Danube Valley Railway (Baden-Württemberg) Inzigkofen was pushed through by the German general staff, for whom the Danube Valley Railway was seen as a strategic railway in case of another war with France. Since 1901, the Danube Valley Railway, together with the Höllentalbahn (Schwarzwald), form part of the pan-regional railway link from Ulm to Freiburg im Breisgau. The Danube Valley Railway runs alongside the Danube river and crosses it several times. From Immendingen the line runs across the Upper Danube Nature Park "(Naturpark Obere Donau)", brushing up against the southern edge of the Schwäbische Alb, all the while following the course of the Danube. Between
Danube Hills Danube Hills The Danube Hills (), also variously called the Vorderer Forest, Anterior Bavarian Forest or Vorderer Wald ("Vordere Bayerische Wald"), is part of the Bavarian Forest, a low mountain range in Germany. In older geographical-regional literature the German name "Vordere Bayerische Wald" was applied to the whole southern chain of the Bavarian/Bohemian mountains between the Danube and the Regen, from the Keilberg Depression near Regensburg to the Austro-German border near Passau. Bernhard Grueber and Adalbert Müller described it in 1846 as the "äußern Wald" ('outer forest') "named the Regen Mountains by the geographers". Others chose the name Danube Hills