Excursions around Bad Füssing

The position in the heart of Europe makes Bad Füssing to an ideal starting point for your vacation. Lying in the land triangle of Germany, Austria and Czechia, you find in the vicinity of one hour European cultural monuments, cities and places of pilgrimage whose visit is more than worthwhile.

• Passau
  Inn and Ilz flow here into the Danube. A special spectacle, especially because all three rivers show different colourings. On an idyllic peninsula there lies the historical old town of Passau which sprays an almost southern atmosphere thanks to Italian master builders. A lot of patrician's houses stamp the townscape. On a small hill you can see the "Stephansdom" above the city, to both sides of the baroque cathedral with paintings of J.M.Rottmayr and the biggest cathedral organ of the world the lanes partially drop in precipitous stairs. A walk in the sunny Innpromenade as well as a visit of the mighty Veste is also worthwhile the "Oberhaus" which accommodates, among the rest, the Passauer city museum.
• Schärding
  For this on the Austrian side of the Inns situated city the river has central meaning. Thus favoured of the Inn the rise Schärdings to a significant commercial city of the Middle Ages. Also even today is noteworthy the navigation as a tourist attraction.
• Salzburg
  Salzburg stands on ancient settlement ground. The prehistoric findings which go back till the Neolithic Age prove this. The salt production on Dürrnberg with Hallein led to a thick settlement. At the moment the Roman received Salzburg under emperor Claudius (41-54 A.D.) the Municipalverfassung. Salzburg has a proud past in this imperial-immediate principality archbishops were always the worldly and ecclesiastical rulers.
• Marktl am Inn
  Marktl is a market municipality in the administrative district Altötting with 2700 inhabitants and a surface of 2,800 ha. Agriculturally delightfully conveniently between Inn and Alz the place has two nature reserves with unusual fauna and flora. With the Inntalradweg you have many possibilities to do bicycle wanderings in the closer and other surroundings, and to stroll on the traces of pope Benedikts.
• Altötting
  Altötting is called " Heart of Bavaria " . Rightly, because of his well over millennial history in the middle of hearts of the old Bavarian family dukedom, but also because of his meaning as a centre of the faith and the national devoutness. Altötting could celebrate 500 years of Marien's pilgrimage in 1989. However, the history Altöttings goes back much further.