Hiking Highlight
Recommended by 44 out of 45 hikers
Location: Ortenburg, Landkreis Passau, Lower Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany
Sanctuary of Sammarei
Bavarian Assisi or German Loreto is often called collecting. With its monumental carved altar "unique in the ecclesiastical furnishing art of southern Germany" (Dehio). Built over a completely preserved wooden chapel from the Middle Ages, “the oldest wooden church in Germany, the oldest block church in Central Europe” (Prof. Ahrens). The largest place of pilgrimage in the diocese after Altötting.
May 22, 2020
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