Moosham: Hiking Trail, Coin History and Nature

Three specific themes are at the heart of planning your stay in Moosham: the 1a hiking trail, the history of the coin hoard and the landscape shaped by the Ice Age. If you are looking for accommodation, these highlights can help you plan your days around hiking, cultural history or your interest in nature.

Hiking trail and Ice Age landscape

The 1a Moosham hiking trail is 8.80 km long and is listed in the current municipal hiking trail directory. The distance provides a concrete reference point for planning your day: you can make the route a focus of your plans and add other activities according to your pace and interests. When planning your day, also allow time for breaks so the tour fits your schedule.

The ridge from Baumgarten via Steinbichl to Moosham is part of the Riß glaciation landscape. Remnants of high terraces have been preserved below the hamlet of Moosham, down to Lehenbauer; they consist of gravel deposits formed by meltwater runoff during the Riß glaciation. The two landforms offer different insights: the ridge describes the landscape across several named places, while the terrace remnants are a specific landform below the hamlet. The geological context can therefore be understood both through its association with the glaciation and through the landforms that have been preserved.

Pond, moor and beech forest

A pond north of Moosham covers around 580 m² and is important for local amphibian populations. Field surveys in 2001 recorded a total of 72 plant taxa in a remnant area of the Grafing Moor north of Moosham. This figure refers to botanical units, not individual plants. West of Moosham, a small beech forest with orchid species and only slight thermal influence is located on a terrace slope.

The natural features also differ in their locations: the pond and moor remnant lie north of Moosham, while the beech forest is to the west. They also represent different areas of interest: their importance for amphibians, the recorded plant taxa and the orchid species. This gives a more precise picture of the natural surroundings than a general description of the landscape.

The Moosham coin hoard

The Moosham coin hoard comprised 1,200 coins from the closing years of the Babenberg era. It had been buried around 1250 and was found in Moosham, now Münzfeld, in 1963. The two dates mark different points in time: around 1250 refers to when the hoard was buried, and 1963 to when it was found. This allows you to distinguish the hoard’s historical context from the later date of its discovery.

Items from the coin hoard can be viewed at the Kammerhof Museum in Gmunden. This clearly distinguishes Moosham, where the hoard was found, from the place where the items can be viewed: one anchors the hoard’s history locally, while the other offers access to the coins.

Discover more destinations: Bad Ischl, Bad Goisern on Lake Hallstatt, Sankt Wolfgang im Salzkammergut, Gosau, Neukirchen, Gmunden, Altmünster am Traunsee, Kogl

Return to the overview of the region: Gmunden District.