Eyewitness Travel Austria guide describes Schärding's best feature as its central square, at the north end of which sits the Silberzeile row of gabled-roof houses.

Directly opposite the town on the Bavarian side of the river is Neuhaus am Inn, which is accessible via two bridges.

West Germanic Bavarians migrated about 30 years later up the Danube and occupied the area between the Vienna Woods and Lech.

The castle rock in the immediate vicinity of the Inn River was utilized early as a favorable geographical location.

Benefiting from its location by the Inn, Schärding became a center of trade, particularly for salt, timber, ores, wine, silk, glass, grain, textiles and livestock.

In April 1939, when Mayor Hans Ominger, Kreisamtsleiter Johann Pachman and other National Socialists hosted a hunters' meeting at the Aschenbrenner Inn, a portrait of Hermann Göring was decorated with fresh greens.

The asteroid 178243 Schaerding was named in the town's honour by its discoverer, Richard Gierlinger, who calls Schärding his hometown.