Discover Burghausen

Burghausen offers several clearly distinct highlights for planning your trip: the castle, the listed Old Town, museums, and routes and seasonal activities at Wöhrsee. If you are looking for a hotel in Burghausen, these themes can help you plan your days. Which one you focus on will depend on your interests and travel dates.

Castle and Old Town

Burghausen Castle is 1,051 metres long. At the State Castle Museum in the castle’s Palas, you can visit the medieval living quarters of the Lower Bavarian dukes. The Old Town is another attraction in its own right: it is considered a prime example of the Inn-Salzach architectural style. Distinctive features include projecting façades, roof valleys, fire lanes and continuous rows of buildings.

Colourful gabled houses with Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo façades line the Stadtplatz. In the Grüben, other aspects of town life take centre stage: the street is a pedestrian zone, a crafts district, and a cultural and cabaret meeting place. Small shops, event stages and cafés are all part of it, as is the Street of Fame, dedicated to international jazz legends. Individual shops and event programmes may change.

Museums and Jazz

The Town Museum presents the history of Burghausen. The House of Photography hosts changing special exhibitions on contemporary photography. Burghausen’s museums present their subjects in a modern way and offer activity programmes for children as well as interactive features; individual programmes may change. This makes local history, photography and interactive museum experiences distinct cultural themes to include in your trip planning.

The interactive GPS City Tour “Jazz in Burghausen” offers another perspective on the town’s history. It brings Burghausen’s jazz history to life with music and anecdotes about jazz stars. If you plan to take the tour, check in advance whether booking and technical access are available at your preferred time.

Wöhrsee and protected landscape

Burghausen has a 92-hectare landscape conservation area that includes the Herzogsbad and the long, narrow Wöhrsee. In summer, the lake offers opportunities for swimming and boating. When the water freezes, ice skating and Bavarian curling are also possible; there are also walking and jogging routes around the lake. Water and ice conditions vary, so it is a good idea to check the latest situation before planning these activities.

At the Herzogsbad, a spring rich in lime and minerals still flows today. It serves as a Kneipp arm bath for refreshment and invigoration. Together with the activities at Wöhrsee, the area therefore offers seasonal options on the water or ice, as well as routes around the lake.

Routes and practical information

Two easy routes with different distances and stated durations are available for walks. The walking route “Enchanting Natural Oases in the Heart of the City” is 3.1 kilometres long, takes 53 minutes, and starts and ends at the car park by Pulverturm. The easy Burghausen Panorama Trail starts at the castle entrance, is 3.4 kilometres long, and takes 1 hour and 45 minutes. The first route is therefore shorter both in distance and stated duration.

There is also a practical facility for cyclists: at the entrance to the Stadtsaal building, centrally located on Stadtplatz, eleven bike lockers protected from wind and weather are available for the free storage of valuables. A bicycle repair station is next to them. This means you can find the cycling services described at a specific location in the town centre.

The wider region: Altötting and Inn-Salzach

In the wider destination of Altötting, the district of Altötting lies along the Inn and Salzach rivers. The landscape is defined by a plain about ten kilometres wide, through which the Inn flows and which is bordered to the north and south by green rolling hills. The district of Altötting, together with the district of Mühldorf, forms part of the Inn-Salzach tourism region. Visitor information for the region includes, among other things, cycling and pilgrimage routes, museums and bathing lakes.

A popular variant of the Inn Cycle Path runs from Neuötting through Altötting and the extensive Öttinger Forst to the ducal town of Burghausen, then past the confluence of the Inn and Salzach rivers to Marktl. The section in the Inn-Salzach region is just over 75 kilometres long. As diversions may be in place, it is advisable to check the route before setting off.

Discover more destinations: Reischach, Emmerting, Marktl, Tüßling, Garching An Der Alz, Burgkirchen An Der Alz, Töging Am Inn, Winhöring.

Go to the wider travel overview: Altötting.