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Hiking tour No. 1
Geiersthal -
Felburg - Knoglberg - Altnußberg - Geiersthal
Length: approx. 6 km
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Starting point for this hiking tour is the chapel ‘Geiersthal’, the mother church of one of the primeval parishes in the Bavarian Forest. This church is worth seeing especially because of its frescoes in the late Gothic choir and its iron sheathed sacristy door (from the 14th century.).
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From the place ‘Felburg’ there leads a trail, which is also a way of cross (the Stations of the Cross are pictured on verre églomisé pictures at stone pillars) to the romantic forest chapel ‘Steinzen’, whose construction has its origin in a vow from the 18th century: According to legend a man fell sick with a chronic ‘foot malady’, which couldn’t be cured by any remedies. He beheld in a dream that he was to place a picture of the Virgin Mary as a vow on the hill of his homeland. After having fulfilled his vow he was released from his malady. As soon as this became known other suffers also pilgrimed to this picture in the forest, whereupon a chapel was soon built around the picture.
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The hiking path leads on to the ‘Knoglberg’ (708 m), where you can enjoy the view to the Valley of Teisnach and then you get to the place ‘Altnußberg. In ‘Altnußberg’ you have the opportunity to deflect from the hiking path and to visit the castle ruin ‘Altnußberg. This ruin was the largest and oldest castle grounds of the Bavarian Forest and after an almost 500-year sleep it was excavated from 1983 to 1999 and archeologically recorded. The ancestral seat of the noble family ‘Nußberger’ was built in the 12th century, probably between 1174 and 1194, and was devastated in the year 1469 during the ‘Böckler riot’. The castle tower, which was reconstructed as a viewing tower, offers a splendid panoramic view to the mountains of the middle Bavarian Forest. The castle can be visited at any time, guided tours also through the attached castle museum are offered from May to October on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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Back again on the hiking path it will lead you through the forest past an old typical regional house to ‘Auhof’ and from there back to the starting point.
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