Bike route Amstetten-Böhlerwerk-Ertl-St. Peter-Amstetten

Partial km/Total km . . . . Description

0.0/0.0 On the south side of Amstetten station, we cross the street and the Mühlbach stream. Now we are on the Ybbstal cycle path.

2.8/2.8 We start heading west = upstream along the stream and cycle upstream the Ybbs and over the Url to Greinsfurth.

4.2/7.0 We stay on the Ybbstal cycle path, turn left in Greinsfurth and thus right of the Ybbs to the houses in Loh, where we turn right into the forest heath. Before the railway crossing turn left. We take the path alongside the railway and reach the cyclist bridge over the Ybbs.

3.5/10.5 On the Ybbstal cycle path through Hausmening. A short climb before leaving the locality.

3.3/13.8 At the top, sharp right between farmhouses and on an agricultural path to detached chicken halls. Sharp left to the street reached at the last houses of Wallmersdorf. On the street turn right to reach Kröllendorf.

4.3/18.1 Straight ahead, slightly downhill, cross the railway and at the roundabout take the first exit, over the Ybbs to the B 121. Do not cross the street, but briefly turn left on the sidewalk and into a settlement (still on the Ybbstal cycle path). Then we reach Kematen next to the B 121. Briefly on the main road, then the Ybbs is crossed. Shortly after the bridge turn left to the station.

1.5/19.6 Over the railway, then immediately turn right. Follow the signs and along the railway to a railway crossing just before Gleiß monastery (cemetery Gleiss on the left).

5.1/24.7 Leave the Ybbstal cycle path to the right in Gleiß, briefly turn left on the B 121 by the watchmaker and after 200 m before the monastery turn right downhill to the Ybbs bridge and cross the Ybbs. Right after the bridge take the street left (signpost Oismühle). Slightly hilly (a short, steep hill at Oismühle) ride to Böhlerwerk. After a short climb we reach the L 88.

3.3/28.0 We leave Böhlerwerk to the right (signpost Seitenstetten) and ride up to the cemetery. Then a short descent, then gently climbing to the intersection at the Wegerkapelle chapel.

5.2/33.2 Here we leave the ascending L 88 to the left and cycle on the signposted Birnenblick bike loop along the Nellingbach stream. At the Ortsmühle settlement take the right street, which climbs up to the highest point of our route, the Großau transition.

3.0/36.2 Still on the Birnenblick bike route: half a kilometer fast downhill, then right on the L 86 to Ertl.

8.4/44.6 And continue on the Birnenblick bike route towards St. Peter in der Au. About 1 km before St. Peter, we leave the L 86 to the right (= continue Birnenblick bike route, signpost to St. Michael am Bruckbach).

2.2/46.8 Here we go 600 m towards St. Michael, then left (still on the signposted bike path) along the Url to the B 122 in St. Peter in der Au.

3.2/50.0 Cross the B 122 slightly left and continue following the Birnenblick bike route to the St. Peter in der Au station.

4.1/54.1 Along the railway (under the road bridge), past the airfield to the next railway underpass, through underneath and slightly uphill to Bierbaumdorf.

2.2/56.3 Now right and continue to Krenstetten.

3.9/60.2 We take the old federal road (marked = Herz-Mostviertel bike route) to the roundabout before Aschbach. There we leave the marked bike path and turn right. Before the railway underpass turn left to Aschbach station.

4.6/64.8 Cross a priority road near the scout center. To a house left of the railway, at this house sharply turn right, go under the railway, immediately sharply left and now right of the railway to a bridge over the Url. Immediately after, go under the railway and now left of the railway to Mauer.

3.6/68.4 At the second roundabout in Mauer we cross the Mostbaron bike route. We continue straight ahead to Waldheim (intersection and railway underpass), here still 300 m left of the railway on the street, then left-right turn and continue alongside the railway, then turn left to Pilsing.

4.3/72.7 Further to Höf, pass under the federal road and railway. After the railway turn sharply left, past the dog training area, immediately after turn left again (now we are back on the Ybbstal cycle path, which we already know from the exit from Amstetten and follow this to the starting point.