Lebensweg - Stage 8: 40 - 50 years: Awareness / Doubts
Hiking tour Starting from Sallingberg
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Distance: 17,02 km
- Duration: 4:45 h
- Ascent: 299 m elevation gain
- Descent: 133 m elevation gain
Sallingberg - Ottenschlag - Bad Traunstein
- Starting point of the tour
- Sallingberg
- Tour destination
- Bad Traunstein
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Distance: 17,02 km
- Duration: 4:45 h
- Ascent: 299 m elevation gain
- Descent: 133 m elevation gain
- Fitness level required:3/6
- Overall experience:5/6
- Scenery:5/6
- Lowest point728 m
- Highest point914 m
- Stage tour
Description
You could actually sit back and relax now, after all, you've made it. We're doing well, aren't we? The debts are paid off, the children are growing up or have even left home.
The question of meaning arises again, sometimes cautiously and quietly, sometimes loudly and urgently.
Between 40 and 50, there is an opportunity to break the rut, rediscover yourself and "reformat". To become curious again, to treat yourself to something, many things, that you can't buy. Take a look at your life as you walk!
- Route description From the world main poppy location over the Weyrerteich to the WachtsteinTo "poppy yourself" – that's easy in the poppy village Armschlag! … After that, it continues to Ottenschlag, where the castle shapes the townscape. The path leads towards Bad Traunstein, past the Weyrerteich with the striking viaduct – after a stretch through a high forest, you can already see the church of Bad Traunstein. At Wachtstein, a wonderful view opens up.
- Getting there From Vienna via the A22 Stockerau – via 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 Plan your arrival: www.lebensweg.info/home-2/anreise/
Recommended period
Association for the Establishment and Expansion of the Lebensweg
3631 Ottenschlag, Unterer Markt 10
(E) office@lebensweg.info
(I) www.lebensweg.info
Tourism Office Ysper-Weitental
3683 Yspertal, Hauptstraße 9
(T) +43 7415 6767 25
(E) info.yw@waldviertel.at
Waldviertel Tourism
3910 Zwettl, Sparkassenplatz 1/2/2
(T) +43 2822 54109
(E) info@waldviertel.at
(I) www.waldviertel.at
Letzte Änderung: 16 Mar 2026