Route description for Bavarian Forest

Route: B27 via Tübingen - Echterdingen onto the A8.
Exit Nürtingen - Göppingen - Heidenheim -Donauwörth- Ingolstadt-Neustadt (bathing lake).
We left the A8 near Nürtingen, the traffic radio reported a 10 km traffic jam on the Eichelberg, we decided to drive overland. Due to extensive detour routes, we needed an hour and a half longer than the navigation system told us at the beginning of the trip. From Donauwörth it worked
very good, little traffic was on the road.

Arrived at the bathing lake we found enough free parking spaces. Overnight parking is permitted and free of charge. After the coffee break we had to go swimming right away. We were amazed at the bathing lake, even with a sandy beach. The water is very clean and the water temperature was pleasantly warm.

Air temperature was 26°C.

We stood at the edge of the squares and had a very quiet night.

We made the first sightseeing stop in Abensberg. The city is also the starting point of the German Hopfenstraße and ›Gateway to the Hallertau‹, the largest hop-growing region in the world. The many hop fields on the way there were striking. Architectural witnesses of the past are the castle from the 12th century, the Carmelite church "Our Lady", the parish church of St. Barbara with a rococo tower and the late medieval ducal case.

After the interesting town of Abensberg we drive to the parking lot of the Weltenburg Monastery. The parking lot is on the banks of the Danube and you still have to walk 600 m along the Danube to the monastery. There was a lot going on in the huge beer garden, the first guests were already having lunch. Weltenburg Monastery was founded at the beginning of the 7th century and is considered to be the original Bavarian monastery. In the monastery tavern you can drink beer from the oldest monastery brewery in the world (since 1050). The Asam brothers decorated the monastery church of St. George and Martin 1716-39 with magnificent
stucco work and theatrical light effects. We walked up the hill to the
Frauenkapelle, continue to the excavations of a former Roman castle.
The Weltenburg Danube breakthrough is supposed to be a unique natural experience that we wanted to see from above, so we walked the hiking trail in the direction of Kehlheim to a vantage point from which you should see the Danube breakthrough. (Walking time approx. 30 min.) Is not recommended, instead we walked along the Danube to the pier, where unfortunately you can see very little of the Danube breakthrough.

Large free parking lot on the Danube, the parking space for mobile homes is right next to it, which we didn't use. We only intended to look at the Liberation Hall.
We quickly run up to the Liberation Hall. The hall built by King Ludwig I of Bavaria (1842) for the victories over Napoleon is impressive. The dimensions of the 48 m high domed hall are revealed on a tour of the columned gallery on the upper floor.
We only looked at the Liberation Hall from the outside and were amazed at the mighty scale of the hall. The ticket for visiting the hall had to be bought in the tourist information, we didn't feel like going there anymore.

First it goes on to Germany's hall of fame - the Walhalla .

Before we could go up the few steps from the large parking lot, we had to wait out a heavy rain in the camper. After waiting for half an hour we stood in front of the truly impressive building. Admission to the hall cost 4 euros, but it's definitely worth it and the view over the Danube valley is free.

High above the Danube, not far from Regensburg, the Walhalla was built in ancient Greek style in 1830 by King Ludwig I of Bavaria. 130 busts of German personalities stand in the impressive building, the last entry for German-speaking people
Personalities were Heinrich Heine and Sophie Scholl.

Cham is located directly on the Regen river, which makes a bend there, and consequently it is simply called 'City on the Rainbow'. In the 8th century, monks founded the Chammünster monastery nearby in order to evangelize the eastern countries from here.

We made a short stop here.

The town hall is the eye-catcher of the Cham market square. Its bay window is adorned with a municipal and an Upper Palatinate coat of arms.

One of the three water-spouting figures in the market fountain depicts Count Nikolaus von Luckner, who was born in Cham. He made a career in the French army under Napoleon and must have been quite popular with his soldiers, because Claude Joseph dedicated Rouget de Lisle to him
the same marching song that later became the national anthem of France.

Neukirchen bei Heiligen Blut is a resort in beautiful nature at the foot of the Hohenbogen (1079 m). Where the Bavarian Forest merges into the Bohemian Forest. Our destination for the day is the parking lot at the valley station of the Hohe Bogen chairlift. A huge parking lot and completely empty we met him. The only drawback is the crooked position. The wheel chocks are not quite enough to stand up straight. Besides us, there was another WoMo in the parking lot. The evening was rainy, we didn't even feel like going to the ski center with the leisure activities (summer toboggan run ..) us
to look at

As we continued our journey, we had to make a detour to the pilgrimage church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary with the neighboring Franciscan monastery. The baroque pilgrimage church with the onion dome
the tower rises in a broad valley, to the east of the High Arch. In her double altar is the miraculous image with the forked head under a glass dome.
The church with a nave from 1610 and the tower from the late 17th century was designed in this way in 1720. It is connected by the altar to the Franciscan church behind it.
The Franciscans have been taking care of the pilgrimage in Cham since the 17th century and received permission to build a monastery and a monastery church in 1658.

The place name is somewhat unusual and has its origins in the pilgrimage history associated with a legend (peasant woman vs. Hussites). In 1420, a Hussite tried to destroy the head of the figure of Mary with a sword, whereupon "blood" flowed from this head.

