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Kierlingstein hiking trail, no. 32
Hiking tour Starting from Main square Groß Gerungs
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Distance: 12,86 km
- Duration: 3:15 h
- Ascent: 270 m elevation gain
- Descent: 270 m elevation gain
The Kierlingstein is one of the places in the Groß Gerungs power arena, which also includes the stone pyramid, the globe, the sacrificial stone and the Klauskapelle chapel. These places invite you to pause and recharge your batteries.
- Starting point of the tour
- Main square Groß Gerungs
- Tour destination
- Main square Groß Gerungs
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Distance: 12,86 km
- Duration: 3:15 h
- Ascent: 270 m elevation gain
- Descent: 270 m elevation gain
- Fitness level required:3/6
- Overall experience:4/6
- Scenery:5/6
- Lowest point632 m
- Highest point744 m
- Round tour
Description
The Kierlingstein is one of the places in the Groß Gerungs power arena, which also includes the stone pyramid, the globe, the sacrificial stone and the Klauskapelle chapel. These places invite you to pause and recharge your batteries.
- safety instructions Make sure when choosing the route that it matches your fitness level. Check whether the gastronomy establishments you want to visit are open. Pack your mobile phone and map material in your backpack.
- Equipment Sturdy footwear, functional clothing, sun and rain protection, map material, if necessary telescopic poles, first aid kit (blister plasters), sufficient provisions (snack, muesli bars, fruit, water).
- Route description The path leads past the roundabout over a field and meadow path to the Opferstein and further to Thail. After the village, you turn onto a field path and reach the road to Böhmsdorf. There you hike past the Böhmsdorf mill to the end of the village and follow the path towards Kierlingstein. This 6-meter long natural monument, an object of the Kraftarena Groß Gerungs, lies on four large stone blocks and has a bowl that is always filled with water. Here you can also try out the listening island. The return route is the same path back to the Böhmsdorf mill, but here you continue hiking towards Haid. At the newly built chapel, you cross the federal road and come back to Groß Gerungs via Ober Rosenauerwald and through a forest area along the Zwettl stream.
- Parking Parking spaces in Groß Gerungs,Beware of the short-term parking zone at the main square of Groß Gerungs.
- Getting there Coming from St. Pölten via S33 to Krems, further via B37 and B38 to Zwettl and via B38 to Groß Gerungs.Coming from Vienna via A22 and S5 to Krems, further via B37 and B38 to Zwettl and via B38 to Groß Gerungs.Coming from the west via A1 to Linz, further on A7 and S10 to Freistadt, B38 to Karlstift, B38 to Groß Gerungs.
- Public transport By bus from Krems via Zwettl, from Linz via Karlstift or Arbesbach or from Gmünd to Groß Gerungs.Waldviertel railway from Gmünd to Groß Gerungs in the summer months.All information about all bus and train lines to the Waldviertel can be found at www.vor.at or at www.oebb.at.
- Editor’s tip Also get to know the other places of the Kraftarena Groß Gerungs. (www.kraftarena.at).Also recommended: a ride with the Waldviertel railway.
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Municipality of Groß Gerungs
3920 Groß Gerungs, Hauptplatz 18
(T) +43 2812 8611-0
(E) office@gerungs.at
(I) www.gerungs.at
(I) www.kraftarena.at
Waldviertel Tourism
3910 Zwettl, Sparkassenplatz 1/2/2
(T) +43 2822 54109
(E) info@waldviertel.at
(I) www.waldviertel.at
Letzte Änderung: 25 Feb 2026