Popis
North of the Triesting, there are mostly leisurely hikes through the typical Vienna Woods landscape, with gentler hills and forest areas interrupted by many meadows and pastures. Here you will encounter both the typically black pine forests of the region and magnificent beech high forests. An exception in these gentle landscapes is the Peilstein, whose limestone walls rise prominently from the forest and which is the traditional climbing area for Viennese. In Weissenbach itself, the Triestingtal Museum is worth seeing, presenting about 10,000 exhibits from the valley in its extensive collection, as well as the church and cemetery. In the district of Neuhaus, the renovated Neuhaus castle with the parish and the forest class are worth a visit.
This circuit can also be easily done using public transport (Triestingtal railway), but it extends the route by 1.5 km.
To be able to ascend the Hocheck from Weissenbach in a circular route, some kilometers of asphalt must be accepted at the beginning and end of the route. At least at the beginning, the asphalt can partly be avoided by not hiking on the road from Weissenbach to Furth, but choosing the more beautiful variant presented here via Niemthal and Rehgras. You are rewarded with beautiful views of Furth and the Further mountains. However, a few more altitude meters must be climbed. The ascent from Rohrbach to the Hocheck leads surprisingly quickly to the summit with the observation tower via the Krennweg.
Since the beech forests on the flanks of the Hocheck are currently being cleared on a large scale by chainsaws, you already have increasing views of the pre-Alps during the ascent. However, this is outdone by the 360° panorama from the Meyringer Warte at the summit, as the mountain view here extends to Schneeberg, Rax, and Ötscher. Afterwards, you continue to hike with a view down the eastern ridge of the Hocheck until you descend through mixed forests to Eberbach. From here, asphalt is back, first on a little-trafficked road to the Triesting, then back along the Triestingtal cycle path to Weissenbach. Weissenbach lies in the Triestingtal exactly where the Furthergraben from the southwest and the Nöstachbach from the north flow into the valley. The former summer resort, which is still accessible by train, offers itself as a starting point for several beautiful hikes.
Výchozí bod trasy
Weissenbach on the Triesting, church square
Cílový bod trasy
Weissenbach on the Triesting, church square
Popis trasy From Weissenbach to the alpine Hocheck, 1,037m
From the parking lot (sign Wiener Wallfahrerweg, green marking), walk between the church and the local heritage museum and follow Niemthalstraße (green marking) uphill. Passing meadows, you first reach the new district of Niemthal and then immediately after the old district with the "Andrä Hof" on the road. 300 m after the farm, at the highest point of the road, a forest road (sign "Rehgras") branches off to the right, which you follow to the forest edge. This now leads uphill through rocky terrain until you cross a clearing (green hall) on a flatter section of the path. After a crest, slightly downhill crossing a large meadow, you then take the left turn at a fork in the beech forest (marking poorly visible). Now a forest road runs along the slope until you cross a meadow and continue through the forest to a high seat.
Here you leave the forest (the blue marking from Eberbach joins from the right), go straight over the meadows (sign: Rehgras, Furth, green marking) on a field path to the Rehgras farm, which you pass through a green iron gate. Along a forest piece and past a cross, now over meadows with a beautiful view of Furth and the Further mountains straight downhill until the path continues between two wooden fences.
A bit further through the forest and crossing a small stream, you reach an asphalt road that leads directly down to Rohrbach (just before the toll road).
Here, before a chapel under two lindens, following the ÖTK sign "Hocheck via Krennweg" and the blue marking, turn right into the Rohrbach valley. Following the road past a carpentry, you reach the "Pfefferhäusl." Here you follow a meadow path at the valley floor to the toll road and then turn left immediately into the forest. Now hike on a forest road along the valley edge until it returns to the road on the right. From here you now walk a section on the toll road until the first significant left bend. Here you leave the toll road and stay on the right (in walk direction) side of the creek. Staying close to the creek, the blue marking guides you further on a path down the Rohrbach valley. At the valley end, the path turns left and crosses the creek to now ascend steeper and crossing through beech forest to a forest road.
Always following the blue marking, you now climb briskly higher on cart tracks and paths, crossing the toll road several times. Here, fresh clearings, beech high forest, and young forest alternate.
At the last hairpin turn, where the summit meadow is already visible, you now enter the toll road that shortly leads you to the parking lot and the hut. You can reward the ascent with the climb of the "Meyringwarte" at the summit (1,037 m), as the 360° panorama covers half of Lower Austria in good weather.
Hocheck – Mittagskogel – Eberbach – Weissenbach
From the hut, turn east initially on a wide, rocky path descending through bizarre beech forest along the yellow and red markings (No. 448). A flat section along the meadow edge offers beautiful panoramic views once again. You soon reach a saddle just north of the ridge, where the path to Altenmarkt branches off to the left. However, continue straight ahead towards Mittagskogel (yellow and red markings 448), which you pass south of a meadow. Shortly after this meadow, you reach the junction to Weissenbach and Eberbach in a saddle.
The path continuing straight ahead (yellow marking) leads further to Tasshof.
Follow the sign "Eberbach, Weissenbach" and the red marking No. 448 to the right, to descend on a wide forest path through mixed forest to a small clearing at 727 m (Prinzwiese). Here turn left and continue to descend steeper and partially stony in a ravine, following the red marking. Continue down a forest road until you meet a forest road. Cross this and continue to follow path No. 448, partly steeper downhill in the ravine, until you reach another forest road. Follow this downhill until shortly after a right bend, then turn left onto a path and continue downhill following path 448 with red marking. Soon you reach meadows and orchards and the first houses of Eberbach. Stay on the marked path and pass the town northwards until the path leads to the right down to the road. Follow this road downhill for 2 km (path 448) past some homesteads to the B 18, Hainfeld federal road. Here you meet the Triestingtal cycle path No. 42, which you follow downhill for 1.4 km, first through the valley narrowing of the Tormauer, then over a wooden bridge back to the starting point.
