Chiemgau - Chiemgau

The Chiemgau is a pre-alpine landscape in Upper Bavaria with many lakes, of which the Chiemsee is the third largest lake in Germany.

Regions

places

• Aschau im Chiemgau − Shot Hohenaschau and cable car to the rock formation Kampenwand with a view of the Chiemsee.
• Bad Adelholzen;
• Bad Endorf (522 m) market town and spa with iodine thermal springs;
• Mountains
• Bernau am Chiemsee
• Chieming on the eastern shore of the Chiemsee
• Eggstätt am Hartsee with Eggstätter Seenplatte
• Gstadt am Chiemsee
• Inzell
• Marquartstein
• Prien am Chiemsee
• Reit im Winkl with the Winklmoosalm;
• Rimsting on the Chiemsee
• Ruhpolding (625 m to 1,961 m), tourism and winter sports
• Seebruck on the northwest bank of the Chiemsee
• Schneizlreuth (511 m), in the Saalachtal on the edge of the Berchtesgaden Alps
• Seeon (537 m): Resort in a lake landscape with the former Benedictine monastery Seeon on a peninsula in the Klostersee
• Surberg
• Traunstein
• Overseas south of the Chiemsee
• Waging by the lake
• Weißbach on the Alpine Road (627 m), holiday community in the Weißbachtal;

background

The Chiemgau region is not precisely defined geographically; it is mainly distributed over the area of ​​the Traunstein district and the Rosenheim district.

language

getting there

By plane

• Closest major international airport is 48.35388888888911.786111111111Munich Airport(IATA: MUC), it's a good hour's drive away.

• The 47.79444444444413.003333333333Salzburg Airport(IATA: SZG) is the closest airport to Chiemgau. It is located approx. 40 km from Traunstein away. From here you can via 48.11027816.569722Airport Wien-Schwechat(IATA: VIE) fly all over the world.

• From the southern Chiemgau there is also the 47.26027777777811.343888888889Innsbruck airport(IATA: INN) as an approach station, as you can get to Rosenheim quickly from Innsbruck.

By train

The most important railway connection through the region is the line Munich - Salzburg with several stops in Rosenheim, Bad Endorf, Prien and Traunstein for IC trains. The Austrian Railjet drive through.

Modern Meridian trains run every hour between Salzburg and Munich Bavarian Oberland Railway. These trains run between Rosenheim and München-Ost without stopping.

In the street

• The federal motorway A 8 Munich – Salzburg leads through the Chiemgau with several descents, but is often overloaded and sometimes has no hard shoulder.

mobility

Tourist Attractions

• Seeon Monastery, former imperial monastery in a picturesque location on a peninsula in the Klostersee Seeon and today a venue for concerts, exhibitions and lectures.

Castles and Palaces

• Royal Castle Herrenchiemsee Castle: see the article on the Chiemsee;

• Hohenaschau, high above the Priental, one of the mightiest castles on the edge of the Alps with falconry: see in Aschau.

Museums

• Museum Portal Chiemgau
• Priental Museum in Hohenaschau Castle: see in Aschau.
• Amerang Farmhouse Museum, Hopfgarten 2, Amerang, info, Branch museum of the open-air museum in Glentleiten.

Open April to early November Tuesday-Sunday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Arrival: From Munich via the B304 via Wasserburg in the direction of Obing, follow the signs for "Bauernhausmuseum".

Public Transport: From Bad Endorf in summer on Sundays with the Chiemgau local railway

• Museum Klaushäusel on the B305 between Rottau and Grassau. Open May - mid-Oct, Tue-Sat 10 a.m.-12 p.m. and 2 p.m.-5 p.m., Sun 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Museum Salt: Brine pumping station, drive with a water column pump w: water column machine

Museum Moor: Plants and fauna of the Chiemseemore

Lakes and bodies of water

• The Chiemsee, the Bavarian Sea, with Herreninsel, Herrenchiemsee Castle and Fraueninsel with the monastery;

• Eggstätt-Hemhofer Lake District, a nature reserve Bad Endorf with an area of ​​around 1,000 hectares, 18 individual lakes with a total water area of ​​around 3.5 km² and various moors.

activities

kitchen

nightlife

security

Since time immemorial, sinkholes, so-called thunder holes, have occurred in the area around Kienberg. New earth collapses occur especially after strong thunderstorms. The leaching of fine sediments in the subsoil creates cavities whose loamy cover suddenly gives way. The list kept by the home nurse has comprised a total of 114 cases since 1910. Thanks to the work of the Technical University of Munich, the list could be expanded to 194 cases.^[1]

The Donnerloch with its considerable depth of at least six meters, which was discovered by a mushroom picker on October 25, 2013 in a forest between Kienberg and Viehhausen, attracted particular attention.^[2]

climate

literature

see also in the article on Chiemsee

• Wolfgang Dietzen / Josef Reiter (photos): Nature and culture guide Chiemsee. Chiemgau publishing house, ISBN 978-3-00-027398-8 ; 96 pages. € 12.90

• Josef Reiter / Michael Lohmann: Natural paradise Chiemsee and Chiemgau Alps. Chiemgau publishing house, ISBN 978-3-00-027398-8 ; 96 pages. € 29.80

• Hans Gardener: Enigmatic Chiemgau, on the trail of the country and its people. Chiemgau publishing house, ISBN 978-3-9813620-6-0 ; 96 pages. € 12.90

• different authors ; House of Bavarian History (Ed.): Chiemgau. regensburg: Blow, 2011, EDITION BAVARIA # 04, ISBN 978-3791722696 ; 88 pages. Price: 8 €

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• Michael Petzet, Gotthard Kießling, and Dorit Reimann ; Bavaria, State Office for Monument Preservation, Munich (Ed.): Monuments in Bavaria, vol. 1/22: Traunstein district, 2 vol. Munich: Art publisher Josef Fink, 2007, Monuments in Bavaria, ISBN 978-3898703642 ; 1182 pages. List of monuments, approx. 68 €

cards

• Cycling and hiking map of the Chiemgau Lake District 1: 30,000. ISBN 978-3-89920-582-4 . 4,95 €

Web links

• Falconry Hohenaschau Castle;

• District of Traunstein: www.traunstein.com;

• official tourism site for the Chiemgau: www.chiemgau-tourismus.de;