Schorndorf is a small town in the Rems Valley east of Stuttgart, best known as the birthplace of Gottlieb Daimler, the automotive pioneer. His birth house on Höllgasse is now a small museum. The old town centre is well-preserved — half-timbered houses around a market square, the kind of quiet, handsome Swabian town that rarely makes it into guidebooks but rewards a wander.
The Burgschloss, a moated castle in the centre, houses the town museum. The surrounding Rems Valley is wine country — the local Trollinger and Lemberger are worth trying at one of the Besenwirtschaften (seasonal taverns run by wine producers) that open in the villages around Schorndorf.