Town/village near Munich/Austria
 

We be heading to the Oktoberfest in Munich for a couple of days, thereafter moving on to Austria. Is there any town/ village near Munich or enroute to Vienna that we could visit? I love scenery! Any recommendation on any nice scenic place that we could visit?

Go along the Danube and you can visit Wilhering, the KZ Mathausen (sp?), Melk Abbey and the Wachau Valley.

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Mauthausen

Near Munich is the old town of Freising. The Munich airport is quite near the town.

This is where the oldest beer in Germany, maybe the world, was first brewed, Weinstephan, going back to around 1040.

Freising used to be the major city/town in the area, but the Duke of Freising charged too much to cross the Isar river.

The folks didn't like it and moved down the river to form the small town of Munchen (Munich).

Probably the best brewer in the U.S., Dan Gordon, is the only American to have graduated from the German Technical Institute's brewing school in the last 50 years or so, the University of Munich at Wienstephan. It's a 5 year course in German on the technical aspects of brewing beer. As Dan once told me, "I learned after the first year when to move the beer to the next process, but I only learned why after the third year".

We thoroughly enjoyed Steyr when we stopped there last year. Lovely town and not far off the route you will take from Munich to Vienna. The Wachau Valley is also not to be missed.

Photos from our visit:

http://travel.webshots.com/album/581...NTYOU?start=48

There are also photos from our Vienna stop as well.

Salzburg and the surrounding area (including Berchtesgaden) are a couple of hours south of Munich on the autobahn to Vienna...

I second Salzburg area.

Thanks for all the suggestion. How abt munderfing? Is that place worth a night stay or 2?

I'd also go with the Salzburg/Berchtesgaden area. For scenery alone I'd go with the Berchtesgaden area. It's less than 30 min. from Salzburg. We've stayed 4 times in this area. Love it.

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Paul

You might wish to visit Herrenchiemsee.

Jo, have never heard of Munderfing. Doesn't mean it's not worthwhile to visit, but it's never been mentioned here on Fodor's as far as I can remember.

<i>have never heard of Munderfing.</i>

The OP must have put a finger on the map and it fell on this town, just on the border between Germany and Austria. It's a little more than halfway between Munich and Linz.

We have been known to visit towns that might not be on many American's radar and have found them definitely worthwhile. Munderfing may be one such town for all I know.

We recently discovered Straubing, which is about halfway between Frankfurt and Vienna. Couldn't find anything about it on Fodor's but the website looked interesting. It was a wonderful little town with great architecture.

Sometimes it's worth taking a chance.

There are many nice towns along the route, but instead of picking just one place it may also be worthwhile to consider a scenic route and stay where you like it.
The Northern route from Munich to Linz to Vienna ia not excessively scenic besides the aforementioned Wachau valley.
Still on the German side, Burghausen is probably the most interesting place to stay, also to visit the huge castle.

If I had two days to play around with, I'd probably just take a different, more Southern route thru the Alps (if the weather was fine!).
straight South from Munich to Bad Tölz-Achensee-Zell am Ziller.
straight West on the Krimml falls scenic toll road - Zell am See- Radstadt- Schladming - Liezen - Gesäuse National Park- Leoben.
And finally via S6 motorway to Vienna.

Or a slightly more Northern route via Motorway A8 to Salzburg (including or excluding a short loop to Berchtesgaden, though I find that area too busy).
And then SE via Fuschl am See, Wolfgangsee/ St. Wolfgang, Bad Ischl, Hallstatt, Liezen -- and then as above.