Chiemsee Attractions
Boat services
Regular services (including services to islands) from Prien, Gstadt, Seebruck and Chieming.
With an area of 82sq.km/32sq.mi, the Chiemsee is the largest of the Bavarian lakes, measuring between 5km/3mi and 15km/9mi across and up to 73m/240ft in depth. It occupies the central part of a basin carved out by an Ice Age glacier, and once extended southward as far as Grassau, over an area which has since been silted up by deposits from the Tiroler Ache. In summer the lake is dotted with sailboats.
Regular services (including services to islands) from Prien, Gstadt, Seebruck and Chieming.
With an area of 82sq.km/32sq.mi, the Chiemsee is the largest of the Bavarian lakes, measuring between 5km/3mi and 15km/9mi across and up to 73m/240ft in depth. It occupies the central part of a basin carved out by an Ice Age glacier, and once extended southward as far as Grassau, over an area which has since been silted up by deposits from the Tiroler Ache. In summer the lake is dotted with sailboats.
Fraueninsel, Germany
The Fraueninsel (8 hectares/20 acres), an island in the Chiemsee, has a Benedictine nunnery, set amid lime-trees, founded by Duke Tassilo III in the eighth century (church with Late Romanesque wall paintings) and a picturesque little fishing village.
Herreninsel - Schloss Herrenchiemsee
The Schloss Herrenchiemsee, on Chiemsee's Herreninsel island, built between 1878 and 1885 for King Ludwig II of Bavaria on the model of Versailles, has magnificent state apartments, including a 98m/322ft long Hall of Mirrors and the King Ludwig Museum.
Hours
April 1 to October 3
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | 9:00 | 9:00 | 9:00 | 9:00 | 9:00 | 9:00 | 9:00 |
| Close | 18:00 | 18:00 | 18:00 | 18:00 | 18:00 | 18:00 | 18:00 |
October 4 to October 31
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | 9:40 | 9:40 | 9:40 | 9:40 | 9:40 | 9:40 | 9:40 |
| Close | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 | 17:00 |
November 1 to March 31
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | 9:40 | 9:40 | 9:40 | 9:40 | 9:40 | 9:40 | 9:40 |
| Close | 16:00 | 16:00 | 16:00 | 16:00 | 16:00 | 16:00 | 16:00 |
Always closed on:
New Year's Day (January 1)
All Saints' Day - Christian (November 1)
New Year's Eve (December 31)
Christmas - Christian (December 25)
Christmas Eve - Christian (December 24)
All Saints' Day - Christian (November 1)
New Year's Eve (December 31)
Christmas - Christian (December 25)
Christmas Eve - Christian (December 24)
Guides
Guided tour available as optional extra.
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Bergen, Germany
Bergen, near Chiemgau, is at the foot of Hochfelln (1,670m/5,479ft; cabin cableway; fine panoramic views).
Chiemgau, Germany
The Chiemgau is the area of the Alpine Foreland lying to the south of the Chiemsee. With its green moraine hills set against the backdrop of the Chiemgauer Berge, it is a favorite holiday area.
Aschau
(Near )
Aschau, in the Prien valley, is a popular winter sports center as well as a summer resort. Above Hohenaschau is the picturesque castle of that name.
Traunstein
(Near )
Traunstein, beautifully situated on a hill above the Traun, offers visitors brine baths, mud baths and the Kneipp cure. It has a beautiful parish church of 1696. There are fine panoramic views from the Hochberg (775m/2,543ft) and the Teisenberg (1,333m/4,374ft).
Chieming
Chieming, on the Chiemsee, has a beautiful bathing beach. In the outlying district of Ising is a Horse Museum.
Grabenstatt, Germany
Grabenstätt, on the Chiemsee, is a settlement with Roman origins (small Roman Museum).
Kampenwand
In Kampenwand, near Aschau, is the lower station of the Kampenwand cableway (upper station at 1,460m/4,790ft; magnificent views).
Krautinsel
The little, uninhabited Krautinsel, an island in the Chiemsee, serves as the kitchen garden of the nunnery on Fraueninsel island.
Marquartstein, Germany
The lively holiday village of Marquartstein lies in the forest-fringed valley of the Tiroler Ache.
There is a rewarding climb of the Hochfelln.
There is a rewarding climb of the Hochfelln.
Marquartstein Tourist Office
Bahnhofstrasse 3
D-83259 Marquartstein
Germany
Bahnhofstrasse 3
D-83259 Marquartstein
Germany
Ruhpolding, Germany
The neat village of Ruhpolding lies in a basin in the valley of the Weisse Traun, on the Deutsche Alpenstrasse. It has a Late Baroque parish church and a Heimatmuseum.
Seebruck, Germany
Seebruck, at the northern tip of the Chiemsee (lake), has Roman origins (Museum Römerhaus Bedaium).
Seeon - Benedictine Monastery
Seeon, 5km/3mi north of Seebruck, has a former Benedictine monastery (12th C. church).
Seeon - Schanzenberg Motor Museum
The Schanzenberg Motor Museum in Seeon, 5km/3mi north of Seebruck, has on display veteran and vintage cars.
Stock-Prien
Prien, the most popular of the Chiemsee's lakeside resorts, has an interesting Heimatmuseum and a picture gallery (in the Old Town Hall). In Stock (reached by the old Chiemsee railroad, opened in 1887, as well as by road) is the harbor (boat services to the islands).
