4,02 km length
The market town of Altenmarkt is located in the valley of the Triesting, which also forms the southern boundary of the Biosphere Reserve Vienna Woods. This is the largest contiguous deciduous forest area in Europe. North of the Triesting, typical Vienna Woods hiking opportunities prevail over gentle hills, through deciduous forests, across meadows, and past individual homesteads. The best starting point for these well-developed hiking trails is at Hafnerberg.
South of the Triesting rises the steep wooded northern flank of Hocheck, the easternmost thousand-meter peak of the Alps, offering hikers a longer route to the observation tower.
Besides enjoying nature, it is also the sacred buildings along the Via Sacra that attract many visitors to Altenmarkt. There are 3 pilgrimage churches (Klein Mariazell, Hafnerberg, and Altenmarkt) in the municipality, connected by a landscape-rich hiking trail. Around Hafnerberg and Nöstach, there are many mystical places, places of power, which are also worth a visit and can be explored individually.
On this short but varied hike, the Tamberg, a 560 m high wooded ridge extending northeast from Hafnerberg, is circled clockwise. Before starting, one should visit the baroque pilgrimage church "Our Lady" at Hafnerberg to admire the baroque high altar and the ceiling fresco.
From the church, only a few steps lead to the bright pine forest, where a Stations of the Cross with 14 stations gently ascends to the Fuchsbauern Chapel. Along the way, you pass a mystical place with a hole stone. A short detour takes the hiker to the mystical place Druidenstein, a rock needle on a mountain summit. On the way to the Fuchsbauer farm, you pass the Kalendarium with the Visur hill and other hole stones. The view here ranges from Peilstein via St. Pankraz and in the other direction from Reisalpe via Araburg to Hocheck. After the junction at the Hübner Cross, turn right and lose about 100 meters in altitude down to the Nöstachbach. The return route mainly leads along the eastern edge of Tamberg with views of Peilstein and Nöstach back to Hafnerberg. There is a place to stop at the beginning and end of the route (Gasthaus zur Linde, Hafnerberg).
Starting point of the tourChurch at Hafnerberg
From the parking lot north of the church, follow the signposts Kleinmariazell: WWW 06 red-white-red
Via Sacra circular hiking route, "Mystical Places, Druidenstein and Kalendarium," and climb briefly steeply at the chapel "In Honor of Moricus." (Here, the Panorama circular hiking route branches off to the right.)
On a forest road over a saddle and then on a beautiful, wide hiking trail through bright pine forest, you pass 14 stations of the Stations of the Cross. After passing through a gate and past a hole stone, you reach the bright meadows around the Fuchsbauer Chapel. The path descends slightly to another gate, in front of which you briefly climb left on a path to a wooded hill where the Druidenstein is located. Back to the gate and level over the meadow you come to the Fuchsbauer farm (Kalendarium, hole stones), which you pass on the east side with a view. 300 m after the farm, you reach the Hübner Cross. Here you turn right onto the asphalt road and follow the blue marking towards Nöstach. Downhill on the asphalt road past the Seidl farm, after 700 m and 100 meters in altitude you reach the Nöstachbach with the Budler Bridge. You leave the asphalt road before the bridge to the right (sign Tamberg circular route) and follow a forest road briefly on the right side of the stream until, just before a meadow, a path leads right up along the forest edge. Soon you reach a comfortable forest road, which you follow gently uphill, always along the forest edge or just inside the forest, back to Hafnerberg.
A2 South Motorway exit Leobersdorf, on the Hainfelder federal road B 18 until just before Altenmarkt, turn right onto B 11 towards Alland, to Hafnerberg.
Alternatively via the A21 exit Alland or Mayerling, to Alland and turn onto B11 to Nöstach and continue to Hafnerberg.
ParkingParking lot at the Hafnerberg church (parking lot north of the church)
Normal hiking equipment
Map recommendationsÖK 25 V, No. 57 Neulengbach, scale 1:25,000 Hiking map of the market town Altenmarkt "Hiking in the Vienna Woods" 1:28,000, available at the municipal office
