Steinkreuzweg

Make sure when choosing your route that it matches your fitness level. Check whether the catering businesses you want to visit along the way are open. Pack your charged mobile phone and map material in your backpack. For cross-border routes, always carry a passport or ID card.

Sturdy footwear, functional clothing, sun and rain protection, map material, optional telescopic poles, first aid kit (blister plasters), sufficient provisions (snack, muesli bars, fruit, water).

Experience the Way of the Cross in the great outdoors! From the main square, you follow a circular path of a different kind through forest and fields. The 14 stations of this path, where you can fully focus on the theme, are easy to walk through with normal footwear. You start at the main square and follow the signs. After the last station, you enjoy a wonderful view over the town of Arbesbach with its dominating ruin – the Stockzahn of the Waldviertel – as well as the mighty late Baroque parish church and above all the magnificent landscape of the Waldviertel highlands with their typical strip fields.

Main square, municipal parking lot

A22 and S5 or S33 to Krems, B37 to Zwettl, then B124 towards Rappottenstein, straight ahead in Rappottenstein towards Arbesbach

All information about all bus and train lines to the Waldviertel can be found at www.vor.at or www.oebb.at.

Way of the Cross devotions during Lent, wood type binder at Steinberg (Sidestep), lunch at Gasthaus Kerschbaummayr

As a souvenir of your hike on the Steinkreuzweg in the Waldviertel, you can get a hiking badge from the Bärenwald Arbesbach shop. Hiking badges are round plaques designed and inscribed by wood burning, which serve as souvenirs and at the same time as awards for outstanding achievements. Diligent collectors of hiking badges are rewarded with a free premium hiking badge. More information can be found at www.wandermarken.at.