Herzsteinweg - St. Oswald

From the church square, the path leads north, turns right shortly before the Wackelstein until it reaches the Yspertal-Dorfstetten intersection. There you walk about 50 m towards Dorfstetten and then right to the Hauptmann-Mayer Ruhe (secured viewpoint). From there you hike through a young forest again northward along a flat forest path and reach a meadow (from here the path leads jointly with the Herzsteinweg-Yspertal (No. 34) to Herzstein). After 100 m along the forest edge path, you reach the “Stone Grain Man” (a pyramid-like stone in the middle of a field, which according to legend is a petrified grain man, because the farmer cursed the meager harvest. It is also considered the so-called calendar stone – the oldest sundial in the Ysper-Weitental). Above the Pireitsteiner farmhouse, a trail branches off right to the “Death's Head Dragon Stone” (death’s head with empty eye sockets looking directly north, where according to Germanic belief the gods' castle and the realm of the dead are located) and Weißberg with summit cross and summit book (782 m). Back at Pireitsteiner, you hike along the forest to the Windhager house, then right up to the “Herzstein” (at Hinterberg 838 m). The Herzstein represents a female double cult site and is a crawl-through stone. There the shared path also splits and you continue straight to the federal road No. 11, then left and at the Mosgöller house right 50 m into the Undeutsch farm road. Here the hike turns left into the Süß forest road. Along the forest road are numerous carved wooden figures. At Süßenhof left, along the federal road to the intersection towards St. Oswald, after 300 m right into the forest path, left at the farm road and before the intersection with the federal road right along the forest path to the water reservoir (large heart station for resting and enjoying the view towards St. Oswald and the Alpine foothills). Then to the “Wackelstein”, back to St. Oswald. Additional hiking option from the reservoir further along the forest road up to Stockberg (761 m, where there is a “blood bowl”).

Access from the West Autobahn A1 via Ybbs on the Danube either via B 36 through Yspertal to St. Oswald or via Ybbs along the Danube west near Ysperdorf, towards Yspertal via Fell to St. Oswald.

Parking in front of the primary school or the depot is free. E-charging station at the "Leithenweg" parking lot free to use.

Municipality of St. Oswald
3684 St. Oswald, Untere Hauptstraße 3
(T) +43 7415 7291
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Tourism Association Ysper-Weitental
3683 Yspertal, Hauptstraße 9
(T) +43 7415 6767-25
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Waldviertel Tourism
3910 Zwettl, Sparkassenplatz 1/2/2
(T) +43 2822 54109
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