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Official city hiking trail 2
City hiking trail 2: Pöstlingberg
The classic: from the main square up to the pilgrimage basilica.
The best-known trail of the series: across the Danube into Urfahr, then up the hill in switchbacks until the pilgrimage basilica stands above the city. At the top wait the wide view over Linz, the Grottenbahn grotto railway and the Pöstlingberg railway, one of Europe’s steepest adhesion lines, which can take the descent off your legs.
Getting there: 2, 1, 4 to Linz/Donau Hauptplatz, 37 m to the trailhead. Loop trail: you finish where you started.
The official route and its data
The coloured line is the official, signposted route of the series, as mapped in OpenStreetMap. Toggle a data layer, or tap anywhere on the map to see trees, noise, heat and travel times for that exact spot.
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About 268 m of climbing and 267 m of descent, between 254 and 516 m above sea level. Sampled every 25 m from open elevation data; walking time uses the standard hiking formula (4 km/h plus 300 m of climb per hour).
For anyone weighing up hillside living: the Urfahr slopes offer views and green, but every daily errand involves a climb. This trail lets you feel both.
Around 270 metres of climbing in one go, and around the basilica and the grotto railway weekends get busy. The quieter stretches are on the flanks.
What changes along the way
Every 200 metres of the trail, sampled against wohnwahn’s data. The curves run from the start (left) to the finish (right). In short: 80% green along the built-up stretches · along open water · 75% quiet · 268 m of climbing.
Values are 0 to 100 per 250 m residential cell. Forest and fields have no cells, so the profile honestly pauses there; curves only appear once they cover at least half the trail. Source: heat model from surface sealing, environmental noise map, green-space proximity, footfall and own transit routing.
What’s along the way
Counted within about 140 metres of the route, from our data.
Living along this trail
Real listings within about 500 metres of the route: local recreation from your own front door.
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140 m from the routeUrfahrCentral and modern 2-room apartment with fitted kitchen and loggia on the 6th floor in Urfahr for sale!€ 229,000 · 2 rm · 63 m²The areas along this trail
The full profile of each area in the atlas: trees, quiet, prices, travel times.
About this trail
How long is city hiking trail 2?
About 7.6 km on the signposted route, with roughly 268 m of climbing. We calculate about 2:20 h of walking using the standard hiking formula (4 km/h plus 300 m of climb per hour): no official time is published.
How do I get to the trailhead by public transport?
2, 1, 4 to Linz/Donau Hauptplatz, 37 m to the trailhead. The trail is a loop, so you finish where you started.
Is this the official route?
Yes. The line follows the signposted city hiking trail 2 of the City of Linz. The city publishes no open route dataset, so we use the OpenStreetMap mapping of the series (ODbL), walked through in one go, and add our own data on top.
Which areas does it cross?
Innere Stadt, Urfahr, Pöstlingberg, Puchenau. Each links to its full profile in the neighbourhood atlas.
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Route: signposted Linz city trail series as mapped in OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), walked through including marked spurs. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap, © CARTO. Elevation: Austria terrain data © offene Daten Österreichs – Digitales Geländemodell (DGM) Österreich; walking time calculated (standard hiking formula), not an official figure. Data profile: heat model from surface sealing, environmental noise map (BMK), green-space proximity, footfall and own transit routing on the Linz AG Linien and ÖBB timetables. Data as of 2026-08-27.