Have your holiday apartment let for you in the Black Forest
The Black Forest is 160 kilometres long, and each stretch has guests of its own: spa visitors in the north, walkers on more than 6,000 kilometres of marked trails, skiers on the Feldberg. We let apartments of our own here, in Bad Wildbad and Baden-Baden, and take on your flat with the same process — from the valuation to the monthly statement.
Why guests book in the Black Forest
These facts decide who books your flat — and what belongs in its listing.
- 160 km from Pforzheim to Waldshut, with over 6,000 km of waymarked paths
- The Feldberg, at 1,493 m, is Germany's highest peak outside the Alps
- A national park since 2014, roughly 10,000 hectares between Baden-Baden and Freudenstadt
- Two spa towns — Baden-Baden and Bad Wildbad — both in use since Roman times
When demand rises in the Black Forest
A pricing plan follows the region's occasions, not the calendar. One checkable reason for each travel period:
- New Year
- At New Year, altitude decides everything in the Black Forest: there is usually snow around the Feldberg and rarely any in the Rhine valley 1,300 metres below.
- Christmas
- Roughly 1,300 metres of altitude separate the Rhine valley from the Feldberg — whether you spend Christmas in snow is decided by height here, not by the date.
- Easter
- At Easter there can still be snow on the Feldberg while the fruit trees are in blossom in the Ortenau — the same weekend, 80 kilometres apart.
- Whitsun
- Whitsun marks the start of the dependable hiking season: the high paths along the Westweg are normally clear of snow from then on.
- Summer holidays
- Baden-Württemberg traditionally has the latest summer holidays in Germany, which pushes the Black Forest's high season well into September.
- Autumn holidays
- In October the beech forests turn at the same time as the grape harvest on the edges of the Black Forest.
- Winter holiday
- At 1,493 metres the Feldberg is the highest mountain in Germany outside the Alps, and has the longest snow season of any German uplands.
- Bridge days
- Baden-Württemberg is one of the few German states where Epiphany is a public holiday — 6 January gives a long weekend here that does not exist elsewhere.
- Weekend
- The northern Black Forest is a good hour from Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, which is why weekends here book out more heavily than whole weeks.
- Short break
- The Westweg runs 285 kilometres from Pforzheim to Basel and is divided into stages — a short break covers two or three of them.
- Ascension Day
- Ascension Day usually falls in the first dependably warm week: the high ground is clear of snow by then, but the lakes are still cold.
- Advent
- In Advent the Christmas markets in the Rhine valley and the snow on the heights are often half an hour's drive apart.
Our own apartments are here
We let holiday apartments of our own in the Black Forest. They show how we present the flats we take on for owners.
See our apartmentsWhy owners choose Aura Apart
- Dynamic pricing done properly — typically 30 to 60 percent more income than self-management
- Professional photography and listing optimisation, for visibility that compounds
- Guest communication in German and English around the clock — fast replies mean better reviews
- All the tax filings handled: accommodation and bed tax where the town charges one, and VAT
- A transparent monthly payout with a full statement
Seven signs that a Holiday letting mandate would pay for itself.
- You own an apartment that could work as a short-term or holiday let
- You want income from it without the day-to-day work
- Managing it yourself is taking too much time or patience
- You do not have the pricing or market knowledge to optimise rates
- The photography and listing quality are below what the platforms reward
- Tax filings, bed tax or change-of-use rules are unclear to you
- The apartment is empty, or let below what the market would pay
How a mandate works
1. We view the property
We visit your apartment free of charge and without obligation, and assess the location, the fittings, which kind of guest it suits (city break, wellness, family, bleisure) and the occupancy we would expect.
2. Positioning and pricing
We put together a letting plan: the audience, a photography brief, what we would add or change, and a pricing strategy by season. You get a written income forecast before anything is signed.
3. Listing and booking setup
Professional photography and listing copy for Airbnb, Booking.com and VRBO. We synchronise the calendars, fit the smart lock and set up the owner statement workflow.
4. Going live and running it
We go live and take on everything: guest communication, check-in, cleaning, maintenance, tax filings and the monthly payout. You see the income; we do the rest.
Holiday letting in towns of the region
Each of these towns has its own page for a mandate there.
Other models in the Black Forest
Your flat in the Black Forest: we will work out what it can earn
We look at your flat and prepare a written income forecast — free of charge and before anything is signed.