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Official city hiking trail 8
City hiking trail 8: Pfenningberg
The wild east: forest, Danube views and the industrial panorama.
From Plesching the trail climbs into the wooded Pfenningberg and follows the ridge towards Steyregg. Between the trees, views open up that exist only here: the Danube and the port below, the voestalpine works opposite. Not a flattering view of Linz, but the honest one.
Getting there: S3 to Steyregg Bahnhof, 42 m to the trailhead. Way back from Plesching Seeweg (360), 25 m.
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 388 m of climbing and 388 m of descent, between 252 and 612 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 after quiet who still wants to understand the city: the calmest trail of the series also shows most clearly what Linz lives on.
The loneliest trail of the series: little in the way of stops or company. Start and finish lie apart; one end connects to the S-Bahn in Steyregg, the other to the bus in Plesching.
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: 100% green along the built-up stretches · 95% quiet · 388 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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The 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 8?
About 9.4 km on the signposted route, with roughly 388 m of climbing. We calculate about 3:00 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?
S3 to Steyregg Bahnhof, 42 m to the trailhead. The way back runs from Plesching Seeweg (360).
Is this the official route?
Yes. The line follows the signposted city hiking trail 8 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?
Steyregg. 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.