North-South Long-Distance Hiking Trail 605
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The trail measures around 520 km (including the Nordwaldkammweg 650 km) and touches the federal states of Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria and Carinthia.
The trail measures around 520 km (including the Nordwaldkammweg 650 km) and touches the federal states of Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria and Carinthia.
It starts on the 1017 m high Nebelstein in the upper Waldviertel and runs mostly in a southerly direction into the Styrian wine country to Eibiswald. Along the way, it touches a wide variety of landscapes and encounters Austria's cultural assets. With the exception of the Hochschwab and the Eisenerzer Reichstein (surefootedness and a head for heights required in some places), it can be described as a family hiking trail.
From the Bohemian Forest through the Wachau to the Alpine Foothills: Nebelstein (1,017 m) – Liebenau (970 m) – Schönbach (731 m) – Ottenschlag (849 m) – Jauerling Nature Park (960 m) – Spitz (199 m) – Melk (213 m) – Plankenstein (674 m). Easy tours, approx. 170 km.
From the Alpine Foothills to the Ötscher region and across the Styrian Mountains to the Middle Mur Valley: Plankenstein (674 m) - Ötscher Tormäuer Nature Park (437 m) - Ötscherschutzhaus (1,418 m) - Terzer Haus (1,626 m) - Mariazell (868 m) - Hohe Veitsch (1,981 m) - Seebergsattel (1,253 m) - Voisthaler Hut (1,654 m) - Hochschwab (2,277 m) - Sonnschien Hut (1,523 m) - Leobner Hut (1,582 m) - Präbichl (1,232 m) - Reichensteinhütte (2,128 m) - Trofaiach (658 m) - Leoben (541 m). Moderate to challenging hikes (Reichenstein), approx. 170 km.
From the Middle Mur Valley through the high alpine pastures of Western Styria to the Windisch hills: Leoben (541 m) – Mugel (1,630 m) – Fensteralm (1,642 m) – Lärchkogel (1,894 m) – Speikkogel (1,988 m) – Gaberl (1,547 m) – Hirschegger Alpe (1,871 m) – Pack (1,116 m) – Weinebene (1,668 m) – Koralpe (2,140 m) – Eibiswald (361 m). Moderate hikes, approx. 180 km.
The North-South Trail 05 is also a section of the European Long-Distance Hiking Trail E 6, and between Eibiswald and Gaberl, it also runs alongside the Via Alpina.
Source:
Austrian Alpine Club http://www.alpenverein.at/weitwanderer/weitwanderwege/2002_01_22_110.php
Austrian Alpine Club
Long-Distance Hikers Section, Gert Kienast
(T) +43 650 5436278
(E) weitwanderer@sektion.alpenverein.at
(I) http://www.alpenverein.at/weitwanderer
Waldviertel Tourism
3910 Zwettl, Sparkassenplatz 1/2/2
(T) +43 2822 54109
(E) info@waldviertel.at
(I) www.waldviertel.at
Letzte Änderung: 3 Aug 2026