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Sina Warte Observation Tower – Helenental Trail loop from Ruine Rauhenstein

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Sina Warte Observation Tower – Helenental Trail loop from Ruine Rauhenstein

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4.7

(71)

403

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Sina Warte Observation Tower – Helenental Trail loop from Ruine Rauhenstein

05:34

16.6km

640m

Hiking

Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 7, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment that may be dangerous

A part of this route comprises technical, difficult, or hazardous terrain. Specialist equipment and prior experience may be required.

After 6.93 km for 130 m

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168 m

Albrechts Bridge

Highlight • Bridge

📷 October 29th, 2017 - The Albrechtsbrücke in Baden is a remarkable wood-metal footbridge, on one side of the Schwechat are the parking lots - on the other side the Wegerl begins in the Helenental. 😊👍👍👍

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2.06 km

The Schwechat River in the Vienna Woods

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2.90 km

Anton's Grotto

Highlight • Cave

The network of promenades dates back to Archduke Anton (1779–1835), who had it built in the years up to 1829. The highlight was the Antonsgrotte, which stands roughly opposite the …

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3.83 km

Kalkgraben Trail

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

7.09 km

Brennersteig (Secured Trail)

Highlight (Segment) • Climb

The Brennersteig is a secured rock passage and offers hikers and trekkers alpine surroundings in the Vienna Woods. Furthermore, two official mountain bike routes lead to the Iron Gate.

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7.75 km

Sina Warte Observation Tower

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The Hohe Lindkogel - better known to many as the Iron Gate - Many hikers prefer the climbs from the Helenental, although this is where you have to overcome the …

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7.77 km

Eisernes Tor – Hoher Lindkogel

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The Hohe Lindkogel, also called Eisernes Tor or Kalter Berg, is an 834 m high excursion mountain in the southern Wienerwald and west of Baden bei Wien, in the municipal area of Alland and Bad Vöslau.

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15.3 km

Helenental Trail

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Cozy Wegerl through the Helenental!

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16.6 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

8.90 km

6.01 km

1.69 km

Surfaces

7.65 km

6.40 km

1.24 km

959 m

220 m

138 m

Elevation

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Weather

Sunday 16 August

26°C

16°C

97 %

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Comments

March 4, 2024,Beethovenweg-Hoher Lindkogel-Antonsgrotte Runde🥾

A wonderful “spring day”🥰. Many slopes are full of snowdrops and wild garlic🤩👌.
The “Hohe Lindkogel” (834 m) was once called “Kalter Berg”, the map designation Inner Kaltenberger Forst and a cadastral community of the same name are reminders of this. The highest elevation was also called “Albrechtshöhe” in the 19th century. As the son of Archduke Karl, Archduke Albrecht …

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October 2, 2021,Hoher Lindkogel "Eisernes Tor" 02.10.2021 16:56

From the Augustinerhütte over the stony path on the Hohen Lindkogel to the Iron Gate. They had a delicious lunch there, highly recommended. 😋
We went down over the Kalkgraben to the Antonsgrotte and on the way in the Helenental back to the 🚗

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January 7, 2023,Eisernes Tor - Hoher Lindkogel

The beautiful weather was used today to finally climb the high Lindkogel. We parked at the cholera acapella and we went the first stretch on the Wegerl in the Helenental. As soon as it went uphill, part of the way wasn't that special - quite a few felled trees and the paths were extremely muddy and "extended" and therefore slippery. …

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October 12, 2025,Hoher Lindkogel vom Helenental

Iron Gate Mountain Shelter

Description

The Hohe Lindkogel – better known to many as the "Iron Gate" (or also called the Cold Mountain) – is one of the most visited mountains in the Vienna Woods, in every season. The Austrian Alpine Club (ÖTK) mountain shelter with its Sina lookout tower awaits you here.

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December 13, 2022,Rundweg Cholerakapelle - Hoher Lindkogel -Cholerakapelle

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Sina Warte Observation Tower – Helenental Trail loop from Ruine Rauhenstein

Albrechts Bridge

The Schwechat River in the Vienna Woods

Anton's Grotto

Kalkgraben Trail

Brennersteig (Secured Trail)

Sina Warte Observation Tower

Eisernes Tor – Hoher Lindkogel

Helenental Trail

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