Lembach: Linen Weaver Route

INTERESTING POINTS ALONG THE WAY:

Legendary cultural life:

• Mühlholz Chapel


• Local history museum: every 1st Sunday of the month 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. and by arrangement

Nature and movement:

• Grain viewpoint

SPIRITUAL HIKING ON THE DONAUSTEIG:

Linen or flax refers both to the fiber of the flax plant and the fabric made from it. The Mühlviertel has a long established culture of linen production, linen dyeing, and linen processing. The Mühlviertel linen oil is also highly valued.

On the “Linen Weaver Route” I am accompanied by the following questions:

• Life threads, how am I woven, what is my structure like, more – fine, coarse, brittle, tear-resistant, faded, natural, bleached, smoothed, creased…?


• Along the way I can engage with word plays.

The “Linen Weaver Route” leads over the marketplace, past the retirement home to the adventure playground. Here begins a wonderful walk downhill through the forest (Seufzerallee) along the Lembach stream to the Bruckwirt inn, which invites you to stop for a break. At the parking lot opposite, continue through the forest to the former Höll mill. Cross the small mill and follow the road to Obermühl. From there the path goes steeply uphill along the Kirchschlägersteig to Haar and via Edt to Lampersdorf (rest area with a view of the Danube). Then continue along a meadow path to Grain, where you can enjoy the beautiful wide view. Via the Mühlholzweg with a beautiful view to the Bohemian Forest, you come back to Lembach.

Local history museum - presentation of former ways of life and work with a focus on linen production. The museum can only be visited by prior arrangement.

Hiking backpack (incl. rain cover), sturdy footwear

Market town office Lembach i.M.
Schulstraße 2
4132 Lembach i.M.
Tel.: 0043(0)7286/8255-0
Fax: 0043(0)7286/8255-34
info@lembach.ooe.gv.at
www.gemeinde-lembach.at

DONAU STEIG HOSTS ALONG THE ROUTE:
Family hotel & distillery Bruckwirt/Stoaninger, Graben 6, 4131 Obermühl, Tel.: +43 7286 8321, www.bruckwirt.at,
- first demonstration distillery and whisky distillery Stoaninger
- 34 beds

Guesthouse Gierlinger “Danube paradise”, Grafenau 17, 4131 Obermühl, Tel.: +43 7286 7213, www.gasthof-gierlinger.at, 18 beds

Fish guesthouse Aumüller
4131 Obermühl 13, Tel.: +43 7286 7216, www.fischgasthof.at
- homemade fruit juices and musts (not directly on the hiking trail, approx. 300 m away)
- 22 beds

OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS ALONG THE ROUTE:
Inn Haderer, Marktpl. 12, Tel.: +43 7286 8237, closed Tue., Wed.
Cafe bakery Pumberger, Marktpl. 6, Tel.: +43 7286 7530, Sat. evening, Sun. closed
Cafe Fierlinger, Falkensteinstraße 12, Tel.: +43 7286 8325, closed Mon.
Vitalhotel Lembacher Hof, Falkensteinstraße 4, Tel.: +43 7286 8257, 52 beds
Inn Kislinger, Falkensteinstraße 12, Tel.: +43 7286 8251, 6 beds