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The Polansteig (from polana , Slav. Level) was an important trade and traffic route in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel .

The Polansteig, first mentioned in 1139, was the main connection between Horn , Zwettl and Freistadt in the Middle Ages .

In Neupölla , when it met the Beheimsteig coming from Kamp , it led through Thaures, Dietreichs , and crossed the Kamp near the Fürnkranzmühle, which is now flooded by the Ottenstein reservoir , and where Reinprechtsbruck used to be. After crossing the Kamp, the Polansteig ran along the Edelhof - Rudmanns road to Zwettl and on via Jahrings , Kleinmeinharts , Groß Gerungs , Liebenau , Weitersfelden and St. Oswald to Freistadt . An older variant of the Polansteig began at the Gars castle of Margrave Leopold II in Gars am Kamp and ran via St. Leonhard to Altpölla .

Further paths branched off on both sides of the Polansteig. At Zwettl, the Beheimsteig trail network continued to the north and the Griessteig ran from the Danube into the Polansteig.

The Polansteig corresponds roughly to today's Böhmerwald Straße (B 38) from Horn to Freistadt.

literature

  • Peter Csendes : The streets of Lower Austria in the early and high Middle Ages , phil. Diss., Vienna, 1969
  • Eva Bittermann: Fortified churches in the Waldviertel , diploma thesis of the Univ. Vienna, Vienna, 2012