Benediktweg

Section in the Chiemsee-Alpenland:

Chieming (10 km) - Seebruck (7 km) - Seeon (8 km) - Gstadt (17 km) - Amerang (17 km) - Wasserburg (20 km) - Gars (17 km) - Kloster Au (5 km) - Aschau (5 km) - Mühldorf (14 km) - Tüßling (2 km) - Altötting as an important pilgrimage site with Black Madonna (7 km) - Neuötting (2 km) - Marktl am Inn (16 km) - Hohenwart (8 km) - Burghausen with the longest castle in Europe (7 km) - Raitenhaslach (2 km) - Marienberg (1 km) - Tittmoning (19 km) - Waging am See (14 km) - Hufschlag (10 km) - Traunstein (2 km) - Chieming.

From Seeon and Gstadt, there is the possibility of a boat trip to the Herren and Fraueninsel islands.

Route description Chieming - Wasserburg:

• Chieming (Sights: Parish church "Mariä Himmelfahrt" with largely neo-Romanesque equipment from 1884 and three Roman votive stones, former Schloss Neuenchieming – a parsonage directly on the lake (from 1642-1965) with stair tower and garden complex): via Stöttham and past the Baroque pilgrimage chapel Ising (and boarding school Schloss Ising) one reaches Seebruck after 7 kilometers.
• Seebruck (Sights: branch church St. Thomas (1474-77) of the Frauenchiemsee monastery, in the cemetery area remains of the castle wall, Roman museum): On the themed cycle path "On the trail of famous composers" (e.g., Michael Haydn as well) it goes through old Celtic-Roman cultural landscape and Truchtlaching on the Alz to Seeon. (Shortcut without Seeon: Chiemsee shore path to Gstadt (9 km)).
• Seeon (Sights: Benedictine monastery complex with St. Lambert monastery church (Romanesque origin, Gothic vault, partially Baroque after fire 1634-53), former convent buildings, St. Walburg side church (circa 1470) with cemetery, parsonage, former manorial farm and tithe barn): cycling towards Chiemsee, one reaches the village Pavolding, where some large-scale sculptures in the open air still recall the artist Prof. Heinrich Kirchner, who lived here and died in 1984. Slight ups and downs over Roitham, Stetten, Gollenshausen, Ed, and Breitbrunn lead to Gstadt on the Chiemsee after 17 kilometers.
• Gstadt (Sights: branch church St. Peter and Paul (15th century, baroque around 1720), Fraueninsel, Herreninsel. Bicycle depot at the landing stage): from here one cycles a short way back to Breitbrunn and then further on the bike route through the morainic landscape shaped by ice ages, the Eggstätt-Hemhofer lake plateau (Bavaria's oldest nature reserve) via Eggstätt (6 km), Höslwang (6 km) and another 5 kilometers to Amerang.
• Amerang (Sights: Amerang Castle, St. Rupertus parish church (originally Gothic, baroque in the 18th century), castle museum, Amerang farmhouse museum with historic buildings, Museum of German Automobile History): heading north on side roads, you reach Altbabensham (13 km) via Evenhausen, Hebertsham and Wimpasing. Here turn west; after the Penzinger lake you see the "Pearl of the Inn", Wasserburg. The last part is partly heavily trafficked until the Red Bridge, until you finally reach the richly frescoed Brucktor of the old town of Wasserburg.
• Wasserburg (Sights: St. Jakob parish church (15th century) with magnificent pulpit (Zürn brothers 1638), Church of Our Lady (14th century) with Gothic miraculous image of the type of the "Beautiful (Salzburg) Madonnas", late Gothic town hall with council chamber and large town hall hall, impressive citizen houses from the 15th and 16th centuries, Inn loop and historic townscape of the town of Wasserburg, leisure facility "Badria", Wasserburg museum, road maker museum, a boat trip with the Inn shipping company, beer catacombs)