Schardenberg (

Central Bavarian Central or Middle Bavarian form a subgroup of Bavarian dialects in large parts of Austria and the German state of Bavaria along the Danube river, on the northern side of the Eastern Alps. They are spoken in the ' Old Bavarian' regions of Upper ...

: ''Schadnberi'') is a municipality in the district of

Schärding Schärding ( , Bavarian name: Scharing) is a town in the northern Austrian state of Upper Austria, the capital of the district of the same name, and a major port on the Inn River. Historically, it was owned by the Wittelsbach family, which is r ...

in the

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

n state of

Upper Austria Upper Austria ( ; ; ) is one of the nine States of Austria, states of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, and Salzburg (state), Salzbur ...

. In September 1938, the Passau ''Kreisleiter'' and Schärding ''Kreisleiter'' cordially welcomed ''Gauleiter'' August Eigruber in Schardenberg. During a rally at the ''Hermannseder Inn'', Eigruber announced that the adjacent tower will be called ''Adolf-Hitler-Warte''.Anna Rosmus ''Hitlers Nibelungen'', Samples Grafenau 2015, pp. 183f

Geography

Schardenberg lies in the

Innviertel The Innviertel (literally German language, German for "Inn Quarter"; officially called the ; ) is a traditional Austrian region southeast of the Inn (river), Inn river. It forms the western part of the States of Austria, state of Upper Austria a ...

. About 29 percent of the municipality is forest, and 61 percent is farmland.

References

Cities and towns in Schärding District {{UpperAustria-geo-stub