Pilgrim walks in Oftering

The stage runs northwards along the main route of the Benedikt Pilgrimage Path in Upper Austria and then turns in Thurnharting towards Traun onto the Pilgerrundweg Traunviertel.

The „Via Rosina“ is a themed trail about the secret Protestant Rosina Steinauer. The start is in Mitterbach am Erlaufsee and it leads into the Scharten, connecting to the „Trail of the Book“.

The stage leads through the flat hilly land from Traun via Pasching to Thurnharting and then heads south through several small villages to Marchtrenk.

The stage leads through the field landscape of Traun, Pasching, Thening (tolerance community) and further to the Freiling estate, to the Predigtstuhl and into Scharten.

From the Danube and the Cistercian Wilhering Monastery with its impressive Rococo church, the route goes through the Kürnberger Forest into the gently hilly landscape west of the state capital Linz. The pilgrimage path passes through typical villages such as Oftering and Holzhausen to Marchtrenk.

The next stage of the Benedikt Pilgrimage Path now leads away from the riverside landscape of the Traun through the flat hilly landscape up to the Danube. Here, agricultural areas alternate with individual still rurally shaped villages on the outskirts of the vibrant economic region of Linz and Wels. The last stretch goes through the Kürnberger Forest, and we reach the Wilhering Monastery, picturesquely located on the bank of the Danube at the stage destination.