Attractions and Places To See around Kobernaußer Forest - Top 20

There are some steep climbs on the way up to the wind farm. It is interesting to see the wind farm. Unfortunately there is no view as the wind edges were built into the forest.

This is a great tour that will show you the natural beauty and history of the region. 😊 The tour is 51.6 km long and has a vertical drop of 713 m. It is classified as moderate and requires a good level of fitness and an off-road bike. The tour starts at the train station in Mauerkirchen and first takes you through the Kobernauerwald, the largest contiguous forest in Austria. On the way you will pass the Schachl Chapel, a small 18th-century church surrounded by an idyllic cemetery. You continue through the forest and pass the historic border between Bavaria and Austria, which is marked by a stone. You then reach the Turmwirt Kobernauserwald, a cozy inn with a lookout tower from which you have a wonderful view over the Innviertel. After a well-deserved break, you drive back through the Mattig Valley, through which the Mattig River flows. You follow the bike path along the river and enjoy the landscape of meadows, fields and villages. You will pass a beautiful vantage point in Seppenroith from which you can see the mountains. You continue through the towns of Uttendorf, Lengau and Friedburg, where you can discover many sights such as churches, castles and museums. You finally reach the train station in Mauerkirchen again, where your tour ends.

It is a 734 meter high mountain in the Hausruck and Kobernausserwald range in the Hausruckviertel. The summit is in the municipality of Pöndorf. To the northwest, the Rabenbachtal leads to the Hochecker Schwemmbachtal and thus to Mattig and Inn, to the west is the Fornacher Redltal, which drains with the Bruckwiesenbach to the Vöckla and via the Ager to the Traun. The mountain is mostly counted towards the Kobernausserwald, partly also towards the Hausruck – the demarcation of which is seen somewhere in the room. The name is likely to be of Slavic origin, -eis is a typical Windian educational syllable. In the Franciscan cadastre of the 1830s, a small hilltop settlement of Branauer is listed here, as well as an important border tree. There is said to have been an inn here. A single hut still stands today. A chapel is said to have stood nearby even earlier, according to Carl Schütz in 1787, in the south towards Meisterholz there is a St. Wolfgang. It must have fallen into disrepair by the 1830s. The mountain can be reached from all sides on numerous forest roads, through the valleys as well as along the ridges. A forest road also runs along the ridge itself. This makes the area good for hiking and mountain biking

The Grafenstein is the southernmost and most important of the 25 Austro-Bavarian boundary stones that are still standing on the current municipal boundary from Waldzell to Redleiten, Frankenburg, Fornach and Pöndorf. At the same time they form the district boundary between Innviertel and Hausruckviertel. From 1437 to 1779 this was also the state border between the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Archduchy of Austria. In the Archduchy of Austria, Maria Theresa ruled with her son Josef II, and in Bavaria Elector Karl Theodor von der Pfalz succeeded Elector Maximilian III Josef, who died childless in 1777. This border was very controversial throughout the 18th century, a clear border was only agreed in October 1770 between Count Johann Ludwig II Khevenhüller von Frankenburg and the Bavarian district court Friedburg, whose custodian from 1762-1779 was Josef Ferdinand, Count von Rheinstein and Tattenbach. After the border description by court clerk Johann Nißl from Friedburg, those border stones that had been in Forstern since 1601 were finally moved. The boundary stones have an engraved G.F. for Grafschaft Frankenburg on and on the Bavarian side is L.F. for the District Court of Friedburg. The coat of arms can still be seen on some of the stones. When the stones were set, they were only valid for a few more years as sovereign borders, because the Peace of Teschen ended the Bavarian War of Succession in 1779 and the Innviertel was awarded to Austria. Between 1805 and 1809 Napoleon Bonaparte occupied our homeland several times, from 1809 it was temporarily under Bavarian administration until the Innviertel finally became Austrian in 1816.

You really have to step in here. And again and again it goes further up when you can see around the next bend. 😉

ideal place to rest

Nice place for a short rest

Always beautiful up there