  • Lake Constance: Board your bus and travel to Lake Constance.
  • UNESCO Settlements: The lake dwelling settlements are part of the UNESCO World Heritage. Rediscover the sunken village of Unteruhldingen and everyday life in the Stone and Bronze Age!
  • Dinner: Dinner at a local restaurant.
  • Overnight: Overnight accommodation in Lake Constance Area.

Wind Power Plant and Zeppelin Museum FriedrichshafenDay 6

DAY 6: LAKE CONSTANCE AREA

  • Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel.
  • Wind Power Plant: At the Verenafohren Energy Complex take part in a guided tour of the Wind Power Plant - it produces around 20 million kWh of electricity per year, enough for about 20,000 people.
  • Zeppelin Museum: Board your bus and travel to Friedrichshafen. Guided visit of the Zeppelin Museum - the permanent exhibition illustrates the "lighter than air" principle of flight through experimentation stations.
  • Dinner: Dinner at a local restaurant.
  • Overnight: Overnight accommodation in Lake Constance Area.

Travel to Munich - BMW MuseumDay 7

DAY 7: LAKE CONSTANCE AREA - MUNICH

  • Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel.
  • Travel: Board your bus and travel to Munich, capital of Bavaria.
  • BMW Museum: Visit the BMW Museum, located near the Olympia park. It showcases the history of the BMW company, its brand, and its products.
  • Explore: Enjoy some leisure time to explore Munich at your own pace.
  • Dinner: Dinner with your group at a local restaurant.
  • Overnight: Overnight accommodation in Munich.

Munich Old Town Walk and Kochel Hydroelectric PlantDay 8

DAY 8: MUNICH - KOCHEL - MUNICH

  • Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel.
  • Altes Munchen: Join a local guide on a walk through Altes Munchen - see Marienplatz with its glockenspiel, Briennerstrasse to Odeon Square.
  • Kochel: Board your bus and travel to Kochel. Partake in a guided visit of the Kochel Hydroelectric Plant - the cradle of industrial power in Bavaria with a production of 300 million kilowatt hours, one of the largest high-pressure storage power plants in Germany.
  • Return: Return to Munich.
  • Dinner: Dinner with your group at a local restaurant.
  • Overnight: Overnight accommodation in Munich.

Fly Back HomeDay 9

DAY 9: MUNICH - HOME

Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the airport. Say a fond goodbye to your Prometour Tour Director. Board your transatlantic flight from Munich and fly back home.

Learning Objectives

Analyze the history and engineering of the automobile from Carl Benz’s 1886 invention to modern electric vehicles through the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart and the Volkswagen exhibition at the Stuttgart Technik Museum.

Investigate the principles and practice of sustainable urban planning through a guided tour of Freiburg – a UNESCO-recognized Green City – including its ecological, technical, and organizational solutions, and a visit to the Schlierberg PlusEnergy solar settlement.

Evaluate the engineering of renewable energy through a guided tour of the Verenafohren Wind Power Plant producing 20 million kWh per year and the Kochel Hydroelectric Plant – one of the largest high-pressure storage power plants in Germany.

Compare different forms of transportation technology including the historic Sauschwanzlebahn steam train, the Zeppelin airship at the Friedrichshafen Zeppelin Museum, and BMW automobiles at the Munich BMW Museum, examining Germany’s contribution to global transportation engineering.

Examine the UNESCO World Heritage lake dwelling settlements at Unteruhldingen on Lake Constance, connecting archaeological evidence of Stone and Bronze Age communities to modern German environmental stewardship.

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Landmark Highlights

  • Stuttgart: Technik Museum - milestones of technical history, vintage cars. Mercedes-Benz Museum - history of the automobile invented by Carl Benz in 1886.
  • Freiburg: Green City guided tour - ecological and sustainable energy solutions. Schlierberg PlusEnergy solar settlement - first housing community to produce a positive energy balance.
  • Sauschwanzlebahn: Historic steam train - 25km route through Black Forest with four bridges and six tunnels.
  • Lake Constance: UNESCO World Heritage lake dwelling settlements at Unteruhldingen - Stone and Bronze Age everyday life. Verenafohren Wind Power Plant - 20 million kWh per year. Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen - "lighter than air" principle of flight.
  • Munich: BMW Museum near Olympia Park - history of BMW company and products. Altes Munchen walking tour - Marienplatz glockenspiel.
  • Kochel: Kochel Hydroelectric Plant - cradle of industrial power in Bavaria, 300 million kWh production.
Why Choose Prométour?
100% Risk Free Registration (no costs)
30+ years of Experience
Customizable Itineraries
Guaranteed travel dates
No Hidden Fees, No Surprises
24 x 7 Dedicated support
Learn More

Frequently asked questions

Will my group be combined with another school group?

No. Every Prométour educational tour is personalized to ensure a meaningful experience. We guarantee private tours for all groups.

Your group will have its own dedicated Tour Director and itinerary, and will not be combined with any other school or student group.

How does Prométour support teachers with planning?

We take care of everything to make trip planning easy. From organizing travel logistics and accommodations to managing registrations, payments, and documentation, our team handles all the details so you can focus on the experience.

Support starts from day one. To help launch your trip, we host a parent meeting where your dedicated Tour Consultant introduces themselves, represents Prométour, and answers any parent questions directly.

Throughout the planning process, our expert Customer Service Team is available to assist families with registration, payments, and general inquiries, ensuring a smooth and stress-free experience for everyone involved.

When will our travel dates be confirmed?

Prométour trips are fully customizable, including your travel dates. You can choose the dates that best align with your school calendar, giving your group flexibility to coordinate extracurricular activities around the trip.

How does Prométour support our group during the trip?

With our own teams in locations such as Montréal, Paris, and Málaga, you get real people who are with your students and know the destination inside and out, not a call center just reading from a script.
If any issues arise while on tour, our 24/7 Emergency Line ensures that help is always just a phone call away. Your group will have access to real-time support whenever its needed.

What are Prométour's cancellation fees?

When you register for a Prométour trip, you can do so with confidence. If you cancel before the tour is officially confirmed, you'll receive a full refund with no questions asked.

Once the tour is confirmed, standard cancellation fees apply based on your departure date. Travelers may still be eligible for insurance coverage depending on their policy.

In some regions, and for travelers with an upgraded plan, Cancel For Any Reason (CFAR) insurance may be available. We recommend contacting the insurance provider directly for full details on coverage options.
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