Rottau: Chiemsee
Few places in Bavaria have a history as closely tied to peat cutting as Rottau. The settlement stands in the Chiemgau, between the broad basin of Chiemsee and the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, where peat extraction once shaped work and terrain. The Kendlmühlfilzen, a raised-bog landscape near Rottau, preserves this connection; the Bavarian Moor and Peat Museum at the Klaushäusl documents the area’s peat industry. Chiemsee, Bavaria’s largest lake, includes Herreninsel and Fraueninsel. On Herreninsel, King Ludwig II began building Herrenchiemsee Palace in 1878 as a homage to Versailles. Rottau retains the rural scale of Chiemgau, with fields and farmsteads extending across the lake’s southern hinterland.
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Few settlements in Bavaria have a history as closely tied to peat extraction in the Kendlmühlfilzen bog as Rottau. Part of the municipality of Grassau, it lies in Chiemgau between Lake Chiemsee and the northern foothills of the Chiemgau Alps. The extensive moorland around the village was worked for peat over generations, a legacy documented at the Bavarian Moor and Peat Museum in the historic Klaushäusl. Today, the former extraction landscape is associated with protected wetland habitat and routes for walking and cycling across the flat bog margins, while the alpine edge rises close by. Continue through nearby webcams to explore different parts of Rottau and Chiemgau.
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