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Today, 03.03.2026
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Bachwiesenweg
Hiking tour Starting from Pöggstall - Main Square
- Difficulty: Easy
- Distance: 8,46 km
- Duration: 2:30 h
- Ascent: 91 m elevation gain
- Descent: 91 m elevation gain
Path no. 67
- Starting point of the tour
- Pöggstall - Main Square
- Tour destination
- Pöggstall - Main Square
- Difficulty: Easy
- Distance: 8,46 km
- Duration: 2:30 h
- Ascent: 91 m elevation gain
- Descent: 91 m elevation gain
- Fitness level required:2/6
- Overall experience:5/6
- Scenery:5/6
- Lowest point453 m
- Highest point530 m
- Round tour
- Suitable for families and children
Description
Worth seeing:
Pöggstall Castle - in 2017 it was the venue for the Lower Austrian provincial exhibition "Alles was Recht ist" (Everything that is law) - houses a museum about the history of law including the only "original" torture chamber and a documentation about the life and work of the artist Franz Traunfellner. The special exhibition "Pöggstall Castle - between the region and the imperial court" in the barbican is just as exciting and tells of the eventful restoration, significant finds and amazing stories about the lords of the castle. A 3D animation vividly shows how the keep and the later castle grew from its original structure to its present form.
In addition to Pöggstall Castle with its barbican (traffic circle), the very old St. Anna Church in the field (1140), the parish church of Pöggstall and the pilgrimage church in Neukirchen (1118) on the Ostrong, which is older than Maria Taferl as a pilgrimage church, are also worth a visit.
Leisure tips:
4 tennis courts, beach volleyball court, soccer pitch, a covered multi-sports facility, children's playgrounds, campsite, mountain bike and cycle routes, fishing and riding opportunities, Laas horse farm, Texas Longhorn Austria, Hotglass Atelier Faffelberger, Kräuterhof Schrammel, Josef Mitmasser brand painting.
- Route description You start from the starting point at the castle along the main street to the end of the town (direction Würnsdorf) where the Bachwiesenweg begins. The confluence of several flowing waters, interwoven with natural stream meadows as well as the pretty footbridges form the special attraction of the path, which can be used both as a cycling and walking path. Nature lovers can observe rare animal and plant species along the way. Several resting places invite you to linger. After about 1.5 km, a detour leads to Dietsam. At the end of the Bachwiesenweg in Würnsdorf begins the Kühhaltrunde, a forest path that mostly leads through the forest and returns to Pöggstall.
- Getting there A1 to Melk exit - drive over the Danube on B3a and switch to B3 and drive to Weitenegg - here switch to B216 and drive to Eitental - drive on L7223 Seiterndorf and on L7226 to Pöggstall
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Current weather on site
3° to 11°
2° to 11°
Tomorrow, 04.03.2026
Severe thunderstorm
Wind speed1,8 km/h
Tourism Association Ysper-Weitental
3683 Yspertal, Hauptstraße 9
(T) +43 7415 6767 25
(E) info.yw@waldviertel.at
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Waldviertel Tourism
3910 Zwettl, Sparkassenplatz 1/2/2
(T) +43 2822 54109
(E) info@waldviertel.at
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Letzte Änderung: 25 Feb 2026