Oberkappel is a municipality in the district of Rohrbach in the state of Upper Austria.

The E8 runs from Ireland via, among others, the Netherlands (called Oeverloperpad and Lingepad in the Netherlands) through Germany, the north of Austria and Slovakia to the borders of Poland and Ukraine, and also includes a section in Bulgaria, with the future target Istanbul in Turkey.

The E10 comes from Lapland and runs via Finland, the former GDR, the Czech Republic and Austria to Bozen/Bolzano in northern Italy; There are plans to extend the route via France and the Spanish east coast to Gibraltar.

During the secularization of 1803, the place with most of the Hochstiftischen area fell into the hands of Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany and his electorate of Salzburg.

During World War II Oberkappel was the place where Allied troops first entered Austrian territory.