Discover Unterneukirchen

Unterneukirchen offers a distinctive cultural highlight in the form of two churches built in different periods. The wider destination of Altötting broadens the picture to include the district’s landscape and its nature and cultural attractions. If you are weighing up different interests for your holiday, you will find options here ranging from church history to cycling and wildlife watching.

Churches in Unterneukirchen

The restored subsidiary church of St. John and St. Aegidius dates from 1479. The parish church of Christ the King in Unterneukirchen was built in 1962. These dates mark two clearly distinct historical points of reference: one from the late Middle Ages and one from the 20th century. This gives travellers interested in the history of church architecture a specific local cultural focus.

The district between the Inn and Salzach rivers

The Altötting district lies between the Inn and Salzach rivers. Its landscape is defined by a plain about ten kilometres wide, through which the Inn flows, bordered to the north and south by lush green hills. The river, plain and hills thus showcase different facets of the district’s landscape. Together with the Mühldorf district, Altötting is part of the Inn-Salzach tourism region. The region’s visitor information includes, among other things, cycling and pilgrimage routes, museums and bathing lakes. This selection can help you decide whether exercise, culture or time by the water is most important to your travel plans.

Cultural attractions in the wider destination of Altötting

In Altötting, St. Anna Basilica is the city’s largest church; it can hold more than 8,000 people. The octagon of the Chapel of Grace in Altötting was probably built around the year 700 and is considered to be Germany’s oldest centrally planned building. The Golden Pony in the Altötting Treasury also tells a story with a clear date: it was made in the Paris court workshops in 1404. At the Brother Konrad Museum in Altötting, visitors can see the Old Gate and Brother Konrad’s death cell. These examples offer different cultural highlights: from the scale of a basilica and a probably very early building history to a work of art and named museum rooms. Burghausen Castle adds another striking building to this selection: it is 1,051 metres long and has six courtyards.

Nature, water and routes

The nature trail along the stream in Altöttinger Gries has ten different interactive stations. The circular route in Altöttinger Gries is approximately 1.4 kilometres long. Nature enthusiasts will find other options in the district, each with a different focus: the internationally significant wetland and nature reserve “Lower Inn between Haiming and Neuhaus” provides a habitat for migrating, overwintering and breeding marsh and water birds. More than 25 different bird species associated with water and wetlands breed there.

Another nature reserve is Dachlwand on the Inn, northwest of Marktl. It includes parts of the municipalities of Marktl, Erlbach and Perach and covers approximately 206 hectares. In 1986, it was changed from a landscape conservation area to a nature reserve. Peracher bathing lake is one of the bathing lakes in the Altötting district. Check the current facilities and conditions before visiting.

There is also a regional option for cyclists: a popular variant of the Inn Cycle Path runs from Neuötting through Altötting and the extensive Ötting Forest to the ducal town of Burghausen, then past the confluence of the Inn and Salzach rivers to Marktl. The route through the Inn-Salzach region is just over 75 kilometres long. As temporary diversions may be in place, it is advisable to check the route before setting out.

Choose accommodation to suit your travel interests

The two churches are specific cultural attractions in Unterneukirchen; the circular route in Altöttinger Gries, the nature reserves and the cultural attractions mentioned each have their own location within the wider destination of Altötting. If a particular destination is central to your stay, compare its location with that of your accommodation; for a cycling trip, the planned route also matters. This way, you can choose accommodation in Unterneukirchen to suit your actual travel interests without treating different destinations as a single outing.

Discover more destinations: Gasteig, Burgkirchen an der Alz, Haiming, Neuötting, Töging am Inn, Winhöring, Pleiskirchen, Garching an der Alz.

See the wider travel overview: Altötting.