The best walks and hikes in Naturpark Bayerischer Wald

Buchenau Castle The estate was built starting in 1840 for the glass manufacturer and Imperial Knight Benedikt von Poschinger. After his death in 1856, he was succeeded by his son Ferdinand Friedrich Wilhelm, who expanded the estate between 1868 and 1870 in the Historicist style. After the glassworks went bankrupt in 1932, the castle remained unused for nine years. In 1942, it was purchased by the couple Erna Horn and Dr. Julius Arndt, who established an experimental kitchen and a cultural center there. After Erna Horn's death in 1982, the estate was inherited by two of her employees, the cook and the secretary. In 2006, the "Förderkreis Schloß Buchenau" (Friends of Buchenau Castle) acquired the castle. Following a renovation, it is now used as a cultural center, which includes the "Garden Market with Wild Garlic Festival" at the end of May, the "Gourmet Market" on October 3rd, and an annual Advent market. The castle is a two-story, neo-Gothic style building with a gable roof, stepped gables, corner oriels, and a roof turret. To the west, there is a columned portico. The ensemble includes the former administrator's house, a two-story gable-roofed building with gable balconies, built in a country house style. An associated washhouse with an ice cellar was built around 1900; it is a single-story, two-wing building with a hipped roof and corner rustication. The palm house dates from around 1870 and is a building with a half-hipped roof and a glazed south side. The greenhouse was also built around 1870, a long, flat gable-roofed building with a glass roof. Furthermore, it includes a bowling alley, a long, flat gable-roofed building constructed with timber framing over quarry stone walls, as well as a bee house. On the property, there is a grotto built of quarry stone. The courtyard wall is also made of quarry stone. The estate is embedded in a park in the style of an English landscape garden, which was laid out around 1870. Source: Excerpts from www.wikipedia.de

The resting place on the rock formation is beautiful, only the view has become quite overgrown in the meantime.

Seating on a rock, where due to the vegetation in the summer months, there is a view towards Bodenmais only in one spot.

The so-called "Swedish Crosses" are memorial crosses commemorating those killed as victims of the often marauding (plundering) troops that roamed the country during those warlike times (the first half of the 17th century). However, in the strictest sense of the word, they are not "atonement crosses," because such crosses were to be erected by the perpetrators themselves as part of their atonement (penance) for their crimes, whereas memorial crosses were erected by people close to the victim (often family members, possibly friends, or neighbors).

Nice quiet rest area with a bench and some views.

A must-visit is this beautiful waterfall, also because of the great bridge.

Fine cliff with lots of space and a bench, the view of the mountains is still beautiful, but soon overgrown.

The Adalbert-Stifert-Steig presents itself as a narrow mountain path on rooty and rocky ground. Hardly any strenuous ascents or descents need to be mastered.