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Franziskusweg large round: Pitten - Wr. Neustadt - Pitten
Hiking tour Starting from Pitten - Market Square
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Distance: 38,53 km
- Duration: 9:30 h
- Ascent: 232 m elevation gain
- Descent: 232 m elevation gain
This spiritual-cultural circular pilgrimage trail at the gateway to the Bucklige Welt leads on easy-to-walk paths, with some slight ascents, through a varied landscape, past sights.
- Starting point of the tour
- Pitten - Market Square
- Tour destination
- Pitten - Market Square
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Distance: 38,53 km
- Duration: 9:30 h
- Ascent: 232 m elevation gain
- Descent: 232 m elevation gain
- Fitness level required:4/6
- Overall experience:4/6
- Scenery:4/6
- Lowest point267 m
- Highest point441 m
- Round tour
- With refreshment stops
- Accessibility by train and bus
Description
The circular hiking trail leads on easy-to-walk paths, with some slight ascents, through a varied landscape, past sights, some of which refer to the life and work of Saint Francis of Assisi.
In Pitten this is the Creation Path, a nature path as an oasis of silence and contemplation along the Desbordes stairs to the mountain and rock church and on to the tower museum. In Bad Erlach it is the Anthony Church. Saint Anthony of Padua was the first theological teacher of the Franciscans in Assisi. The Klemens Maria Hofbauer Gymnasium in Katzelsdorf was once a Franciscan monastery. The Capuchin or Jakob Church was also a Franciscan monastery. The brotherhood invites every year to the Portiuncula feast. Portiuncula: (Latin, "Little Piece of Earth") recalls the origin of the "Franciscan Movement" in Assisi. The "Glass Way of the Cross" in Linsberg/Bad Erlach invites you to follow the last way of life and suffering of Jesus and recalls his stigmata, which Saint Francis of Assisi also received in La Verna. At the recovery, nursing and residential home Mater Salvatoris in Brunn/Bad Erlach, people are cared for with dignity until the end. Francis also once cared for the sick and lepers.
- Equipment Always take suitable maps with you. Wear sturdy shoes adapted to the route, take sun and rain protection as well as water and a small snack. Take your mobile phone with you and save the mountain rescue emergency number: 140
- Route description Pitten:Market Square (Main Square) - Aspangerstrasse - Bergstrasse - Desbordes Stairs (Creation Path) - Bergstrasse (Mountain Church/St. George, Rock Church, Tower Museum of St. George) - Bergstrasse - Castle Path (Pitten Castle/no visits possible)Bad Erlach:Castle Path (branch to Ziegelofen, Walpersbach possible) Hubertus Chapel - Bromberger Strasse - Main Street (Hacker House, Parish Church/St. Anthony) - Riverside Road - Three Steps Path - Meadow Alley - Schleinzer Path (Thermen Cycle Path Velo 9)Lanzenkirchen:Schleinzer Path (Thermen Cycle Path Velo 9) - OfenbachstrasseKleinwolkersdorf:Fitness MileFrohsdorf:Wiener Neustadt Street - Mühlbach AlleyEichbüchl:Leithaau Paths - Ford Path - Eichbüchl StreetKatzelsdorf:Eichbüchl Street (Parish Church St. Radegund, former Franciscan Church, former Redemptorist Monastery, Klemens Maria Hofbauer Gymnasium, Francis Statue) - Eichbüchl Circular Hiking Trail KA2 - Cellar Lane (Castle, Village Church St. Lorenz, Tin Figure Museum) - Mühl Alley - At the Mill Stream (Cultural Hiking Trail KA3, Anthony Chapel) - Grill Lane - Main Street (Chalice Cross) - Thermen Cycle Path Velo 9Wr. Neustadt:Gutshof Lane - At the Foal Farm - Kinsky Avenue (Theresian Military Academy / Castle) - Grazer Street B17 - Szokoll Park - Neunkirchner Street - Railway Lane (former Franciscan Monastery, Capuchin or Jakob Church, branch to Wiener Neustadt Cultural Trail possible) - Railway Lane - RETURN WAY Neunkirchner Street - Carl Szokoll Park - Grazer Street B17 - Castle - Kinsky Avenue Frohsdorf Settlement - B54 - City Path (Pine Forest Round L2, Golf Course Föhrenwald)Lanzenkirchen:Lanzenkirchen Trift - City Path - School Lane - Main Square (Marian Statue, Parish Church St. Nicholas) - Ofenbach Street - Leitha Source Round L17Haderswörth:Leitha Source Round L17 (Leitha Source) - Leitha Alley - Thrush Alley - Railway Path - Haderswörth Trift Path - Haderswörth Main StreetBad Erlach:Erlach Street - Thermen StreetBad Erlach / Linsberg:Erlach Street - Thermen Street (Linsberg Asia Spa) - Linsberg Street - Brunner Street (Glass Way of the Cross, Ulrich Church, Forest Cemetery) - Forest PathsSchwarzau / Stfld.:Field Paths - Border Path - Pitten Street (Recovery, residential and nursing home) - Sheep SlopesPitten:At Krampenstein - Sheep Slopes - Kreithtal Path - Railway Lane - Alley Lane (Baroque and Rose Garden, Parish Courtyard with Arcade Courtyard and Parish Church St. Martin) - Alley Lane - Market Square (branch Wiener Neustadt Street to Regional Museum PIZ 1000 m possible) - Aspanger Street - Bergstrasse - Desbordes Stairs (Creation Path)
- Parking Free parking spaces are available in the communities. Note local conditions and short-term parking zones.
- Getting there From Vienna:A2, exit Wiener Neustadt South (S4) towards B54, turn off to Bad Erlach and PittenFrom Graz:A2, exit Seebenstein - B54 - Sautern - Pitten
- Public transport Each of the places is easily accessible by public transport. There are train stations in Pitten, Lanzenkirchen, Bad Erlach, Katzelsdorf and Wr. Neustadt.More information can be found at www.oebb.at and www.vor.at
- Editor’s tip Pilgrim accompaniment can be requested from Johann Weik: j.weik@gmx.atIt is recommended to walk the path counterclockwise, following the arrow direction. Along the pilgrimage routes there are various sculptures, small shrines and picture panels inviting you to pause.Along the way there are many inns and restaurants, as well as accommodation options.
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