View of Schweiklberg Abbey

After leaving the forest, there is a great view to the monastery Schweiklberg in good weather. If you want you can also go to the monastery, where a cafe invites you to linger. Because of the opening times you should inform yourself in advance but a little more detail. schweiklberg.de/index.php/de/home/werkstaetten-und-betriebe/cafeteria

Large parking lot at the monastery, good starting point with restaurant

The town of Vilshofen an der Donau lies on the edge of the southern Bavarian Forest, where Vils and Wolfach flow into the Danube. The old town is built close to the water, on a pointed headland between the Danube and Vils and appears to the visitor from the opposite bank like an island floating on the river. The impressive double-towered monastery building of the Benedictine Schweiklberg Abbey towers above it.