The best walks and hikes around Oberviechtach

A very beautiful castle ruin

Old train station of Oberviechtach, where the Bavarian-Bohemian cycle path also passes.

The Bavarian-Bohemian Cycle Route passes by here.

Pilgrimage Church of St. James Also known as St. James' Church or popularly known as "da Jakowe", it is located half a kilometer east of the village of Fuchsberg on the Way of St. James from Prague to Nuremberg at the fork in the road to Hebermühle. The church's beginnings go back a long way in history: According to popular belief, there was a masonry monument with a wooden portrait of St. James on the site of the current church. It is historically proven that the church was built in the 18th century. According to sources, the founders were Count Carl Clement von Taufkirchen zu Fuchsberg and his wife Eleonora. The background to the foundation is a vow: the founders asked St. James to protect their son from injury and death in the Turkish wars. A picture on the gallery shows the saint riding alongside the Taufkirchen cavalry officer and protecting him. When this wish was granted, the couple had the Jakobi Church built in 1766. It appears to be a reconstruction of a church that had fallen into disrepair during the Reformation. There are around 80 seats in the interior of the church. The altarpiece shows Saint James with a shell and walking stick. The altar is flanked by two baroque candlesticks and the paintings "Washing of the Feet" and "Last Supper", which are attributed to Anton Merz from Neunburg. Figures of Saint Peter, Saint James the Elder and Saint Paul are to the left of the altar, and a crucifixion group is on the right. The gallery is decorated with paintings depicting Saint James. On the back wall under the gallery there are several votive tablets, two of which show "the image of Fuchsberg Castle from 1796" and the ruins of Wildstein Castle. In the middle under the gallery there is an oil painting of a Madonna of Mary Help of Christians by the Winklarn reverse glass painter Karl Josef Ruf the Elder, so that the depiction of Mary and the altarpiece form a longitudinal axis in the church. The pilgrimage church of St. Jakob was extensively renovated three times between 1962 and 1991, during which the masonry was restored, the pews from the Teunz parish church were installed, the roof was covered with larch shingles and the ridge turret with the bell was moved. Source: Excerpts from www.wikipedia.de / www.pfarrei-teunz.de

Pilgrimage Church of St. John Nepomuk - Johannisberg Church The pilgrimage to St. John Nepomuk at the Forst began when Pastor Florian Sigismund v. Miller from Oberviechtach built a small field chapel with a picture of John Nepomuk on the busy road from Regensburg to Bohemia in 1704. The chapel must have been very small. The pilgrimage was obviously very popular with the local population and passing traders, who donated generously to the small chapel, so that the desire to build a large pilgrimage church was soon expressed. Construction began in 1732: the farmers brought the necessary wood, stones and other materials. The church was built and fully furnished in just two years. Construction management was in the hands of unknown Electoral master masons from Amberg. Otherwise, the church as a whole is the creation of local craftsmen and artists. Spacious central building with a three-eighth choir, vaulted. The sacristy is attached to the north, with an upper floor as an oratory; they were only built in 1764/65. Nave has a flat roof with a cove. Gable turret. The stately high altar is dedicated to St. John Nepomuk. The altarpiece with the image of the church's patron saint by Matthias Pösl is flanked by two columns each; between the columns are the life-size figures of John the Baptist (left) and John the Evangelist (right). Above the altarpiece is a painting depicting God the Father, surrounded by numerous angel figures. The side altars are less elaborately designed: the left one is dedicated to the Queen of Heaven, the right one to St. Wendelin, the patron saint of cattle. The pulpit is erected on the left side of the nave, decorated with foliage and ribbon work and evangelist shields. Opposite is a high-quality, life-size wooden figure of St. John Nepomuk. The two late Gothic wooden relief figures of St. Barbara and St. Catherine are noteworthy. They appear very slim and delicate and were probably made around 1500. Where they came from and how they got to Johannesberg cannot be determined. An extensive renovation took place from 1972 to 1974. Source: Excerpts from pfarrei-oberviechtach.de/johannisberg/

"9-11 WTC Memorial Oberviechtach" The memorial is an artifact with two glass columns modeled on the World Trade Center. Next to it is a 160-centimeter-long piece of the original steel girder from the rubble of the destroyed World Trade Center. The memorial stands in the avenue of Oberviechtach on a base made of Upper Palatinate granite. This makes the small Upper Palatinate town the only place in Germany that has a piece of the destroyed twin towers. As Oberviechtach Mayor Rudolf J. Teplitzky told Bavarian Radio, the idea for the memorial goes back to a long friendship between the two fire departments. There have long been connections with mutual visits between members of the Oberviechtach fire department and members of the Freeport Fire Department in New York. The two started talking during a joint visit to the memorial at "Ground Zero" in New York. "It was said there that there were steel parts that were to be erected as memorials all over the world, and that's where the idea came from to bring one of these memorials to Oberviechtach." Martin Zimmermann, the then chairman of the Association of German-American Firefighters and Friends, had applied for a piece of rubble from the World Trade Center and was awarded the contract. Source: www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/einziges-deutsches-denkmal-fuer-9-11-steht-in-der-oberpfalz

A castle on a mountain top is certainly interesting. The children immerse themselves in their fairytale world and the parents enjoy the view 🥰.

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