Siegsdorf: Nature, the Stone Age and the Mammoth

Siegsdorf offers several ways to shape your stay: a walk along the Traun, the Stone Age Garden in the town center, and topics ranging from fossils to the Stone Age. When choosing your destination, you can weigh up whether you are most interested in nature, local history, or geological and prehistoric topics.

Experience the river and town center

The easy Höpfling Loop runs along the Traun in Siegsdorf. It is especially suitable for toddlers and strollers; at several points, you can get directly to the river. This makes the loop a good option if you are looking for a walk by the river. As route conditions can change, check them before setting out.

The accessible Stone Age Garden is located in the town center. Together with the Höpfling Loop, it offers a different way to experience the town: the garden visit is the focus here, while the loop follows the Traun. You can take these different highlights into account when deciding which parts of Siegsdorf you would like to explore during your stay.

Geology, fossils and the Siegsdorf Mammoth

The Siegsdorf Mammoth Museum presents 250 million years of geological history in southeastern Bavaria across four floors. Its topics include the diversity of fossils, Ice Age giants, and the world of the Stone Age. This broad geological time span brings together a range of topics rather than focusing on a single period.

The Siegsdorf Mammoth is a special highlight: it is considered the most complete and best-preserved mammoth skeleton in Europe. Together with the museum’s wide range of topics, this superlative also makes Siegsdorf interesting for travelers keen to explore the history of the Earth, fossils, and the Ice Age.

The wider travel destination of Traunstein

The wider travel destination of Traunstein offers further landscapes to explore. The Chiemsee and Lake Waging are in Traunstein district. The Chiemgau Alps have more than 170 alpine pastures and peaks reaching up to 2,000 meters.

Protected areas are also part of the district: the Seeoner Seen are listed as a nature reserve, and Lake Waging and Lake Tachinger as a landscape conservation area. The officially designated protected areas in the district help preserve biodiversity, safeguard rare habitats, and protect the natural and cultural landscape.

The town of Traunstein adds its salt-making history to the regional picture. Preserved saltworks houses and the saltworks chapel offer insight into this history; the saltworks chapel is the largest chapel in Germany. The historic walking tour of Traunstein passes the Kulturforum Klosterkirche and then continues to the saltworks chapel, the saltworks houses, and the Salinenpark, built in 2019. The documented walking tour can thus also be understood as a sequence of historic sites and a more recently established park.

Other cultural attractions in Traunstein have their own focus: the brewery museum near Jacklturm is part of Hofbräuhaus Traunstein. The local history museum houses a town and toy museum with exhibits on bourgeois culture, religious art, and the history of the saltworks. When planning your trip, you can therefore distinguish between Siegsdorf’s nature and Stone Age themes and the landscape and cultural attractions of the wider travel destination of Traunstein.

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Go to the wider travel overview: Traunstein.