Camping in East Bavaria
East Bavaria's metropolises
Regensburg, founded by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, has retained its medieval heart to this day. The old town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Landshut, with its gabled houses, decorative facades, bay windows and arcades, is home to some of the most beautiful square-like streets in Germany. The three-river city of Passau, built in the Italian Baroque style, quickly became prosperous through its salt trade. The Bavarian way of life can of course also be experienced authentically in all other eastern Bavarian cities.Europe's largest spa and thermal bath landscape
Sporty, rural and always healthy: these are the five spas and thermal baths in the Bavarian Golf and Thermal Region: Bad Füssing, Bad Griesbach, Bad Birnbach, Bad Gögging and Bad Abbach. Here you can look back on a long history: Emperor Charles V was so impressed by the healing power of the sulphur water that he stayed there regularly and gave the Kaiser-Therme its name.
One of the largest contiguous forest areas in Europe
Between the Fichtel Mountains in the north and the Danube in the south there is a forest area around 230 kilometers long - the northern part of the mountain range is the Upper Palatinate Forest, the southern part the Bavarian Forest. Eastern Bavaria also includes the Bavarian Jura. Quiet rivers and streams, gleaming Jura rocks and a unique flora and fauna are characteristic of the region. Together with the Bohemian Forest, the Bavarian Forest forms one of the largest contiguous forest areas in Europe. Germany's only primeval forest, the Bavarian Forest National Park, is also located here. Together with the neighboring Czech Šumava National Park, the largest nature conservation project on the continent now lies in the heart of Europe. The "House of the Wilderness" visitor center offers breathtaking insights. Hikers can choose between four long-distance hiking trails in eastern Bavaria. The most famous is the 660-kilometer-long "Goldsteig" between Marktredwitz and Passau, which is listed as a certified quality trail among the "Top Trails of Germany".
Europe's largest e-bike region
The Bavarian Forest and the Bavarian Golf and Thermal Region rely on the environmentally friendly addition to the classic bicycle. They have a well-developed network of rental and battery charging stations, making them mobile even over longer distances and uphill gradients.
damsels and glassblowers
Let's explore: Some of the numerous castles in eastern Bavaria are now only ruins, but others, such as Falkenstein Castle, stand proudly above the valley with their keep intact. The region's extensive spruce forests supplied the raw materials wood and quartz sand for the first glassworks over 700 years ago. This gave rise to the "Bavarian Glass Route", which is now one of the most beautiful holiday routes in Germany. On the approximately 250-kilometer route from Neustadt an der Waldnaab to Passau, glassworks, galleries and museums show interesting facts about the old craft.
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18,000 pipes: XXL church organ
Passau is a real eye-catcher with the world's largest cathedral organ: five "partial organs" merge into a single instrument - with almost 18,000 pipes! It sounds from all corners, from the gallery, from the choir 80 meters away, even from a sound hole in the ceiling, the "Holy Spirit Hole". Dolby Surround at its finest!
record whisky from Eastern Bavaria
Gregor Schraml is the sixth generation to run the high-proof business at the foot of the Steinwald Nature Park in Erbendorf. Almost 700 whisky barrels are stored under the Bohemian vaults of the old provost's house. "It was my father's Upper Palatinate stubbornness that made him distill whisky and gin for decades, even though everyone called him a mad dog," says Gregor, whose fine wines repeatedly win gold medals at international competitions.
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