Guided tours
Stocky's Bächle-Spaziergang - The Bächleputzer City-Tour - with Stocky, the original Bächleputzer!
Stocky, the stream cleaner
Thursday, 10/10/2024 / 04:30 PM / Betty BBQ Meeting Point
Freiburg has a lot to offer - and the Freiburg "Bächle" are certainly one of the biggest landmarks of the city in Breisgau. They are a world-famous tourist attraction that can only be found in this form in the "sunny city" in the southwest. It is undisputed: The Freiburg gutters are as much a part of Freiburg as the cathedral and the Black Forest; no city tour or travel guide can do without them.
As a historical irrigation and drainage system - an innovation from and in the Middle Ages - the Freiburg gutters are the workplace of Alain, our real "Bächleputzer", who is affectionately called "Stocky" by the people of Freiburg. As a stream cleaner, he keeps a daily eye on the many medieval watercourses that run through the historic center of the Black Forest metropolis in Baden. The small canals are called "Bächle" in Alemannic dialect - and Alemannic is also Stocky's mother tongue.
On the Bächle walk with our Stocky, he will take you on a walk through Freiburg's old town along selected Bächle - in his Alemannic dialect, mind you. He gives exclusive insights behind the scenes of the Bächle system and into what is probably the oldest profession in the city in Breisgau, that of the Bächle cleaner.
Stocky is sure to have one or two anecdotes from his everyday working life - which sometimes make you smile - as well as from many centuries of Bächle stories!
And all this exclusively in the city tour program of Freiburg's "Living Sight", Black Forest Drag Queen Betty BBQ. Have fun!
Please note the following brief information:-
Informative and interactive (questions allowed!) Bächle walk with the original Bächleputzer Stocky.
- The focus is on Freiburg gutters and the activities and profession of the brook cleaner.
- Guided by Stocky, the original Freiburg stream cleaner!
- Duration of the tour around 90 minutes
- Participation from 0 years, from 0 to 18 years only when accompanied by a parent/guardian
- Please note our rules for participation in city and pub tours at https://betty-bbq.com/cms/regeln/
- Please note our coronavirus-related instructions for all city tours at https://betty-bbq.com/cms/corona/
- The Freiburg gutters are subject to regular inspections as well as maintenance and cleaning work, during which the central water supply may be changed or switched off. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that the Bächle will carry water on every event date.
- This city tour - both the exclusive and the public version - will only ever be led by Stocky.
- We will try to arrange a meeting with Betty BBQ during the Bächleputzer City Tour, but this is usually not possible due to overlapping dates.