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Mank Pilgrimage Path
Hiking tour Starting from Cathedral Square St. Pölten
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Distance: 32,03 km
- Duration: 10:00 h
- Ascent: 180 m elevation gain
- Descent: 159 m elevation gain
The pilgrimage trail leads from the center of the city of St. Pölten mainly on dirt roads to Mank. At the beginning you are on the Pilachtal Pilgrims' Trail and then continue partly on Roman paths towards Mank. You can see the Ötscher and the impressive mountain panorama of the Alpine foothills on many sections of the trail. The path leads past chapels that invite you to linger and reflect.
- Starting point of the tour
- Cathedral Square St. Pölten
- Tour destination
- Mank
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Distance: 32,03 km
- Duration: 10:00 h
- Ascent: 180 m elevation gain
- Descent: 159 m elevation gain
- Fitness level required:4/6
- Overall experience:5/6
- Scenery:5/6
- Lowest point250 m
- Highest point327 m
- Nice views
- With refreshment stops
Description
A pilgrimage to Mank
Today's plague comes out of the exhaust pipe. But if you go on a pilgrimage to Mank on foot, you are not spreading the plague, even though you are on a medieval pilgrimage against it. Pastors advised the people of St. Pöltern in times of plague to make a pilgrimage to "Mank am grünen Anger" to beg for help. This gave rise to an old connection between St. Pölten and Mank, which is also expressed elsewhere today: in the "Sweet Corner", a confectionery here and there. The 43.5-metre-high church tower of Mank with its unconventional onion dome can be seen from afar. Construction of the three-nave hall church began around 1400. The largest bell is called Herz Jesu and weighs 1,675 kilos.
- Route description Cathedral St. Pölten - Town Hall - Hafinger Way - Teufelhof - Schwadorf - Matzersdorf to the Pielach - Ebersdorf - Feilendorf - Saudorf - St. Margarethen - Unterradl - Schlatzendorf - Scharagraben - Kälberhart - Loipersdorf (stone Snake Cross, donated by St. Pölten) - Mank.The route follows marking 455 up to the Farthof in the Pielach valley and partially runs on the Roman road (651) from St. Margarethen to Mank.
- Parking Park & Ride (behind the station)
- Getting there To St. Pölten by Westbahn or via the A1.
- Public transport Westbahn, ÖBB
- Editor’s tip Enjoy the return trip to St. Pölten with the narrow-gauge railway "Krump'n" – better known as "the most beautiful track through the Alpine foothills".
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Current weather on site
4° to 11°
1° to 12°
Tomorrow, 04.03.2026
Light rain
Wind speed0,5 km/h
Restaurants in Teufelhof, Nadelbach, at the Ebersdorf Lake, St. Margarethen, and Mank.
Tourism Information St. Pölten
Tel. 02742/353 354
Mostviertel Tourism
Töpperschloss Neubruck
Neubruck 2/10, 3283 Scheibbs
T +43/7482/204 44
info@mostviertel.at
www.mostviertel.at
Letzte Änderung: 25 Feb 2026