Klaffer Am Hochficht: Nature, Winter and Culture

For a trip to Klaffer Am Hochficht, you can choose from different focuses: nature, winter activities and regional culture. The natural bathing lake, the organic medicinal herb garden, the legend trail and the museums offer concrete starting points for planning. If you are looking for a hotel, you can first consider whether the season, plants, legends or the history of the Bohemian Forest are especially important to your stay.

Nature through the seasons

The lake is a natural bathing lake with a water surface of around 40,000 m². Every winter, an ice-skating area is prepared there. The lake therefore has two distinctly different seasonal uses: as a natural bathing lake and as a prepared ice-skating area.

The Klaffer organic medicinal herb garden contains around 1,500 different medicinal plants and covers around 7,800 m². The number of plants and the area offer different points of reference: the variety of the collection and the garden’s size. A guided tour with an expert takes place on the first Saturday of every month at 14:00; you must register three days in advance. As the tour schedule can change seasonally, check the current date before your visit and register in good time. The garden is a destination in its own right for anyone interested in medicinal plants or wishing to include an expert-led tour in their plans.

Winter activities and the legend trail

At Hochficht, you can go cross-country skiing, winter hiking and snowshoeing. Together with the prepared ice-skating area at the lake, this makes a useful distinction for planning winter activities: three specific activities are available at Hochficht, while the lake has a prepared ice surface. Parking is free for Hochficht cable car guests.

The legend trail tells stories from the Bohemian Forest on 19 information boards. It starts and ends at the village square in Klaffer, in front of the municipal office. Both the theme and the route are clearly defined: the boards provide the stories, while the same village square marks the starting and ending point. If you would rather follow a single cultural theme than compare different collections, the legend trail is a clearly defined option for your plans.

Museums and regional history

There are several clearly distinct themes related to regional history. The building has housed the 1st Mühlviertel Wheelwright Museum since 23 August 1996. The Water Museum uses information boards to introduce all the water cooperatives in the municipality of Klaffer am Hochficht; it also displays historical tools used to draw drinking water. Its exhibits thus focus on the municipality’s water cooperatives and tools for drawing drinking water.

The collection at the Böhmerwäldler local history room includes objects from the everyday life of a Bohemian Forest family. In contrast to the Water Museum, whose information boards introduce the municipality’s water cooperatives, the local history room focuses on family life. A homecoming gathering is held there every two years. If you would like to plan your trip around it, check the current schedule locally. The cultural themes also differ in scale: the Water Museum presents topics related to the municipality, while the local history room shows the everyday life of a family.

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