Danube Heights Circular Hiking Trail Pulgarn-Hohenstein

Starting place: 4221 Steyregg

Destination: 4221 Steyregg

Lindengasse 9
4040 Linz

Multi-day tour

Circular route

Short description:
The Danube Heights Circular Hiking Trail passes through 3 municipalities, from Pulgarn via Forst to St. Georgen an der Gusen, Frankenberg and Kruckenberg up to Mauthausen. This describes the section Pulgarn - Hohenstein and back.

Quality of experience: ****

Recommended season:

January
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Properties:

Loop
Multi-stage route
Scenic

Description:
From the Pulgarn train and bus stop, we walk to the Pulgarn monastery church. "Am Reichenbach" we follow the path with the green and white marking. Upon reaching Hohenstein at 526 m, 5 minutes further, past a hunting lodge, we arrive at a really beautiful rest place, the "stoanan Stubn" with benches on a striking granite rock and a good view from Luftenberg to Pfenningberg! Back to Pulgarn, we continue on the path, first a somewhat steep forest path down, first crossroad straight ahead, at the second crossroad left, and at the third crossroad with a hut left again. On the forest road we arrive after 15 minutes at the "Faschinger Rast" and continue on the Danube Heights Circular Hiking Trail back to Pulgarn.Equipment:
Hiking backpack (including rain cover), sturdy footwearAdditional information:

https://www.bergfex.at/sommer/oberoesterreich/touren/wanderung/345129,steyregg-donau-hoehen-rundwanderweg-pulgarn--hohenstein-und-zurueck/

Tour and route information

Starting place: 4221 Steyregg

Destination: 4221 Steyregg

duration: 2h 19m

length: 7,5 km

Altitude difference (uphill): 274m

Altitude difference (downhill): 274m

Lowest point: 248m

Highest point: 520m

difficulty: medium

condition: medium

panoramic view: Great panorama

Paths covering:

Asphalt, Hiking trail

Starting point: Pulgarn train and bus stop

Destination: Pulgarn train and bus stop

further information:

Multi-day tour
Circular route

Along the trail

Rastplatz Mühlviertelblick

Indoor forest and carpenters...
The montane beech (fir-spruce mixed) forest is the main natural forest type in the region. The tall forests look like large halls. This forest type was and is endangered by intensification of utilisation and conversion to spruce forests. Unfortunately, there are hardly any near-natural mixed forests left. One exception is the area around Linz. Large, vigorous, beech-dominated forests have been preserved here in large forest estates and farm forests. The large forests lack the historical overexploitation and thus represent valuable remnants of this forest type. The undergrowth includes woodrush, wood hawkweed and wallflower. Old-growth beech islands are important for the black woodpecker, for example, which likes to make its home in free-standing beech trees.

Many wolves once roamed the Pfenningberg. The Danube legend "Der mit dem Wolf geigt" (The one who fiddles with the wolf) tells how a tailor escaped with his life one night when he encountered a wolf.