Schwechat Park Pond – Hennersdorf Parish Church loop from Schwechat

Schwechat Park Pond – Hennersdorf Parish Church loop from Schwechat

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Schwechat Park Pond – Hennersdorf Parish Church loop from Schwechat

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47.8km

140m

Gravel riding

Moderate gravel ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: September 23, 2026

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953 m

Schwechat Riverside Cycle Path

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1.43 km

Schwechat Park Pond

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Looks nice on the photos, in real life very cloudy water, at least in August

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15.0 km

The Hennersdorf parish church of St. Andrew is one of the oldest churches in Lower Austria. The Hennersdorf parish church reflects three different art-historically interesting epochs (Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque). Despite the lack of documents, the time of construction can be put pretty much exactly around 1150 on the basis of art-historical investigations. The building age of the church (there are no written documents) can be dated fairly accurately due to the Romanesque architectural type. The occurrence of the type of the choir tower church (hall-shaped room, choir square with tower above it), or east tower church, to which the Hennersdorfer church also belongs, can be fixed precisely in time in several places in Lower Austria: From this, a construction time around 1150 can be assumed as fairly certain. The church is said to have been first mentioned in a document in 1270, but a document has not yet been found and therefore this claim cannot be verified. The Hennersdorf church is first mentioned in a document dated October 5, 1306: Albrecht von Pollheim and his wife Adelheid transferred the patronage of the Hoenesdorf church to Master Berthold, land clerk in Austria, and his wife Margareth, among others. This is the oldest written record of church history. Although the church existed from about 1150, there was no parish of its own. An exact date of the priest survey is not known; In any case, Hennersdorf is already noted in the Passau beneficence register in 1429 as a princely feudal parish, so it was first mentioned as a parish on this date. Since the 16th century, Hennersdorf has belonged almost entirely to the Leopoldsdorf rulers. Under Marx Beck, owner of the castle in Leopoldsdorf, the Leopoldsdorf castle chapel was raised to the status of a parish church in 1527; In 1528 the old Hennersdorf parish was merged with the Leopoldsdorf parish, which from 1646 no longer had a pastor. Hennersdorf was subsequently looked after alternately by the parishes of Oberlaa and Vösendorf. In 1529 the Turks invaded; the parsonage was totally destroyed. The church finally became an independent parish again in 1733 under the Leopoldsdorfer Schlossherrin Maria Theresia Rosalia Gräfin von Windischgrätz. From this point in time one can list 15 pastors from Hennersdorf in a complete series up to the present day.

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Confluence of the Triesting and the Schwechat rivers

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The so-called imperial indulgences in Achau, located at the confluence of the Schwechat, Triesting and Mödlingbach rivers, date from the time of Emperor Karl VI. and Empress Maria Theresa. The weir system was rebuilt between 1998 and 2002 for flood protection. The client was the Republic of Austria.

The course of the many rivers and streams in this "water-rich" part of the Vienna Basin is quite complicated: Above is the Laxenburg Palace Park, the Laxenburg Canal, which branches off from the Triesting in Münchendorf, and from the Heidbach, which branches off the Schwechat in the Baden area - also called Badner Mühlbach - flows through. The Laxenburg canal culverts the Schwechat south-east of the palace gardens. In Achau, the Krottenbach, the Mödlingbach and the outflow from the pond in the Laxenburg Palace Park, the Lobenbach, first come together. The Schwechat - also called "Aubach" here - and the Triesting follow immediately afterwards. The Schwechat - the new name for all flowing waters - in turn has two rivers, the Mitterbach - the name for the Schwechat below the imperial indulgences to Schwechat - and the original Schwechat, i.e. the Schwechat-Werksbach. Only in Schwechat itself, at the confluence of the Liesingbach, do these waters unite again to form the Schwechat. (from a writing by SC Maria Lanzendorf)

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21.1 km

Rest Area on the Ziegelbarone Cycle Route

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Nice rest area with information board on the brick barons' cycle path next to Schwechat. The brick barons' cycle path is 26 kilometers long and offers interesting insights into the history of the brick industry, which was of great importance in the region.

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Triestingau Cycle Path Near Münchendorf

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The so-called Triestingau cycle path stretches 26 km between Schönau an der Triesting and Himberg.
At the end of the 18th century, the towns along the Triesting experienced their heyday.
Today, cyclists can happily drift along the river on level terrain, immerse themselves in quiet meadows or branch off into the wine taverns along the cycle path.
With its further connections along the Schwechat to Vienna on the Danube Island to the Danube Cycle Path and the Thermen Cycle Path along the Neustadt Canal to the south, the Triestingau Cycle Path forms the most important north-south cycle route in south-eastern Lower Austria

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27.8 km