Schmuggler-Wanderung

This hiking trail has the trail number 17. This hike starts in Engelhartszell at the Danube Stories exhibition (at the market town hall) and follows the "Danube Trail" to the Danube ferry, where you cross over to the other bank. Here you will find the start of hiking trail 678, the "Frauensteig". From here, the hiking trail belongs to the municipality of Neustift im Mühlkreis.

After the forest, continue to Kleinmollsbeg and Forsetdt to the "Schürz" smugglers' inn. Follow the signs to Neustift. In the centre, leave the road 150 m before the customs building and turn left onto the Haitzendorf estate road. After 100 metres, turn right past the splinter silo to a path that leads to boundary stone 47.

Follow the white-green-white markings to the village of Linden. Continue to Gottsdorf and along Riedler Straße to the historically interesting village of Riedl. You leave the castle ruins of "Neu- and Altjochenstein" behind you until you reach Jochenstein. Here, the "Haus am Strom" invites you to visit. After crossing the power station, you return to Engelhartszell, where it is worth stopping at the former imperial toll house.