First we drove past the parking lot and turned in Blaibach. In town we quickly bought some bread. Except for two cars, the approached parking lot was empty, had enough space
stand. Actually, we had planned and approached the parking lot to swim in the lake.
The weather was not inviting for swimming, it was raining. We tried an evening walk
along the lake, but soon turned back, the path was wet and dirty. An annoying booming noise from the hydroelectric power station and the noise from the road leading by made us change parking spaces.

Subject to a fee of 2.-€
Large parking lot when approaching it started raining again. Today we did nothing more, we spent the evening in the WoMo.

For our upcoming hike on the big Osser, we drove to the hiking car park on the Sahneberg. The driveway ran along a narrow, steep access road.

Upon arrival it was raining again. Air temperature 12°C
Parking is on the river "Big Rain" Bayerisch Eisenstein
During the Cold War, this was the hard border that ran right through the station.
A border wall was built through the station and tracks, on the German side the end of the world, on the Czech restricted area. Since 1991, trains have been rolling here again across the border to Prague. A historical railway museum is housed in the German part of the station.
With a short walk through the village we took a closer look at the historic train station.
We spent the night in the parking lot.

Our next stop on our mobile home tour through the Bavarian Forest for the next night is the Tröppelkeller campsite in Zwiesel. 49°00.790'N / 13°12.515'E

The small campsite on the outskirts is really nice and we were warmly welcomed. There are no marked out plots here. The campsite was occupied by four WoMos and bicycle tourists with their tents.

The car park is above the village of Waldhäuser. It is a paved level parking lot. When we arrived it had been lightly drizzling. The place is free.
Despite the bad weather, after the coffee break we set out on a hike up the Lusen.

During the night it rained through. The morning is gray. The parking lot was very quiet at night.

Today's destination is Riedelsbach. At the end of the town we found a parking space at the fire station. There was no parking ban.

Large three level car park, we preferred the lower car park. The parking spaces are slightly sloping, the WoMo had to compensate with wheel chocks. After our arrival we walked to the lake, in warmer weather it would be a beautiful, inviting bathing lake. After a closer look we saw that we were standing directly on the Austrian border. The dam is close to the border. Just before night fell it started raining again.

RV park offers generous space but has no facilities. That's why it's free. There were still free spaces on the free parking space at the Ilzbrücke, but it was well occupied. It rained heavily when we arrived, but soon the sun came out again. We got ready to look at the old town. It was about a 3km walk to the center of Passau.

The city backdrop of cathedral, town hall and castle. Around AD 80, the Romans set up a military camp at the confluence of the Danube, Inn and Ilz. In 739, the missionary Boniface founded a diocese here, whose sphere of influence soon extended to Hungary. The bishopric and city became wealthy through the salt trade on the Danube, and from the 13th century the bishops of Passau also exercised secular power as prince bishops.

We had still reached the WoMo without rain, two kilometers further on our journey it started to rain heavily. The drive took us onto the Autobahn that leads to Linz in Austria. A kilometer before the border there were signs for the Austrian border which briefly panicked us
brought. A relief came when we were just before the border crossing
were able to leave the Autobahn on the German side. We liked the approached pitch so we parked here.

It had rained almost non-stop on the drive here. The sun was shining when we arrived in Burghausen.

The sunny evening encouraged us to visit the castle again. From the Stellplatt it is 1.5 km via the old town to the castle. Not far from the parking space you have a wonderful view of the entire castle complex. Below the castle on the west side is the blue-green Wöhrsee and a landscape conservation and recreation area that we passed. A footpath with stairs leads to the Vordeburg. The mighty castle towers majestically high above the city, Salzach and Wöhrsee. The longest castle in the world, at 1043 m, actually consists of six fortifications one behind the other. This impregnable fortress was built from defiant walls, 26 towers, bridges, battlements and gates by 1490. The State Castle Museum in the Palas provides access to the ducal living quarters and the State Gallery in Burghausen with medieval paintings.
Unfortunately we were too late at the castle, access to the living quarters is closed at 6 p.m. We were still able to see the castle in its full length. Another footpath with 62 steps takes you to the old town of Burghausen, just as it was around 500 years ago
the Gothic old town below the mighty castle enthroned high above the town of Burghausen. The winding, almost Mediterranean-style streets are lined with slender gabled houses in the typical Inn-Salzach architectural style, but also with some Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo facades.
We could not visit the old town more closely, it started to rain so heavily that we had to shelter under an archway for a long time. When the rain stopped we went back to the WoMo as quickly as possible.

To visit the old town, conveniently located large car park, right on the Isar cycle path, it was relatively quiet at night. Where mobile homes are also allowed to park. Landshut was already the capital of Lower Bavaria when today's administrative district was still an incredibly rich duchy and stretched to Reichenhall and Kitzbühel.
First we made our way to
Trausnitz Castle. The castle rises directly above the old town. In the courtyard garden there is a vantage point over the city of Landshut. It is worth going up the Burgberg for the view alone. The medieval backdrop of the old town under the castle creates a very authentic atmosphere.
We then visited the St. Martin Church. The 133 m high tower of the late Gothic hall church of St. Martin is the tallest brick building in the world.
When you look at the long, slender columns with their 29 meters in height, you feel tiny in this church building, which otherwise seems rather unadorned at first.
We walk along the main street through the old town, we look at particularly striking house facades, the landscape house is particularly worth seeing.
On our way back to the parking lot we pass the remains of the old city wall and the city gate.

We stayed the night but left early in the morning.