Perchtoldsdorf

The market town of Perchtoldsdorf in the district of Mödling is located on the southern outskirts of Vienna - in the middle of the extensive Vienna Woods. The popular wine village promises wonderful days out and short breaks: with excellent gastronomy, limitless hikes and exciting sights from times long past. At the sports airfield, you can take to the skies in a balloon - the leisure center offers swimming, ice skating, saunas and climbing. Every year in July, the famous Perchtoldsdorf Summer Games take place in the castle courtyard.

Perchtoldsdorf: movie-ready medieval backdrops - quite real
First mentioned in a document around 1140, the town experienced an economic heyday in the late Middle Ages based on the wine trade. The "Zechen" - craftsmen's guilds - were also of great importance. The buildings that still characterize the townscape today also date from this period. The most important sights are the imposing Perchtoldsdorf castle and church complex - a cinematic tower castle right in the middle of the market square - and the freestanding, 60-metre-high fortified tower, which is the largest preserved fortified tower in the whole of Austria. The Gothic parish church also bears witness to the medieval history of the village.

Hiking vacations in Perchtoldsdorf: from huts to heaths
Extensive hikes start from Perchtoldsdorf into the Föhrenberge Nature Park: with three huts - on the Teufelstein mountain, at the summit of the Parapluieberg and at the Josefswarte - and the Perchtoldsdorfer Heide, a rare dry grassland on the slopes of the Vienna Woods. The area, which is so popular with walkers, is an important natural jewel: many of the habitats, plants and animals found here are particularly rare throughout Europe and are therefore protected by EU directives