Description
The market town of Perchtoldsdorf in the district of Mödling is located on the southern outskirts of Vienna - in the middle of the extensive Vienna Woods. The popular wine village promises wonderful days out and short breaks: with excellent gastronomy, limitless hikes and exciting sights from times long past. At the sports airfield, you can take to the skies in a balloon - the leisure center offers swimming, ice skating, saunas and climbing. Every year in July, the famous Perchtoldsdorf Summer Games take place in the castle courtyard.
Perchtoldsdorf: movie-ready medieval backdrops - quite real
First mentioned in a document around 1140, the town experienced an economic heyday in the late Middle Ages based on the wine trade. The "Zechen" - craftsmen's guilds - were also of great importance. The buildings that still characterize the townscape today also date from this period. The most important sights are the imposing BURG Perchtoldsdorf church complex - a cinematic tower castle in the center of the market square - and the freestanding, 60-meter-high fortified tower, which is the largest preserved fortified tower in Austria. The Gothic parish church also bears witness to the medieval history of the village.
Hiking vacations in Perchtoldsdorf: from huts to heaths
Extensive hikes start from Perchtoldsdorf into the Föhrenberge Nature Park: with three huts - on the Teufelstein mountain, at the summit of the Parapluieberg and at the Josefswarte - and the Perchtoldsdorfer Heide, a rare dry grassland on the slopes of the Vienna Woods. The area, which is so popular with walkers, is an important natural jewel: many of the habitats, plants and animals found here are particularly rare throughout Europe and are therefore protected by EU directives
