Mountain hikes Theme path "Virgen crossroads"

Virgen in Osttirol /
Difficulty ratings: easy
Route length: 3.1 km
Duration: 1:00 h

Theme path "Virgen crossroads"

Tour information

  • Requirement: easy
  • Length: 3.1 km
  • Duration: 1:00 h
  • Elevation uphill:90 hm
  • Elevation downhill:90 hm
Highest point 1,300 m

Starting point

Tourist information Virgen

Finishing point

Maria Schnee pilgrimage church
  • Fitness level 1 / 6
  • Technique 1 / 6

Features

  • Suitable for families
  • suitable for pushchairs

Best time of year

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Description

At the western end of Virgen there there you can find a recently redesigned crossroads to the "Maria Schnee" pilgrimage church.  Local artists have worked together to create 15 expressive stations.  
The crossroads comprises 14 individual stations, supplemented by a "resurrection", a 15th station right before the pilgrimage church. By using ophite and bronze, source materials have been applied which bring together elegance and monumentality. The sculptures can also be interpreted as rocks in the breakwater. Individual scenes of Ways of the Cross are shown in bronze reliefs, which have been installed directly in green serpentine.  The challenge with the reliefs lay in finding the right path between the traditional and the contemporary. Meditation texts on the serpentine rectangles – put together by former bishop Reinhold Stecher – invite pilgrims to pause for thought.

Getting here

  • Arrival by public transport

    Virgen Kirche

  • Parking

    Parkgarage Virgen

  • Contact

    Themenweg "Kreuzweg Virgen"

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