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KiEFERSFELDEN [ 1 ]
Border town between Bavaria and Tyrol: 6,259 inhabitants. The“ Kaisergebirge” is the dominating mountain range. Old parish Church of the Holy Cross( 1315, renovated in Baroque style 1685) and beautiful mountain cemetery. Kiefersfelden is situated at the point where the Ice-Age Inn glacier left the mountains and formed a huge lake, the size of present-day Lake Constance, stretching from Kiefersfelden to Wasserburg. Lake terraces of clay deposits, fossils of sea creatures and glacial moraines are still visible today. Many floods in previous times, forming lakes that still exist today. The area has been settled since the Late Stone Age, Illyrians and Celts were followed around AD 530 by“ Bajuwarii”, who gave Bavaria its name. Charcoal kilns( plenty of wood available) and smithies with old dwellings date from this period. One of the oldest dwellings is the Blaahaus, built as a worker’ s cottage in 1696 and used as a museum since 1996. Kiefersfelden Medieval Festival: Germany’ s oldest village theatre( founded in 1618);“ Chivalric” plays are performed on the Baroque stage in July and August – most of them written in the 19 th century by Joseph Schmalz, the“ Kiefersfelden Shakespeare”, who was in fact a charcoal burner from the Austrian Ziller Valley. Probably the most unusual theatre in the whole of Germany. Wachtl Express: 5 km-long electric narrow-gauge( 900mm) railway. Engines and rolling stock date from 1912 – 1930, passenger travel on 7 weekends in the year, otherwise used for transporting goods: 12 – 14 trains run a day, each carrying 400 tons of chalk from Thiersee in Tyrol to the cement factory in Kiefersfelden. Ferry across the 115 m-wide Inn, made of larch and pulled by cable, for 12 passengers. Pleasure cruises on the Inn, from Bavaria to Tyrol; May to October.
Brannenburg / WendelsteiN [ 2 ]
Situated south of Rosenheim, the 1,838 m-high Wendelstein is one of the northernmost outposts of the Alps with wonderful views. Historic cog railway, built by Otto von Steinbeis in 1912, the first mountain railway in the Bavarian Alps. Since 1970: Large cable car on the west side of the Wendelstein. GEO PARK Wendelstein – 250 million years of Earth history: several paths; insightfully presented information.
RosenheiM [ 3 ]
The economic and cultural metropolis of southeast Bavaria, 60,000 inhabitants, 446 metres above sea level. Castle first mentioned in 1234, salt-mining from the 16th cent., salt works built in 1810; city from 1864; 15 th cent. church expanded in 1881 in Neo-Gothic style; beautiful town-houses with arcades. Lively culture and art scene: Arts +
Congress Centre, the famous“ Engine Shed” Exhibition Centre, Municipal Art Gallery and Museums: Municipal Museum, Woodcraft Museum, Inn Museum. Popular location for scientific and research institutes, e. g. for wood processing and synthetic materials.
Aschau im ChiEMGAU [ 8 ]
Castle Hohenaschau, 12 th-cent., extensive( one of the largest in Upper Bavaria) with Priental museum; today’ s castle is mainly 17 th-cent., Knights’ Hall, state rooms. Parish church with twin towers and ceiling paintings( 1690). Germany’ s first nature trail suitable for the disabled( at the Moor swimming pool).
BERNAU AM CHIEMSEE
Wendelstein cable car in Brannenburg
Traunstein with its town square and St. Oswald parish church. Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his first mass here.
Paradise for cyclists … 30 bike tours between the“ Bavarian Sea” and the Chiemgau Alps. Set out from Bernau and discover the most beautiful bike tours imaginable, described in detail in our brochure. Or they can be downloaded from the Internet. Internationally acclaimed self-guided path for radio-aesthetics and geomancy in the Kurpark. Over 22 carefully surveyed points, as well as a unique double energy pyramid created by Heinz H. Grothoff. Weekly tours in summer. Information available from Bernau Tourist Office: 0049( 0) 8051-9868-0, www. bernau-am-chiemsee. de
AMERANG [ 12 ]
Castle Amerang, 16 th cent., Renaissance arcaded courtyard, Knights’ Hall, late-Gothic castle chapel, 1530. Farmhouse museum, 15 objects from the area between Inn and Salzach, 4 ha. EFA Car Museum, nostalgic technology from 1886 to the present day and the world’ s largest model railway.
Double energy pyramid in Bernau
Wellness at the Bonnschlössl, Bernau
Obing
St. Laurentius Church, 1491; 3 over-size carved figures on the main altar by the“ Master of Rabenden”, 1515. Swimming opportunities on Lake Obing.
Rabenden
A masterpiece in the village church – the late- Gothic altar from 1510. Carved figures of three apostles by the“ Master of Rabenden”; altar wings with paintings from Salzburg; precious side altars; cemetery with wrought-iron crosses on the graves, 18 th – 19 th cent.
Altenmarkt an der Alz [ 9 ]
Baumburg Abbey, enthroned high above the Alz valley, with the church of St. Margaretha, 11 th cent., Augustinian canons; first monks from Berchtesgaden; renowned school for hundreds of years; Double tower with Romanesque abbey church, Baroque onion tower; interior décor – a jewel of the Bavarian Rococo: colorful frescos on the ceiling, playful shell stucco work(“ Master of Wessobrunn”); stations of the cross, 1709; carved choir stalls; gravestones from the 12 th – 15 th cent.
Stein an der Traun
Home to a three-part ruin of a robber-knight’ s castle, on the steep Nagelfluhwand( 48 m) before the River Traun flows into the Alz; Rock- or cave-castle, 12 th cent., dug into the rock face by the Lords of Stein: largest and best preserved cave fortress in Germany. Above this lies the high castle, below is the new castle( 16 th cent.) rampart( 11 th cent.); Visit the rooms and hallways of the robber knights. Subterranean walk-way from the castle to the cave.