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Mühlviertel

Hofkirchen im Mühlkreis

Stone Labyrinth Hofkirchen – View of Hofkirchen loop from Hofkirchen im Mühlkreis

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Austria

Upper Austria

Mühlviertel

Hofkirchen im Mühlkreis

Stone Labyrinth Hofkirchen – View of Hofkirchen loop from Hofkirchen im Mühlkreis

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Stone Labyrinth Hofkirchen – View of Hofkirchen loop from Hofkirchen im Mühlkreis

02:37

9.40km

170m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: May 16, 2026

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396 m

Pillory in Hofkirchen im Mühlkreis

Highlight • Monument

The pillory in front of the town hall consists of an obelisk-like stone pillar with a profiled cornice, a spherical cap and a renewed metal flag. The pillory erected around 1680 is marked with the year 1335, the wrong year of the market survey
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_denkmalgesch%C3%BCtzten_Objecte_in_Hofkirchen_im_M%C3%BChlkreis

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3.97 km

Stone Labyrinth Hofkirchen

Highlight • Structure

The second labyrinth is near the "Emmerstorfer Bründl". The execution was carried out as a reduced stone labyrinth in cooperation with the entire population through the campaign "Hofkirchen ist steinreich", in the context of which 120 tons of field stones were gradually loaded from fields and forest edges onto tractors in painstaking detail work, brought to the construction site and set into the labyrinth by hand will.
Source: labyrinthe-hofkirchen.at

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4.27 km

Emmerstorfer Bründl (Eye Spring)

Highlight • Religious Site

The Bründl Chapel in the Emmerstorf Wood was built in 1871 on the site of a wayside cross that had stood there for over 100 years. The much older sanctuary is the "Holy Spring," which was first mentioned in 1495. Next to the small church, the spring is enclosed in a small, brick-lined grotto. According to tradition, the Emmerstorf Spring is a spring for healing the eyes; people wash their eyes with it. However, as the poet Herbert Emmerstorfer explained, this eye-washing may not be about actual eyesight, but rather about opening one's eyes to the truly important things in life. The spring lies on the path to the Stone Labyrinth of Inner Contemplation.

Source: gastroszene.at/ausflugstipps/details/135-emmerstorfer-bruendl.html

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5.01 km