Upper Austria Mariazellerweg: C: 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 up here you look down onto the Danube and the city of Linz and enjoy a wonderful view of the surrounding landscape. Over the Stations of the Cross, which begin south of the church (at the Pöstlingberg palace), we hike down to the Petrinum, the diocesan private high school of the Diocese of Linz, and then reach the main street. We follow this over the Danube and reach 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, but not the tallest, church in Austria. Its tower is only about two meters lower than that of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, at 134.8 meters. From the Volksgarten, we walk along Wiener Straße, which takes us to Ebelsberg, where we can visit Ebelsberg Castle and the church. On the Anton Bruckner hiking trail, it becomes a little more rural; we walk through the small community of Ölkam and can already see the towers of the Augustinian Canonical Monastery of St. Florian in the distance. The St. Florian monastery 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), a marble hall, and the imperial rooms.

Výchozí bod trasy

Pöstlingberg (Linz)

Cílový bod trasy

St. Florian

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

The Upper Austrian Mariazeller route begins at the baroque pilgrimage basilica on the Pöstlingberg (1,768 ft) with its wonderful panoramic view over Linz. The next three hours to Ebelsberg (866 ft) are dedicated to crossing the city of Linz. It is advisable to take a city map of Linz for this. From Urfahr (up to here via the Stations of the Cross, Knabenseminarstraße, Freistädterstraße) it goes over the Nibelungen Bridge to the main square, then over Landstraße and Wiener Straße to Ebelsberg. Further south on Florianerstraße, under the motorway bridge, shortly afterwards left uphill (together with the Brucknerweg and Salzsteigweg 09) to a hill (1,109 ft) and on to Ölkam (974 ft). Here we follow the signpost directly to St. Florian. Now along the road to Gemering and right south to St. Florian, where we meet the monastery directly at “Am Ölberg”, which is worth a longer visit. From Ebelsberg to St. Florian about 1.5 to 2 hours.