Hiking tour Starting from Pöstlingberg/Linz
On our first stage of the Mariazell Trail, an interesting city crossing with many cultural and religious highlights awaits us.
On our first stage of the Mariazell Trail, an interesting city crossing with many cultural and religious highlights awaits us.
The starting point for the first stage of the Mariazell Pilgrimage Trail is the beautiful pilgrimage church, the "Basilica of the Seven Sorrows of Mary", on the Pöstlingberg above Linz. From up here, you can look down on the Danube and the city of Linz and enjoy a wonderful view of the surrounding countryside. Via the Way of the Cross, which begins south of the church (at the Pöstlingberg Schlössl), we walk down to the Petrinum, the episcopal private grammar school of the Diocese of Linz, and then reach the main road. We follow this across 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 St. Mary's Cathedral, built in 1862 in the heart of the city, is particularly worthwhile. The cathedral is the largest church in Austria, although not the tallest. At 134.8 meters, its tower is only around two meters lower than that of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. 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, things finally become a little more rural as we hike through the small village of Ölkam and can already see the towers of the Augustinian monastery of St. Florian in the distance. St. Florian Abbey is one of the largest and most famous baroque monasteries in Upper Austria. It is home to a monastery library, various art collections (e.g. the Gothic panel paintings of the Sebastian Altar by Albrecht Altdorfer - Danube School), Marble Hall & Imperial Room.
The backpack should really only contain the bare essentials on a pilgrimage route! A GPS device is helpful for orientation.
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.
You can park the car below the Pöstlingberg church, or if you want to arrive by Pöstlingbergbahn, near the main square.
Arrival from Salzburg and Vienna: Westautobahn A1, exit Linz/Zentrum
Arrival from Prague, Freistadt: Mühlkreisautobahn A7, exit Linz/Hafenstraße
Arrival from Regensburg, Passau: Innkreisautobahn A8 to A1, exit Linz/Zentrum or toll-free along the Danube on B 127.
You can reach Linz by train or bus, then from the main square take the Pöstlingbergbahn to the Pöstlingberg.
It is possible to stay overnight at Stift St. Florian.
Leider können wir Ihnen zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt keine Wetterdaten für den Ort anzeigen.
Mostviertel Tourismus GmbH
Töpper schloss Neubruck, Neubruck 2/10, 3283 Scheibbs
T +43/7482/20 444
info@mostviertel.at , www.mostviertel.at
TVB Mariazeller Land
Main Square 13, 8630 Mariazell
Tel.: +43 (0)3882/23 66
Upper Austria Tourism Information
Freistädter Straße 119, 4041 Linz
info@oberoesterreich.at
www.wandern.at
Useful maps:
ÖK 4319 Linz, ÖK 4320 Perg, ÖK 4326 Steyr,
ÖK 4202 Ternberg, ÖK 4203 Waidhofen,
ÖK 4203 Ybbsitz, ÖK 4204 Lunz, ÖK 4210 Mariazell
All at scale 1:50,000 (also available in enlargement 1:25,000)
F&B hiking maps 261 (1:50,000), 051 (1:50,000),
052 (1:50,000), 5031 (1:35,000)
Kompass 22 (Mariazell, Ötscher, Erlauftal, 1:25,000),
Kompass 212 (Hochschwab, Mariazell, Eisenwurzen, 1:50,000),
Kompass 202 (Around Linz, Mühlviertel, Wels, Steyr, 1:50,000)
Important phone numbers:
Alpine emergency call: 140, International emergency call: 112
Recommended literature:
Pilgrimage routes to Mariazell – West + South volume, www.styriabooks.at
Hiking experience Mariazeller Land and Ötscher, www.kral-verlag.at
Pilgrimage routes, www.kral-verlag.at
Letzte Änderung: 3 Aug 2026
