Donaufelsenläfe – Donaufelsengarten (Danube Rock Garden) near Gutenstein

This tour doesn't get its name by chance. Countless rocks await you along its almost eight and a half kilometers, from which you can let your gaze wander over the Danube. If you want to enjoy every single view to the fullest, you should plan more time - around four hours instead of the three hours stated here - for the tour.

You start your tour at the Hofstättle parking lot. The path takes you east through a sparse mixed beech forest to the first viewing point, the Teufelsloch. After a long interplay between dreamy forest paths, narrow grass paths through arable land and gravel paths, sooner or later you will come across the turnoff to Rabenfelsen. If you are sure-footed and have a head for heights, you can climb to its viewing point via a short, climbing-like detour. Because the rock is not without danger, you should really only attempt it under the conditions mentioned above. If you don't dare to do that, that's not a bad thing. There are plenty of other rocks waiting, the viewing points of which are less exposed but at least as beautiful.

Either way, after the Rabenfelsen junction, you follow a narrow path to the south. If you look closely, you can get another nice view of the Raven Rock you just passed from here. Then you follow serpentines that soon turn into narrow paths and gravel paths that sooner or later lead into forests. You reach the Burghalde, from whose vantage point you can enjoy a magnificent view of the Gutenstein Castle and the Danube. You have to venture over one last crest - from there it's all downhill. After a while you have one last opportunity to admire the landscape and Gutenstein Castle on the Kreuzfelsen. Then you continue hiking downhill and after a short time you reach the starting point of the hike.