Sankt Oswald-Riedlhütte

The Bienstand, in several histories and novels called the Bistand, is a low mountain ridge, 865 m high, in the Bavarian Forest between the villages of Sankt Oswald-Riedlhütte and Grafenau, immediately south of the clearly higher mountains of the Rachel and Lusen, which lie within the Bavarian Forest National Park. Its name probably comes from the Middle High German ("bien"="near" and "stand"="forest pasture", see also Kirchlinger Stand) and means "near the forest pasture".

Sagwasser is a river of Bavaria, Germany. It flows into the Kleine Ohe near Neuschönau.

The Riedlhütte narrow-gauge railway (German Feld- und Waldbahn Riedlhütte e.V.) is a not for profit light railway in Sankt Oswald-Riedlhütte in the Bayerischer Wald.

Grafenau (German pronunciation: [ɡʁaːfəˈnaʊ̯] ) is a town in the Freyung-Grafenau district, in Bavaria, Germany. 32 km north of Passau, the town is situated in the Bavarian Forest and is the base of the Bavarian Forest National Park Authority. Grafenau is a holiday destination with a variety of kinds of accommodation from self-catering apartments to a "holiday village".

Frauenberg is a mountain of 728m in the Bavarian Forest, close to Grafenau in Bavaria, Germany. Despite its inferior height, it is a recognizable part of the environment, as its conical form distinguishes it from the surrounding mountains of the Bavarian Forest. The Kleine Ohe (also Grafenauer Ohe) at this point crosses the Pfahl in the Elsenthaler Leite. Its more plain northern and eastern flank is foremost vegetated by spruces, whereas the more cliffy western and southern flanks going towards the Kleine Ohe are more grown over with deciduous forest, dominated by common beech, largeleaf linden and sycamore maple. There on 460m to 560m since 1978 a natural reserve of 19,5ha was established. Additionally there is one known viewing point on the southern side.To the pilgrimage chapel of Brudersbrunn, being located in the forest north of the peak, stations of the cross lead upwards from Grafenau.The chapel was constructed in 1842, on the spot where 1803 the former one was destroyed. The baroque Icon (1704) was stolen in 1969, together with some votive offerings and angel-formed candelabra.

Spiegelau is a municipality in the district of Freyung-Grafenau in Bavaria in Germany. It lies in the heart of the Bavarian Forest.

Neuschönau is a municipality in the district of Freyung-Grafenau, in the Lower Bavaria region of Bavaria, in Germany.

The Botanischer Garten der Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald is a botanical garden located adjacent to the Hans-Eisenmann-Haus visitor center in the Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald at Böhmstraße 35, Neuschönau, Bavaria, Germany. The garden contains over 700 plant species found in the Bavarian Forest, in habitats ranging from meadows, slopes, and rock fields, to springs, ponds, and bogs. It also includes geological displays.

Oberkreuzberg is a village in the municipality of Spiegelau in the Lower Bavarian district of Freyung-Grafenau in Germany. Until 1978 it was an independent municipality .

Hohenau is a municipality in the district of Freyung-Grafenau in Bavaria in Germany.

Waldhäuserriegel (1151 m) is a mountain of Bavaria, Germany. It is located northeast of the city of Grafenau and lies in the protected Core Zone of the Bavarian Forest National Park, only two kilometers from the border between Germany and the Czech Republic. The summit is above the tree line, but the slopes are almost completely covered in coniferous alpine forest. The nearest settlement is the district of Waldhäuser in the community of Neuschönau. The nearest mountains are Lusen (1373 m) to the northeast and Hohlstein to the east (1196 m).

The Kleine Ohe is a river of Bavaria, Germany. It is a headwater of the Ilz in Eberhardsreuth.