Kleinhöhenrain: Bee Trail, Tiefenbach Valley and Church

Kleinhöhenrain brings together the Bee Trail, the wooded Tiefenbach Valley, cultural history around St. Bartholomew’s Church, and the Trail of the Senses. If you’re looking for hotels for a trip to Kleinhöhenrain, these different highlights can help you decide where to go: give more weight to a themed trail, the landscape, or architecture and the history of the route.

Bee Trail and Tiefenbach Valley

The “Kleinhöhenrain Bee Trail” is suitable for children and wheelchair users. The trail features numerous information boards on different topics, a beehive, a wild bee hotel, and a bee pasture; several benches along the way provide places to rest.

The natural Tiefenbach and its feeder streams flow in numerous meanders through the wooded Tiefenbach Valley around Kleinhöhenrain. Meanders are the loops in a river’s course; together with the woods and feeder streams, they shape the character of the valley. Compared with the Bee Trail, the focus on nature shifts from designated bee stations to streams and wooded landscapes.

Church and route history

The branch church of St. Bartholomew in Kleinhöhenrain is a hall church with an onion dome, vault paintings, and an elaborately decorated pulpit. A hall church is a church building with one continuous main space. These terms point to different aspects: the onion dome describes the exterior form, while the paintings and pulpit describe the church’s interior decoration. From the church, there are views across the expansive Mangfall Valley and 80 mountain peaks. St. Bartholomew’s thus brings together architectural form, interior decoration, and views of the landscape.

The “Trail of the Senses” was laid out in 2009 along the Way of the Cross, which had already existed since 1870, from Maxhofen to Kleinhöhenrain. The dates mark two stages in the route’s history: the existing Way of the Cross in 1870, and the creation of the Trail of the Senses in 2009. The sequence is important for understanding the route: the older Way of the Cross was already there when the Trail of the Senses was laid out.

Feldkirchen-Westerham as a wider travel destination

The Mangfall Cycle Path is another regional route in the wider travel destination of Feldkirchen-Westerham. The 66 km cycle path runs southeast from Munich to Rosenheim and follows the Mangfall directly from Feldkirchen-Westerham. As of June 18, 2024, Feldkirchen-Westerham was a stop on the Munich–Holzkirchen–Rosenheim railway line.

The cultural history of the wider travel destination of Feldkirchen-Westerham includes the Church of the Pilgrimage of the Virgin Mary in Oberreit. It houses a late Gothic carved devotional image dating from around 1470. Altenburg is the ancestral castle of the Lords of Vagen. The Feldkirchen-Westerham Local History Collection digitizes, preserves, and presents the municipality’s cultural heritage in written, audio, and visual form, from past to present. Together, these sites and collections represent a historical connection, a work of art, and the preservation of cultural heritage across different periods and media.

Mangfalltal Golf Club is also part of the wider travel destination of Feldkirchen-Westerham. It is situated on a plateau above Feldkirchen-Westerham and offers unobstructed views of the Mangfall Mountains from almost every hole. This outlook differs from the view from St. Bartholomew’s Church across the Mangfall Valley and 80 mountain peaks: each offers its own perspective on the landscape.

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