Discover Egmating: Nature, Architectural History and Golf

Egmating brings together a range of themes to consider when planning a trip: sacred architectural history, moorland, golf and Italian-Mediterranean cuisine. If you are looking for a hotel in Egmating, you can first consider whether cultural history, nature or golf should take priority during your stay. The local highlights offer concrete points of reference to help you decide.

Church, castle and historic traces

The Catholic parish church of St John the Baptist and St Michael is a Romanesque chancel-tower church dating from around 1200. A two-storey sacristy adjoins the church, and the nave has a steeply pitched gable roof. The “Black Madonna of Egmating” is also notable for its position: it stands beneath a Baroque canopy below the gallery. Another dated monument is the “Plague Column”, erected in 1589 on Jägerweg in Egmating. Together, these details illustrate different aspects of the town’s architectural and sacred history.

The former Hofmark Castle in Egmating is an elongated, two-storey wing with gable roofs at different ridge heights; its core dates from the 17th century. Subsurface remains from the late Middle Ages and early modern period have been found in the area of the former castle and its predecessor buildings, which had Baroque gardens. The building’s form and the archaeological evidence thus point to different historical layers of the town.

Early settlement is also part of the town’s history. According to the municipal history, the route of a Roman consular road from Regensburg via Sempt to the Roman road station “Isinisca”—today’s Kleinhelferndorf—formed the basis for the later permanent settlement in the area around Egmating.

Moorland and traces of the Ice Age

The kettle bog landscape of Egmating Forest includes a variety of intact small bogs. Their ecological communities have survived in only a few places in Bavaria. In the eastern woodland around Egmating, the protected dead-ice kettle holes stand as evidence of the last Ice Age. Two distinct natural features are therefore highlighted: the ecological communities of the small bogs and the geological traces of the Ice Age.

Golf and Italian-Mediterranean cuisine

For travellers interested in golf, Schloss Egmating Golf Course is a specific point of reference. Its 9-hole Arabella Course features small lakes and numerous bunkers, which protect the undulating greens. These features give a more precise impression of the course design, rather than reducing golf to a general leisure activity.

The “Pizzeria Cristalina Schlossgarten” restaurant is located in the old castle rooms at Schloss Egmating Golf Course. It serves Italian-Mediterranean cuisine. This offers a concrete local reference point for choosing a place to eat based on a preferred cuisine, while the castle’s architectural history provides another way to discover the town.

Further perspectives in the wider destination of Ebersberg

The wider destination of Ebersberg offers additional, distinct attractions. Climb the 169 steps of the observation tower in Ebersberg Forest for views across the entire Alpine foothills, from the Berchtesgaden Alps to the Allgäu; on exceptionally clear days, distant peaks over 3,000 metres high can even be seen. The Forest and Environment Museum has stood right by Ebersberg Forest since 2004 and focuses on the history of forest use and forest ecology.

The Ebersberg Forest Environmental Education Centre is an institution recognised with the Bavarian “Umweltbildung.Bayern” quality seal for events on education for sustainable development. Events are held mainly outdoors and in the adjacent forest; visits by school classes and other groups are possible. These regional themes complement Egmating’s highlights without replacing its buildings, moorland or golf course.

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View the wider travel guide: Ebersberg.