Pyhra Loitzenberger Kirchenweg (feel good Route 3)

Normal hiking equipment

From our starting point at the elementary school, we start slightly downhill, passing the school and parish church to the lower main street. There we keep left to turn right at the next opportunity into Pater-Hartmann Gasse and then continue on Tümmelhofstraße to the sewage treatment plant. After crossing the bridge, we see a beautiful solitary pine on the slope in front of us. We climb up to it over the left forest edge and reach a bench above the pine, where we turn left into the forest. After a few steps, we come to a picture tree, directly next to a forest path that leads us uphill along the slope. Soon we cross a forest road, staying on our inconspicuous, damp forest path that leads us up to a meadow. We hike to the tree and shrub hedge, following it to the end of the hedge. Now we come between two fields over the ridge, past a wayside shrine (near a country house), to the road. We march uphill through the flowery Oberloitzenberg and leave the street at the EVN transformer to the right onto a meadow path. This leads us through a short forest section and then left uphill to Ebersreith. In the center of the village, we turn left at the hydrant and go straight along the street into a meadow path that leads us around a barn into the forest. Following the blue/white marking, we come to a tiny clearing, after which we keep left and go downhill through a spruce plantation. We stay on the path next to the brook. About 250 m after the spruce plantation, we cross the brook in a zigzag shape at the lowest point of the path. We continue downhill, cross a second stream, leave the forest, and come to the farm Berghof. Across the street, we reach Reichenhag and then Fahra, where there is a place to stop at the inn Fahra Stüberl. From Fahra, we go upstream along the riverside path to the sewage treatment plant and further along the fishing educational path to Heuberg. In Heuberg, reaching the street, we head towards the center of Pyhra to turn left into Stegfeld after about 200 m. At the next opportunity, we turn right and the alder path brings us to a paved footpath that leads us past the playground back to our starting point, the elementary school. 

Parking lot at the Pyhra elementary school

Coming from Vienna: West Motorway A1, exit Böheimkirchen (Exit 48), via Furth to Pyhra Coming from the west: West Motorway A1 exit St. Pölten South, right to B20, signs to Pyhra
From the north: exit St. Pölten East, via Egelsee to Pyhra