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Johannesbachklamm Würflach
Hiking tour Starting from Würflach - entrance Johannesbachklamm at the western edge of the town
- Difficulty: Easy
- Distance: 8,99 km
- Duration: 2:45 h
- Ascent: 235 m elevation gain
- Descent: 225 m elevation gain
The approximately 1 km long Johannesbachklamm gorge near Würflach leads children and parents through an impressive landscape. Families hike along gorges and over bridges through the Hohe Wand - Föhrenwelt region.
- Starting point of the tour
- Würflach - entrance Johannesbachklamm at the western edge of the town
- Tour destination
- Würflach - entrance Johannesbachklamm at the western edge of the town
- Difficulty: Easy
- Distance: 8,99 km
- Duration: 2:45 h
- Ascent: 235 m elevation gain
- Descent: 225 m elevation gain
- Fitness level required:2/6
- Overall experience:5/6
- Scenery:6/6
- Lowest point445 m
- Highest point595 m
- Round tour
- With refreshment stops
- Suitable for families and children
Description
The 60 m deep Johannesbachklamm gorge, starting at the western edge of Würflach, runs through the Wetterstein limestone between the "Eichberg" in the north and the "Dürenberg" in the south. It took the water many millions of years to eat its way through the limestone and leave behind deep incisions - traces of this process can still be found high above the stream bed on the rock faces in the form of niches ("Kolken") and bowl-shaped depressions, the so-called "Mühlen".
The pine forests of the Eichberg were used for pitch extraction until the 1960s. The "pitch huts" at the gorge exit and on the eastern edge of Würflach bear witness to this former occupation of the local inhabitants.
The Johannesbachklamm was opened up to visitors by nature lovers in 1902 by means of secured paths. Wide steps and wooden bridges span repeatedly across the gorges. The damp gorge walls and shady forests offer hikers a welcome cool-down, especially on hot summer days.
The fauna of the gorge is varied: you can find various species of lizards, fire salamanders, grass snakes, dragonflies, butterflies and crayfish and trout in the waters of the Johannesbach. Various special plants such as ferns, cyclamen, checkerboard flowers and the rare orchid grow in the woods.
- safety instructions Your hikes in the Vienna Alps should be a completely enjoyable and safe experience. Please note the following: Preparation Make sure that the route you choose matches your experience and fitness level. Check the weather forecast beforehand. The weather in the mountains can change surprisingly fast. Therefore, always set off appropriately 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 planned return before you start.
- Equipment Always take suitable maps with you. Wear sturdy shoes adapted to the route, bring 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 The parking lot at the beginning of the Johannesbachklamm is the starting point for the circular route through the gorge. Passing a snack station, we reach the actual beginning of the gorge after a short time.After hiking through the gorge towards Greith, we arrive at a meadow where there is also a small children’s playground and another newly built snack station. We continue along a forest path, which after some time becomes an asphalt road (towards Greith), turn right at the next fork with a large tree, and take the path towards Grünbach. There, we reach a street fork with a dead end, follow it for a short distance, and turn right after about 50 m up into the forest.From now on, we follow the yellow marking "Willendorf via Eichberg"; at the fork near the hunting stand, we go left, shortly after right following the signs "Johannesbachklamm" along the rest of this route.The return is either towards the Johannesbachklamm entrance through the gorge along the other side of the stream to the parking lot at Würflach on partly very rocky paths. Or you take the path towards the Johannesbachklamm exit and from there go through the gorge back to the starting point.
- Parking Free parking is available at the beginning of the Johannesbachklamm.
- Getting there The municipality of Würflach can be reached by car from Vienna and Graz via the A2. Leave the highway at the Wiener Neustadt junction, Neunkirchen-Ost/Wiener Neustadt exit, continue towards Neunkirchen, then towards St. Egyden to reach Würflach.
- Public transport Take the regional train from Vienna towards Payerbach-Reichenau and get off at the Neunkirchen stop. Boarding is also possible at Wiener Neustadt main station. Würflach can be reached by bus from Neunkirchen. Alternatively: from Wiener Neustadt main station take the regional train to Puchberg am Schneeberg and get off at Rothengrub stop. 20 minutes on foot to the Johannesbachklamm.Also observe the bus schedules of the bus companies Retter and Partsch.More information at: www.retter-linien.at/www.vor.at/efa/routenplaner
- Editor’s tip Combine your hike with a longer stay in the Schneebergland. For an overnight stay in Würflach, the Herrenhaus Woltron is recommended!
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Further information:
Municipality of Würflach www.wuerflach.at ; gemeinde@wuerflach.at; +43 2620 2410
Vienna Alps in Lower Austria, www.wieneralpen.at, +43 / 2622 / 78960
Letzte Änderung: 16 Mar 2026