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Lebensweg - Stage 12: Death and beyond: Crossing the border / the second transition
Hiking tour Starting from Leiben
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Distance: 14,55 km
- Duration: 4:00 h
- Ascent: 371 m elevation gain
- Descent: 230 m elevation gain
Leiben – Losau - Hasling- Artstetten – Unterthalheim – Maria Taferl
- Starting point of the tour
- Leiben
- Tour destination
- Maria Taferl
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Distance: 14,55 km
- Duration: 4:00 h
- Ascent: 371 m elevation gain
- Descent: 230 m elevation gain
- Fitness level required:3/6
- Overall experience:5/6
- Scenery:5/6
- Lowest point277 m
- Highest point439 m
- Stage tour
Description
The second transition. The journey begins. The last mystery that science fails to solve: Where to? What will be there?
We do not know. In a world of reason and technical feasibility, not knowing has no place. Death becomes a taboo.
Encountering it is inevitable. It is up to each person to face death with full fear or to approach this transition calmly, perhaps even with some curiosity.
Walk this stage with awareness of your own feelings toward death.
- Route description Experience the second transition in the “plain”From Leiben, where there is a great view of the Danube in Heinzing, the route continues to Maria Taferl along the Jakobsweg. In Losau, passing the wooden bell tower, it proceeds comfortably through Hasling to Artstetten. There you can visit Artstetten Castle with its bright crypt. Over Unterthalheim, you can already see the towers of the Maria Taferl basilica, where the stage also ends.
- Getting there From Vienna via the A22 Stockerau – over Krems S5 and B37 into the WaldviertelFrom Vienna via the A1 St. Pölten – S33 Krems – B37 into the WaldviertelFrom Salzburg or Upper Austria – Linz – A1 exit Ybbs – B36 into the Waldviertel
- Public transport Find the best connection to the Lebensweg here: www.lebensweg.info
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Current weather on site
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Tomorrow, 12.02.2026
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Association for the Establishment and Expansion of the Lebensweg
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Ysper-Weitental Tourist Office
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Waldviertel Tourism
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