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title: Glass ovens
url: "https://www.upperaustria.com/en/oesterreich-poi/detail/430024527/glass-ovens.html"
description: "Deep in the forest in the 14th century a simple glassworks built near a spring. The people and their names, who produced glass near the \"Obere Sternbauer\" under difficult conditions and who carried the name Leonfelden with their goods out into the world, remained mysterious. The only testimonials are various finds of glass melting lumps, glass beads, quartz stones, glass melting port and remnants of glass melting furnaces."
date: 2017-02-22
modified: 2026-03-18
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# Glass ovens

Glass ovens
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   Bad Leonfelden, Oberösterreich, Österreich

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 Erreichbar über Wanderweg. Karten erhältich im Tourismusbüro
 4190 Bad Leonfelden

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Deep in the forest in the 14th century a simple glassworks built near a spring. The people and their names, who produced glass near the "Obere Sternbauer" under difficult conditions and who carried the name Leonfelden with their goods out into the world, remained mysterious. The only testimonials are various finds of glass melting lumps, glass beads, quartz stones, glass melting port and remnants of glass melting furnaces.

Discover this archaeological excavation on the Via-Leone hiking trails and near the Sternstein circuit.

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 **Glass ovens**

 Erreichbar über Wanderweg. Karten erhältich im Tourismusbüro
 4190 Bad Leonfelden

  Phone [ +43 7213 6397 ](tel:+4372136397)
  E-Mail [badleonfelden@muehlviertel.at](#mailto)
   Web [www.muehlviertel.at/](https://www.muehlviertel.at/ "New window")
   https://www.muehlviertel.at/

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  **Contact person**

 Tourismusverband Mühlviertel – Informationsbüro Bad Leonfelden
 Hauptplatz 19
 4190 Bad Leonfelden

  Phone [ +43 5 07263 - 101 ](tel:+43507263101)
  E-Mail [badleonfelden@muehlviertel.at](#mailto)
  Web [www.muehlviertel.at](https://www.muehlviertel.at "New window")

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 **We speak the following languages**

German

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- opened daily
- Can only be viewed from outside

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 [ Prices ](#ttgCollapsePreise)
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 **General price information**free

 [ Suitability ](#ttgCollapseEignung)
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- All weather
- Suitable for groups
- Suitable for schools
- Suitable for kids (all ages)
- Suitable for teenagers
- Suitable for seniors
- Suitable for single travelers
- Suitable for friends
- Suitable for couples

 **Season**- Spring
- Summer
- Autumn
- Winter

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