Pankrazius-Wanderung

This hiking trail has the trail number 14. The starting point of the hiking route is the parish church of St. Aegidi with its beautifully landscaped war memorial. From the village centre, the hike leads in a south-easterly direction, initially on pavements and footpaths past the schools and a protected lime tree, to Lehen. Once there, turn right after the blocks of flats onto Güterweg Lehen. At a fork in the road, take the left-hand road, which turns into a dirt track. Downhill and uphill past Grübl, follow Roßgattern-Straße on the right to Gasthaus Auinger in Fraunhof. Opposite the inn, a path leads through the forest to Mittelbach, where it winds its way past meadows and fields to reach the romantic foothills of the Kößlbachtal nature reserve.

The ruins of Burgstall, whose masses of stone have towered over the Kößlbachtal valley for more than 800 years, await you, as does the Pankraz Chapel, where healing water flows from a spring - a place that conveys complete peace and tranquillity.

Follow the Mittelbach goods road via Maierhof, Mittelbach and Tullern in the direction of St. Aegidi. You reach the Burgblick on the panoramic road. After a relaxing break under fruit trees with a view of Rannariedl Castle in the Mühlviertel, the trail leads back to the starting point.