Dem Pesenbach entlang

Impressive hike in the nature reserve
ATTENTION: No winter service!


Tired? Exhausted? Tired? There are two ways to combat this: either a revitalising Kneipp cure at the Sisters of Mary in Bad Mühllacken or a hike into the Pesenbach Valley, which flows into the lowlands at the Kurhaus. The route into the romantic, protected forest gorge first leads to the natural swimming pool, the spring intake for the spa and the Klausbrücke bridge. Beyond the bridge, a comfortable promenade path leads further into the valley. However, we stay on the right bank, above which an initially wide path winds up and down. We soon reach the turn-off to the Schlagerwirt, where we can take a second detour, this time for culinary reasons. At the bottom of the valley, however, you come to a small waterfall and the 5-metre-deep Grüner Tümpel (another path on the right leads to the Schlagerwirt - a tip for the way back). We hike further into the narrow valley incision, past the Black Gorge, the Sunntümpel and the Blauer Tümpel. We reach the Blaue Gasse, the legendary Teufelsbottich and finally, after a short but steep climb, the landmark of the Pesenbachklamm gorge: in the middle of the forest, the 12-metre-high Kerzenstein towers into the air - slender, valued by climbers as a training ground and crowned with a cross. Geologists argue about whether it was really formed by frost weathering during the last ice age. For folklorists, on the other hand, it is clear that it is a fertility stone that has been worshipped since time immemorial, i.e. a place of power. Most visitors turn back here to hike back to the starting point along one of the aforementioned trail options.

Rest options:
Gasthaus Schlagerwirt, Jausenstation Fürstberger, Cafe Einkehr (in the Kurhaus Bad Mühllacken), Cafe Rechberger, Hotel Restaurant Faustschlössl.