Buchkirchen: Fruit-Growing Culture and Chapel Tour

Buchkirchen combines a hilly, farming-shaped cultural landscape with a distinctive fruit-growing culture. Fine fruit orchards shape the scenery; at the same time, the municipality is one of Upper Austria’s largest fruit-growing communities. Numerous small woods and streamside groves add to this rural setting. For planning your trip, this creates a clear framework: the landscape, fruit growing and individual cultural and historic sites form different facets of the same destination. If you are looking for a place to stay with a recognisable local character and impressions of a rural cultural landscape, Buchkirchen offers several specific points of interest.

Cycling and hiking with different focuses

A network of cycling and hiking trails runs through Buchkirchen away from busy roads. This puts two ways of exploring the area in the foreground: on foot along hiking trails or by bike. The Chapel Tour gives cycling a specific cultural focus. It invites you to explore Buchkirchen’s cultural landscape, with its many chapels and wayside shrines, by bike. When comparing the options, the way you want to explore is key: the network includes cycling and hiking trails, while the Chapel Tour explicitly invites you to take a bike ride and focuses on chapels and wayside shrines. The “European Geo-Trail” is also described as a highlight in Buchkirchen.

Views from the Alpine panorama to the orchards

From the Schartner Höhenrücken, the view stretches south across the Alpine panorama as far as the Dachstein and northwards into the Mühlviertel. The same ridge also offers views of Mistelbach and its apple orchards. This brings expansive vistas and a specific fruit-growing motif together. The lookout tower offers a different view: over the Wels Basin and the Alpine foothills. These details distinguish the landscape impressions by viewpoint: the Schartner Höhenrücken offers views of the Alpine panorama, the Mühlviertel and Mistelbach, while the lookout tower looks out over the Wels Basin and the Alpine foothills.

The Chapel Tour and the statue of St. John of Nepomuk

Along the Chapel Tour, the route follows Haidingerstraße and turns onto Sagerbruckweg by the monument to St. John of Nepomuk. The directions thus identify specific roads and a prominent landmark. The statue of St. John of Nepomuk was erected on Haidingerstraße in 1980. This date adds historical context to the religious monument, while the many chapels and wayside shrines form the cultural focus of the tour.

The rectory as a Baroque four-wing complex

The rectory of Buchkirchen near Wels is a four-wing complex arranged around a square courtyard. The complex largely dates back to a new Baroque building constructed in 1651. The courtyard is at its centre, enclosed by the four building wings. Bay windows and small corner towers shape the stately appearance of a small country house. The architectural impression can be seen in specific features: the enclosed layout with its courtyard and the details of the exterior design. Those interested in architectural history will find another cultural and historic highlight of Buchkirchen here, in addition to the Chapel Tour.

Farmhouse specialities and places to buy them

Farmhouse specialities from Buchkirchen are available at farms, at various markets, in self-service shops and at Spar-Markt Bauer in Buchkirchen. This adds a culinary dimension to the town’s fruit-growing culture and farming character. Individual outlets may change, so check before your visit which of the options listed are currently available to you.

More destinations

Discover more destinations: Steinerkirchen an der Traun, Steinhaus bei Wels, Aichkirchen, Sattledt, Almegg, Wels, Schleißheim, Offenhausen.

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