Sterngartl
As Sterngartl refers to an area in Upper Austria , which in Leonfeldner highlands in the upper Mühlviertel of the eponymous south star stone to about Hellmonsödt enough. The main town is Bad Leonfelden . The region comprises the northern part of the Urfahr-Umgebung district and small parts of the Rohrbach district .
Characteristic for this region is the gently undulating, mostly over 700 m above sea level. high-altitude landscape and the distinctive stone-castle-style farms . The Sterngartl essentially includes the municipalities of Bad Leonfelden , Vorderweißbach , Schenkenfelden , Reichenthal , Zwettl an der Rodl , Oberneukirchen , Hellmonsödt and Reichenau im Mühlkreis .
geography
The Sterngartl region spreads out as a gently rolling granite landscape surrounded by forests north of Kirchschlag via Zwettl and Bad Leonfelden to the Sternwald . The main town and largest town is the city of Bad Leonfelden, which is also the center of this region. The other places in the region are mostly much smaller and mostly include agricultural areas and forests. The Große Rodl , which rises at the Sternstein, is the main body of water and runs through the Sterngartl.
In addition to the market towns of Zwettl an der Rodl and Oberneukirchen with the Waxenberg castle ruins , the parish church of Reichenthal with the well -known pulpit of the seven deadly sins , the pilgrimage church of Maria Schutz am Bründl and the mighty neo-Gothic parish church of Bad Leonfelden are sacred buildings worth mentioning. Numerous stone-built farms and elongated villages in the form of Waldhufendörfern such. B. in Langzwettl or Dietrichschlag characterize the rural landscape.