The Hohe Wand is a long limestone escarpment above the Vienna Basin near Wiener Neustadt, south of Vienna. Its south-east facing walls, up to about 200 m high, carry many short multipitch routes, several of them recently bolted plaisir lines; the rock on the best walls is very solid, but the stepped ground between can be splintery. The base is Stollhof: the Hohe Wand toll road climbs to the plateau, with a large car park (fee) at its first hairpin below the Sonnenuhrwand and Postlwand, and routes there finish on the plateau by the Skywalk viewing platform, with a walk down the marked Völlerin path. The walls lie between about 600 and 950 m, and bergsteigen.com gives March to November as the season.
GuidebookAlpinkletterführer Hohe Wand, Thomas Behm (2023, Selbstverlag (Th. Behm)). Buy from kletterfuehrer.net. The route pages here are aggregated by AI from public sources; climb with the guidebook.
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Sonnenuhrwand and Postlwand above Stollhof · 877 m
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar (usual season) | Apr (usual season) | May (usual season) | Jun (usual season) | Jul (usual season) | Aug (usual season) | Sep (usual season) | Oct (usual season) | Nov (usual season) | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean daily high °C | 0 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 1 |
| Mean daily low °C | −6 | −6 | −3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 4 | −1 | −5 |
| Rain days 1 mm or more | 10 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 11 |
● usual season. 1991-2020 averages at about 877 m; rain is for a 10–25 km grid cell. Weather and climate data: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0.
Austria · Hohe Wand
Steep slabs and a fine corner on very solid rock on the Hohe Wand's steepest wall, sustained around UIAA VI. bergsteigen.com counts it among the best routes in eastern Austria; with A0 on the crux it goes at about 6a+.
6b+VII+5.10d6b+VII+5.10d6 pitches195 m