Upper Austria Mariazellerweg: A: 1st stage: Pöstlingberg - St. Florian

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The starting point for the first stage of the Mariazell pilgrimage route is the beautiful pilgrimage church, the "Basilica of the Seven Sorrows of Mary," on the Pöstlingberg above Linz. From here you look down on the Danube and the city of Linz and enjoy a wonderful view of the surrounding landscape. We follow the Stations of the Cross, which begins south of the church (at Pöstlingberg Schlossl), down to the Petrinum, the diocesan private grammar school of the Diocese of Linz, and then reach the main street. We follow this across the Danube and arrive at the main square with the famous plague column, the Old Town Hall, the Old Cathedral, and the Minorite Church. A visit to the Mariendom, built in 1862 in the heart of the city, is particularly worthwhile. The cathedral is the largest, though not highest, church in Austria. Its tower is only about two meters lower at 134.8 meters than that of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. From the Volksgarten we walk along Wiener Straße, which leads us to Ebelsberg, where we can visit Ebelsberg Castle and the church. At the Anton Bruckner hiking trail it gets a little more rural; we walk through the small community of Ölkam and can already see the towers of the Augustinian Canons Monastery St. Florian in the distance. The Stift St. Florian is one of the largest and most famous Baroque monasteries in Upper Austria. It houses, among other things, a monastery library, various art collections (e.g., the Gothic panel paintings of the Sebastian altar by Albrecht Altdorfer - Danube School), marble hall & emperor's room.

Výchozí bod trasy

Pöstlingberg/Linz

Cílový bod trasy

St. Florian

Popis trasy Upper Austria Mariazellerweg: A: 1st stage: Pöstlingberg - St. Florian

The Upper Austria Mariazellerweg begins at the baroque pilgrimage basilica on the Pöstlingberg (539 m) with its wonderful panoramic view of Linz. The next 3 hours to Ebelsberg (264 m) are dedicated to crossing the city of Linz. It is advisable to carry a city map of Linz for this. From Urfahr (until here via the Stations of the Cross, Knabenseminarstraße, Freistädterstraße), you cross the Nibelungen Bridge to the main square, then continue via Landstraße and Wiener Straße to Ebelsberg. On Florianerstraße further south, under the motorway bridge, shortly afterwards turn left uphill (together with the Brucknerweg and Salzsteigweg 09) to a hill (338 m) and further to Ölkam (297 m). Here we follow the signpost directly to St. Florian. Now along the street to Gemering and then right south to St. Florian, where we meet the monastery directly “Am Ölberg,” which is worth a longer visit. From Ebelsberg to St. Florian about 1.5 to 2 hours.