Sermon chair in Gloxwald

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View from the Predigtstuhl in Gloxwald to the Danube, Sarmingstein and the Schlosskogel

The Predigtstuhl in Gloxwald is a natural monument in the village of Gloxwald in the market town of Waldhausen im Strudengau in the Perg district right on the border with Sarmingstein in the market town of St. Nikola an der Donau .

description

It is a natural rock pulpit in Weinsberger granite about 290 meters above the Danube at 520  m above sea level. A. about one kilometer southwest of the village of Gloxwald. The entry in the nature protection book of the Upper Austrian provincial government took place in August 1983. The Danube flows through crystalline rock in the Strudengau, which has come to the surface in many places. The Predigtstuhl is worthy of protection due to the special character it gives to the landscape.

tourism

The Predigtstuhl is a lookout point with a view of the Danube - breakthrough valley Strudengau and is located on the municipal, district and cross-federal border hiking trail N13 with starting points in Sarmingstein in the market town of St. Nikola an der Donau in the district of Perg in Upper Austria and in the market town of Nöchling in the district Melk in Lower Austria . Since 2010, a stage of the Donausteig has led from Sarmingstein past the Predigtstuhl to Gloxwald and on to Waldhausen im Strudengau.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Notices of Upper Austria. State government of August 12, 1983 and June 23, 1986.

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 56.3 "  N , 14 ° 56 ′ 55.5"  E