Wasserburg am Inn Private Walking Tour

This city has earned the righteous nickname of "pearl on the Inn", for it’s picture-perfect scenery, with its colourful gothic houses, medieval inner courtyards, and it’s almost mediterranean flair.

Highlights

It’s geostrategic position on the river Inn

Foundation before Munich

Former port of Munich

Importance in the Salt Trade Route

Wars for control by the bavarian nobility

Its relevance as a trade center between the Balkans, Austria, Italy and Germany in the Danube-Inn trade route

The impregnable castle of the Hallgrafen and later of the Wittlesbacher family

The many floods that have plagued the city

Once a powerhouse of trade in the Danube-Inn routes and in the Salt Route of Bavaria, it was fought over by the Bavarian nobility to obtain its control, since the only bridge over the Inn river passed on Wasserburg. The name itself means “Castle on the water”, and it was once the main harbour of Munich, only 50 km away. Built in a peninsula with winding curves along the Inn, its beauty is as uncanny today as ever.

Points of Interest

• Frauenkirche

• Pfarrkirche St. Jakob

• St. Michael

• Heiliggeist-Spital mit Kirche

• Brucktor

• Kernhaus

• The Innbrücke Bridge

• Gothic City Hall

• Hungerturm tower

• Roter Turm tower

• Altes und

• Neues Mauthaus

• View of Palace

• Patrizierhaus and its Rococo façade