guttenburg castle, BY

what a nice day trip to rural bavaria today 😄. we have visited the guttenburg castle built 1285 by duke heinrich VIII (Herzog Heinrich XIII.) and the surrounding lands close to inn river at kraiburg am inn.

guttenburg castle 1721 - schloss guttenburg (guettenburg).

source: wikipedia, copperplate (kupferstich) by michael wening (1721).

 

first we have walked at the inn river tread (hochufer) at georgenhöhe between the inn river and the guttenburg creek. then we have visited the nearby malseneck castle which is a facility for disabled people today (behindertenwohnheim schloss malseneck). after that the privat and not open to public guttenburg castle with its antonov AN-2 airplane. finally we enjoyed the rural bavaria at kraiburg am inn and ampfing.

moo!

(few months earlier) in summer time 🌳

inn riverbank

guttenburg castle 2021

antonov AN-2

malseneck castle

pilgrimage church - wallfahrtskirche st. salvator in kraiburg am inn (district ensdorf).

picture by robert bauer @google maps

rural bavaria (bayern) at ampfing, BY

few more pictures here.

kloster birkenstein (monastery)

the birkenstein monastery from 1673 + its pilgrimage church (wallfahrtskirche) in fischbachau was a really great positive surprise after we spent a wonderful day on a hiking tour to the breitenstein mountain (1622 m) in the bavarian alps.

kloster + wallfahrtskapelle birkenstein, 1710 - 2010

1673 + 1702

it was so strange, quiet, nice and interesting here. unfortunately, we didn't find the place where we could fill our bottles with the healing spring water (especially good for the eyes), mostly because our daughters were really tired and wanted to go home fast ... well, a reason more to come back here soon :-)

enjoy few pictures from this mystical place:

there are (at least) 3 chapels on two floors there

ground floor

first floor

so, let's leave the monastery for now and walk back to our parking place in fischbachau.

house st. hildegard

cafe seidl

restaurant oberwirt

more pictures here

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