Buchberger Way (Warth-Petersbaumgarten-Kaltenberg)
Hiking tour Starting from Petersbaumgarten Fire Station/Chapel
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Distance: 14,37 km
- Duration: 4:35 h
- Ascent: 549 m elevation gain
- Descent: 549 m elevation gain
Petersbaumgarten-Bernreith-Kienegg-Kaltenberg/Maria Schnee-Windhoh-Warth-Buchberg-Petersbaumgarten
- Starting point of the tour
- Petersbaumgarten Fire Station/Chapel
- Tour destination
- Petersbaumgarten Fire Station/Chapel
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Distance: 14,37 km
- Duration: 4:35 h
- Ascent: 549 m elevation gain
- Descent: 549 m elevation gain
- Fitness level required:4/6
- Overall experience:4/6
- Scenery:5/6
- Lowest point376 m
- Highest point852 m
- Round tour
- Nice views
- With refreshment stops
- Accessibility by train and bus
Petersbaumgarten-Bernreith-Kienegg-Kaltenberg/Maria Schnee-Windhoh-Warth-Buchberg-Petersbaumgarten
Your hikes in the Vienna Alps should be a thoroughly beautiful and safe experience. Please note the following:
Preparation
Make sure when choosing the route that it matches your experience and fitness level. Inform yourself in advance about the weather forecast. The weather in the mountains can change surprisingly fast. Therefore, always set out suitably equipped (e.g. rain protection).
Check whether the huts and snack stations you want to visit along the way are open. Inform someone about your chosen route and your planned return before you start.
More safety tips for your hike can be found here.
Wear suitable clothing and sturdy shoes. Remember rain and sun protection. Bring enough to drink.
Always take suitable maps with you. Wear sturdy shoes adapted to the route, take sun and rain protection as well as water and a snack. Take your mobile phone with you and save the emergency number for mountain rescue: 140
Marking white/green/white
Starting point at the chapel, through Quellengasse to the reservoir of the Ursula spring, right into the forest, steep uphill to Rotte Bernreith, continue to Kienegg (shortcut: turn left to "Kaltenberger Weg") to Kaltenberg with Pilgrimage Church Maria Schnee and Gasthaus Neumüller. Follow signs to Warth, marking from Kaltenberg to Warth white/blue/white.
The highest point at 852 m, the Kaltenberger Höhe, is reached shortly after Kaltenberg. Downhill via Windhoh (summit cross and hikers' book), shortly after a left shortcut back to Petersbaumgarten is possible. Past the lookout rock and climbing rock "Gretel", continue steeply down to Warth (refreshment options under author's tip, drinking water fountain at the main square).
Return to Petersbaumgarten via EuroVelo 9 with a rest area at the Pittenwehr or via Weghof through the forest.
in the immediate vicinity at Asfinag Warth
B54 or via the South Motorway exit Grimmenstein leads directly to Petersbaumgarten
More information can be found at www.oebb.at and www.vor.at
Wonderful view into the Pittental towards the Wechsel as well as onto Rax and Schneeberg
In Kaltenberg, Pilgrimage Church Maria Schnee
Recommended period
Places to stop for refreshment:
Gasthaus Pichler in Petersbaumgarten
Vienna Alps in Lower Austria, www.wieneralpen.at, +43 / 2622 / 78960
Opening hours: Mon - Thu 08:30 - 16:00 / Fri 08:30 - 13:00
Adventure region Bucklige Welt south, www.buckligewelt.info, +43 / 676 / 3509806
Letzte Änderung: 16 Mar 2026