Experience the Hohe Wand as a treasure island and the nature park as an interactive adventure world! Research booklet and treasure map are available at the nature park shop.
Description
On the new ASAGAN treasure route, visitors themselves become real researchers and experience the adventure of nature up close!
They read in oversized books, draw with real charcoal on tall picture walls, and discover traces of animals. A treasure map guides them into the intricate animal track labyrinth, to the magical dragon place, to the high bat mountain, and into deep marmot caves. Butterfly benches, giant eggs, and forest nests let you slip into animal roles.
Starting point of the tour
Nature Park Center - Parking lot at animal enclosure, Kleine Kanzelstraße 241
Destination point of the tour
Nature Park Center
Route description Nature Park Hohe Wand - ASAGAN treasure route
Together with the heroes from the award-winning ASAGAN book series, families experience an interactive story in the new nature park. Equipped with treasure map and research booklet, they dive into the interactive adventure: Lea and Tschudi, the researcher, search for a treasure on the Hohe Wand. But the treasure chest is empty! Will the fire butterfly Tadäus and the visitors be able to help them? During their treasure hunt, the researchers browse through huge books, collect helpful clues, and eventually become real nature park researchers themselves. At the ASAGAN treasure hunt, knowledge becomes an adventure.
Another attraction awaits visitors in the clearing of the nature park at the edge of the ‘Hoher Wald’. Built from natural materials, two oversized ibexes guard their treasure: the Ibex Cinema! Knowledge is playfully conveyed here: the animated ASAGAN natural film “No Desire, Ibex” shows the Hohe Wand from a new perspective and offers new insights into the history and stories that can be experienced here. The Ibex Cinema itself is record-worthy: with only seven seats, it is probably the smallest cinema in the world. Moreover, the Ibex Cinema is located at an altitude of over 1,000 meters, making it one of the highest cinemas in the world.
Directions
A2 South Motorway – exit Wiener Neustadt West – Weikersdorf – Winzendorf – Gaaden – Stollhof – via the mountain road to the Hohe Wand plateau.
Parking
Nature Park Center: parking lot at the animal enclosure, Kleine Kanzelstraße 241, 2724 Hohe Wand
Admission Nature Park Hohe Wand: Adults € 5.50, Children 3-15 years € 2.50 (as of April 2025)
Take the Südbahn from Vienna or Graz to Wr. Neustadt – change to the regional train toward Puchberg am Schneeberg to Winzendorf – change to the bus to Maiersdorf, Hohe Wand Straße junction – about 500m on the mountain road to the 1st hairpin/parking lot Sonnenuhr. From here, you can hike up the Hohe Wand in about 1 hour via various ascents.
Or change in Wiener Neustadt toward Puchberg am Schneeberg – exit at Grünbach am Schneeberg – via the blue-marked Grafenbergweg, you reach the plateau at Wilhelm Eicherthütte in about 1.5 hours.
Alternatively, take the Gutensteinerbahn (from Wr. Neustadt station) to Oberpiesting or Waldegg and hike onto the Hohe Wand from the back side.
More information at www.oebb.at and www.vor.at
