Pielachtal Pilgrimage Route: Stage 2/4: Hofstetten-Grünau - Loich

Pilgrimage route from Hofstetten-Grünau to Loich

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Elevation profile

18,97 km length

Tour dates
  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Route: 18,97 km
  • Ascent: 300 egm
  • Descent: 185 egm
  • Duration: 5:30 h
  • Lowest point: 319 m
  • Highest point:436 m
Features
  • Stage tour
  • Nice views
  • With refreshment stops

Details for: Pielachtal Pilgrimage Route: Stage 2/4: Hofstetten-Grünau - Loich

Brief description

Hofstetten-Grünau - Mainburg - Rabenstein - Kirchberg an der Pielach - Loich

Description

Below the Hofstetten-Grünau cemetery, you reach the Pielachtal cycle path, which you follow to Mainburg. On hiking trail 4/1, you go through the Lustwald to Rabenstein with the baptismal church of Cardinal Franz König.

Via Steinklamm, you then reach Warth on the Cardinal König Memorial Trail. From here, you follow the Pielachtal cycle path through Kirchberg an der Pielach to the end of the cycle path in Dobersnigg.

From here you turn left onto the state road to Loich, the 2nd stage destination on the pilgrimage route.

Starting point of the tour

Hofstetten-Grünau

Destination point of the tour

Loich

Directions

Starting from St. Pölten via the Pielachtal road B39.

Hofstetten-Grünau can be reached from St. Pölten by the Mariazell Railway.

Find the current timetable at https://www.mariazellerbahn.at/fahrplan-mzb.

Author's tip

Sights:
Parish church Hofstetten-Grünau
Baptismal church of Cardinal König, Rabenstein an der Pielach
Towerless St. Andrew's Church, Kirchberg an der Pielach
Dobersnigg Chapel, Loich
Parish church Loich

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