Innviertler Hügellandrunde - Halbtag

"Cycling is the closest thing to bird flight."
(Louis J. Halle, US naturalist and author, 1910 - 1998)

In front of you the Innviertel - in you the spirit of adventure

Get on your bike and discover your Innviertel. Top developed bike paths, culture and culinary delights in perfect variety and shady guest gardens with a promising beer and dumpling menu are already waiting for you.

Precious countryside
From the small eatery offering simple and rustic fare to the noble restaurant, the Innviertel is gastronomically well positioned. And thanks to the density of breweries - nowhere else in Austria are there more in one place - the beverage supply is also secured and the electrolyte balance is in equilibrium. Beer harmonizes perfectly with what we like to serve here: a crispy roast or dumplings in all variations.

The Innviertel Genuss Tour starts in Geinberg. On it goes to Kirchdorf am Inn to the European reservation lower Inn: The nature reserve with its untouched floodplain forest at the border between Lower Bavaria and Austria is meeting place for 300 different kinds of bird and up to 250,000 birds living there in the midst of one of the most unaffected river landscapes of Europe - what a singing scenery.

TIP: Don't forget binoculars!

Via the Innradweg cycle path R3 you continue to Obernberg am Inn. The Obernberg marketplace, with its rococo facades, is one of the most beautiful in Austria. The falconry Adlerwarte Obernberg, which is located in the castle area, offers impressive bird of prey demonstrations. Time for a break: a cool beer in the shady guest garden or for those with a sweet tooth a sweet Reidinger slice in memory of the "Es wird scho glei dumpa" songwriter and longtime pastor of Obernberg am Inn Anton Reidinger.

Freshly fortified, you continue on to Reichersberg. Visit the Augustinian canons' monastery Reichersberg with its vinotheque, garden and monastery store or take part in a guided tour of the monastery.

You continue on the Antiesenradweg cycle path (R23) into the valley of the Antiesen. On low-traffic side roads the Antiesenradweg leads via Münsteuer, Ort im Innkreis further to St. Martin im Innkreis. The cycle path leads past the Calvary Way of the Cross, the castle of the Arco-Zinneberg family and many typical Innviertel buildings.

You leave Utzenaich behind you and a bit off the Antiesen you come to Aurolzmünster, a village that was already elevated to the status of a market town in 1406. The origins of the market town go back to the year 800 after christ, when monks from the Bavarian monastery of Niederaltaich settled in the fertile area of the Antiesen Valley. Particularly worth seeing is the magnificent baroque castle Aurolzmünster in the center of the village, built between 1691 and 1711.

The Antiesenradweg cycle path then leads for about seven kilometers along the Antiesen brook to the district and trade fair town of Ried im Innkreis (half of the day's tour has been completed). The famous Schwanthaler family of sculptors lived and worked here for seven generations. Numerous guest gardens stores and the shopping center "WEBERZEILE" invite you to stroll.

TIP: Museum Innviertler Folklore house with works of all generations and style epochs.

Now the route continues along the connecting cycle path R104 to the Römerradweg cycle path. From the town center of Ried im Innkreis, the bike path leads in the direction of Neuhofen im Innkreis. Continue through the small Innviertel community on the little-used side road via Hauping, Bergetsedt to Magetsham. Here the R104 joins the Römerradweg R6.

On the last third of the route, however, there is still much to discover on the subject of "Romans". At the rest stops information boards inform about the life, the deities as well as the history of the Romans in the Innviertel. Shrubbery trails, a sewing machine museum or the church in Kirchheim im Innkreis are further stops for an informative break, and the innkeepers in Kirchheim im Innkreis have long ceased to be culinary insiders' tips.

TIP: Kirchheim airfield - pleasure flying.

On the last kilometers you have to pedal again, because from Polling im Innkreis you earn your top view with a little "uphill" feat of strength. At the Danner chapel, however, you will certainly be able to proudly look far into the Innviertel region, as far as Bavaria and the panoramic chain of the Alps. On the last 3 km downhill to the starting point "SPA Resort Therme Geinberg" you can let your impressions work again.  

Cycle paths: R3, R23, R104, R6