Follow in the footsteps of the salt merchants on your bike, who founded the region's first wealth. The Salt Trade Route follows the old salt trade route and can be driven from north to south or vice versa.
Follow in the footsteps of the salt merchants on your bike, who founded the region's first wealth. The Salt Trade Route follows the old salt trade route and can be driven from north to south or vice versa.
Tour description:
Stammham - Tittmoning - Laufen - Bad Reichenhall - Hallein or vice versa
The salt trade route opens up villages, fields and forests in the charming foothills of the Alps and touches on historic Salzach towns such as Tittmoning , which are just waiting to be discovered by you. Roads with little traffic are usually used in slightly hilly terrain with only slight inclines on paved bike paths , roads or paved dirt roads .
From the village of Stammham, in the Inn-Salzach holiday region, you set course for Burghausen with the world's longest castle complex and then cross the eastern part of the Chiemsee-Chiemgau cycle tour region: the charming foothills of the Alps of the Rupertiwinkel with its pretty villages and beautiful meadows and forests.
The Salzach town of Tittmoning welcomes you with the historic market square and the mighty castle . Parallel to the Salzach you drive directly to the village of Fridolfing . The parish church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Fridolfing can be seen from afar and is considered the largest village church in Germany and is also called the "Bavarian Cathedral". The next town is Kirchanschöring with the "heavenly economy", the Saliterwirt and the "Goldweg", a tour of 20 buildings that were awarded by a competition jury.
From here you can take a detour to the warmest lake in Upper Bavaria . The Waginger See is a popular holiday magnet with its bathing beaches and numerous restaurants.
You are now leaving the Chiemsee-Chiemgau cycle travel region and reaching the Salzach town of Laufen with its historic Salzach Bridge . Passing Abtsdorfer See you continue on the trail of the "white gold" via Bad Reichenhall to a real magnet for visitors, the Berchtesgaden salt mine .
From there the tour leads past the famous Mozart city of Salzburg and on to Hallein in the Salzburger Land with the “Salzwelten” visitor mine.
