Schärding - Schärding

Schärding is a city in Upper Austria.

background

As a baroque city on Inn well-known district town of the district of the same name is opposite Neuhaus am Inn on the right bank of the Inn about 15 km south of the three-river city Passau. With the Peace of Teschen she came from the electorate in 1779 Bavaria (Kurpfalzbaiern) together with the Innviertel to Austria, where she stayed with brief interruptions.

getting there

By plane

The 48.35388888888911.786111111111Munich Airport(IATA: MUC) (Travel time on the autobahn approx. 90 minutes) and the 48.23333333333314.1875Linz Airport(IATA: LNZ) are easily accessible by car, bus and train. Munich has a lot more connections, Linz is a little closer.

By train

The nearest long-distance train station is Passau Central Station. The Schärding station can be reached with the regional express, which runs between Linz and Passau is wrong. Another rail connection exists to Ried im Innkreis.

By bus

In the street

From Germany preferably via the Federal motorway 3 to the Passau-Süd exit or the Pocking exit, from there 7 km on the federal road and across the Inn, which forms the border. From Vienna and Linz via the Innkreis Autobahn A8 to the Suben exit and from there another 10 km over the , alternatively (and toll-free) also via the Innviertler Strasse. From Munich the shortest via the not yet fully completed Federal motorway 94 or the Federal motorway 92 above Deggendorf and the BAB 3 or via the federal road that through the Rottal leads. From Switzerland via Munich.

By boat

Passau is easily accessible by ship. The earlier important shipping on the Inn has not taken place since the age of the railways.

mobility

The small old town can easily be tackled on foot. Parking possibilities o.a. at the upper town square and at the Silberzeile.

Tourist Attractions

• The city center with town houses from the 16th to 19th centuries, especially in the Silberzeile.
• The Catholic parish church of St. George.
• The former Heilig-Geist-Bürgerspitalkirche, now a hotel.

activities

• Museums:
  • The city ​​Museum in the former Vorburgtor; Schärding City Museum, Schlossgasse, A-4780 Schärding, Tel .: 43 7712/3154 700, E-Mail: [email protected].
  • The Granite Museum, Schlossgasse 10, A-4780 Schärding, Tel. 43 7712 3154700
• Water sports:
  • Rafting and canoeing on the Inn
  • Bathing in Stadtbad and at various quarry ponds in the vicinity (on the German side: Mittich near Neuhaus am Inn; Hartkirchen; Pocking; on the Austrian side: swimming ponds and eco-camp Stumergut in Eggerding (13 km away) with a campsite and nudist area.

shop

Dahoam - Angela Mittermayr, Unterer Stadtplatz 9, 4780 Schärding, Tel. 43 664 4304258, E-Mail: [email protected]

kitchen

• Hofaferne Neuburg, Am Burgberg 5, D-94127 Neuburg am Inn, Tel. 49 8507 923120, email [email protected]

nightlife

accommodation

• Hotel Forstinger, Unterer Stadtplatz 3, A-4780 Schärding, Austria
• Hotel Biedermeier Hof, Passauer Strasse 8, A-4780 Schärding, Austria

health

Practical advice

trips

The surrounding area with the southern foothills of the Bohemian mass with the Bohemian forest and the Bavarian forest offers a wide range of excursion and sightseeing opportunities on both the Upper Austrian and Lower Bavarian sides:

• The three river city Passau
• Neuhaus am Inn with the Neuhaus am Inn Castle beyond the Inn.
• Neuburg am Inn - towers high above the Inn Valley (on the Bavarian banks of the Inn) Neuburg Castlewhose roots go back to the 11th century.
• The worth seeing Trinity Church in the Dommelstadl district of Neuburg.
• Vornbach Monastery in the Innaue a little north on the German bank; near the Vornbacher Enge, a breakthrough of the Inn between the Neuburg Forest on German and the Sauwald on the Austrian side.
• Vichtenstein Castle high above the Danube west of Engelhartszell (can only be viewed from the outside)
• Engelhartszell With Trappist monastery in Engelszell, accessible via the Sauwaldstrasse (30 km).
• Augustinian canons of Reichersberg, the Bavarian Bad Ditzenbach opposite.

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