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Small Stössing circular hiking route
Hiking tour Starting from Municipality of Stössing 3073 Stössing 7
- Difficulty: Moderate
The former monastery and today's seminar hotel Refugium Hochstrass was a regional hub in the last century, and as we hike through it we can feel the former vitality and power of this place. Walking through the old Stations of the Cross into the forest and a visit to the small monastery cemetery afterwards invites you to pause for reflection and rest. The hike offers a variety of landscapes, the highlight of which is the panoramic Hegerberg.
- Starting point of the tour
- Municipality of Stössing 3073 Stössing 7
- Difficulty: Moderate
- Fitness level required:3/6
- Overall experience:5/6
- Scenery:6/6
- Lowest point0 m
- Highest point0 m
- Round tour
- Nice views
- With refreshment stops
The former monastery and today's seminar hotel Refugium Hochstrass was a regional hub in the last century, and as we hike through it we can feel the former vitality and power of this place. Walking through the old Stations of the Cross into the forest and a visit to the small monastery cemetery afterwards invites you to pause for reflection and rest. The hike offers a variety of landscapes, the highlight of which is the panoramic Hegerberg.
On the way from Stössing to the Refugium Hochstrass seminar hotel, we come across several wayside crosses and chapels. When we reach the hotel, the buildings and the traces in the landscape remind us of the once busy times of this place. Generations of young women were extensively educated here in the agricultural housekeeping school of the Christian order of the Daughters of Divine Love. The former convent was also of great importance as an economic, cultural and medical center for the surrounding area. In addition to the Stations of the Cross and the convent cemetery, you can visit the historic cheese dairy if you book in advance. Our route continues over extensive meadows and a ridge to the Hegerberg. After a wonderful view and good home cooking, we return to Stössing via the new Hegerbergstraße and an adjoining section of forest.
The Hegerberg shelter is currently closed. It is to reopen under new management from 1.1.2022.
Normal hiking equipment
The small Stössing circular hiking route starts in the town center at the municipal office in Stössing. The path leads us from the town square by the fountain on the Landeshauptstraße towards Brand-Laaben, after about 300 m we turn right towards Stollberg, the road runs along the Buchbach, we pass 3 trail crosses. Shortly before the turnoff to the Seminarhotel Refugium Hochstrass, we go uphill over an inconspicuous meadow path – up to an orchard alley and thus reach the Atzinger estate. Here we march past below and come via the farm driveway to the Reifbach farm road – the Klosterstraße. This leads us in switchbacks up to the Seminarhotel Refugium Hochstrass, over two more switchbacks to the Siedl estate and then, now already on a gravel road, to the exposed “Ecker” house, a former farmstead. Slightly uphill along the meadow ridge, our path leads into a hollow way that takes us northward to a wooded elevation. Keeping the path, we now hike straight through the Hegerberg saddle to the elevation and thus up to the Johann Enzinger shelter. After enjoying hearty home-style cooking, we take the return route via the Stössing Hegerberg road. Passing the Oberhegerberger farm, we enter a beech wood, where after a trail cross we leave the road to the left and shorten the way via a forest path. Back on the asphalt road, after about 800 m we descend to the Hendlgraben. From there it is about 10 minutes downstream on the Landeshauptstraße back to our starting point.
Parking lot in front of the municipal office
Westautobahn A1, exit Böheimkirchen (Exit 48), Landeshauptstraße LH110 to Stössing
By regional train from St. Pölten or Vienna West to Böheimkirchen. By BB bus to Stössing, stop Stössing
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Municipality of Stössing
3073 Stössing 7
Tel. 02744 / 5352
gemeinde@stoessing.gv.at
www.stoessing.gv.at
Seminarhotel Refugium Hochstrass
3073 Stössing, Hochstraß 7
Tel. 02744 / 20500
Johann Enzinger Shelter
Am Hegerberg
3072 Kasten
Tel. 02744 / 5652
Open year-round, no rest day, guest rooms
Gasthaus Damböck
3073 Stössing, Hendlgraben 2
Tel. 0676 / 3625812
Local supplier Regina Kainzbauer
3073 Stössing 37
Tel. 02744 / 20030
regina@mail.nahversorger.co.at
www.nahversorger.co.at
Saturday: 7:00 to 12:30
Butchery Stefan Girsch
3073 Stössing 12
Tel. 02744 / 5358
stefan.girsch@gmx.at
Opening hours: Thu. and Fri. 8:00–12:00, 14:30–18:00, Sat. 7:00–12:00
Letzte Änderung: 16 Mar 2026