The road from the (Achensee) Inn valley climbs, with many turns and magnificent views, to Maurach (960m/3,150ft, pop. 1,600), at the southern end of the lake, with its fine Baroque parish church and a herb garden.
From Maurach the Rofan cable railroad (2,246m/7,369ft long) runs up to the Erfurter Hütte (1,834m/4,541ft; inn), on the Mauritzköpfl. From here there are magnificent views and good walking and climbing - up the Hochiss (2,299m/7,543ft: 1.5 hours), the Rofanspitze (2,260m/7,415ft: 1.75 hours) and the Vorderes Sonnwendjoch (2,224m/7,297ft: 2.5-3 hours). In winter a trip down from the Rofanspitze into the Inn valley at Wiesing is most impressive.
750m/-0.5mi south of Maurach in the village of Eben stands the sumptuous Baroque pilgrimage church of St Notburga (15th-18th C.), in which the body of St Notburga is buried. Splendid stucco work surrounds the roof paintings which depict episodes from the saint's life; the clothing and scenes are very vividly portrayed. St Notburga, a pious maid from Rattenberg, is the patron saint of servant girls. In the 18th C. J. Singer built a new nave on to the choir of the old church. The high altar is richly decorated in gold and silver.
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