Details for: Mank Pilgrimage Path
Brief description
The pilgrimage path leads mainly on field paths from the center of the city of St. Pölten to Mank. At first, you are on the Pilachtal pilgrimage path and then partly continue on Roman roads towards Mank. Along many sections of the path, you can see the Ötscher and the impressive mountain panorama of the Alpine foothills. The path passes chapels inviting meditative pauses.
Description
A pilgrimage to Mank
Today's plague comes out of the exhaust pipe. But if you go on a pilgrimage to Mank on foot, you are not spreading the plague, even though you are on a medieval pilgrimage against it. Pastors advised the people of St. Pöltern in times of plague to make a pilgrimage to "Mank am grünen Anger" to beg for help. This gave rise to an old connection between St. Pölten and Mank, which is also expressed elsewhere today: in the "Sweet Corner", a confectionery here and there. The 43.5-metre-high church tower of Mank with its unconventional onion dome can be seen from afar. Construction of the three-nave hall church began around 1400. The largest bell is called Herz Jesu and weighs 1,675 kilos.
Starting point of the tour
Cathedral Square St. Pölten
Destination point of the tour
Mank
Route description Mank Pilgrimage Path
Cathedral St. Pölten - Town Hall - Hafinger Way - Teufelhof - Schwadorf - Matzersdorf to the Pielach - Ebersdorf - Feilendorf - Saudorf - St. Margarethen - Unterradl - Schlatzendorf - Scharagraben - Kälberhart - Loipersdorf (stone Snake Cross, donated by St. Pölten) - Mank.
The route follows marking 455 up to the Farthof in the Pielach valley and partially runs on the Roman road (651) from St. Margarethen to Mank.
Directions
To St. Pölten by Westbahn or via the A1.
Parking
Park & Ride (behind the station)
Westbahn, ÖBB
Author's tip
Enjoy the return trip to St. Pölten with the narrow-gauge railway "Krump'n" – better known as "the most beautiful track through the Alpine foothills".
