Discover Pierbach: Hiking, Culture and Leisure

Pierbach combines varied trails, regional history and a wide range of leisure activities. Anyone looking for a holiday apartment in Pierbach will find many different reasons to visit: the Johannesweg trail passes through the village, four marked hiking trails lead through the surrounding area, and the Häferl Museum and parish church offer special cultural attractions for interested visitors.

Leisure between exercise and play

Pierbach Leisure Park is freely accessible all year round and offers several ways to spend an active day. The grounds include a pump track, a skate park, and a climbing and balancing facility. The multi-purpose court provides space for football, basketball and volleyball. This allows visitors to plan their stay according to their interests: while some travellers explore the trails and landscape, others can spend time taking part in sports activities at the leisure park.

This variety is also a helpful factor when choosing accommodation. If members of a travel group have different ideas about how to spend a holiday day, you can consider Pierbach as a base for a combination of culture, exercise and leisure, without focusing the entire stay on just one activity.

Häferl Museum and Parish Church

The Pierbach Häferl Museum displays rarities among cups as well as coffee and tea services. One focus is on porcelain manufacturers such as Meissen, Wiener Keramik and Gmundner Keramik. The museum also covers the production of a cup and the history of how cups came into being. These themes make a visit to the museum a discovery of everyday culture, craftsmanship and ceramics.

The Pierbach parish church is a three-nave staggered church with Romanesque and Gothic stylistic elements, a Gothic chancel and late Gothic side aisles. The church contains wall paintings from the 16th century. It is also located along the Mühlviertel Gothic Road. Anyone interested in church art and historic architectural styles can include this site as a dedicated cultural highlight in their travel plans.

Hiking on the Johannesweg and to Ruttenstein

The recommended starting point for the pilgrimage along the Johannesweg trail is in the village of Pierbach. The trail is signposted throughout and marked in a clockwise direction. The first stop is the Johannes Fountain with the Angels’ Chapel at the farm of the Irxenmayr family; this is a place of power on the Johannesweg trail.

For shorter or differently themed tours, Pierbach offers four marked hiking trails. The ZweiFlüsseWeg follows the picturesque course of the Kleine Naarn river for approximately 3 kilometres. The M2 Pierbach Tour leads from Pierbach through Mühlviertel Nature Park. The Ruttensteinweg leads towards the Ruttenstein castle ruins and adds a historically themed hiking destination to the selection.

Ruttenstein Castle was mentioned as early as 1160 as “castrum Rotenstein” in connection with Bamberg possessions. The Ruttenstein castle ruins are situated at an elevation of 758 metres on a wooded hilltop between the valleys of the Große Naarn and Kleine Naarn rivers. This combination of landscape and history gives the surrounding area a distinctive destination for anyone who would like to discover historic sites while hiking.

More places for your search

If you would like to compare other destinations in addition to Pierbach, you can continue your search here: Sandl, Hirschbach Im Mühlkreis, Waldburg, Gutau, Leopoldschlag, Unterweitersdorf, Schönau Im Mühlkreis and Tragwein.

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