Martinusweg. In the footsteps of St. Martin.

Since 2016, the St. Martin's Way, as part of the European middle route "Via Sancti Martini", has led past the HOTELMARIA between Szombathely in Hungary, where St. Martin was born, and Tours in France, where he worked as a bishop and is buried.

One of the stages leads from Donnerskirchen to Gramatneusiedl. The HOTELMARIA is one of the selected hotels for pilgrims who receive their stamp upon presentation of the pilgrim passport.

The stage

Mattersburg via Eisenstadt to Donnerskirchen

Eisenstadt with the Haydnkirche and the Kalvarienberg

Donnerskirchen to Gramatneusiedl

over the Leitha Mountains to Mannersdorf through the Mannersdorf Desert nature reserve and past the St. Anna Monastery, via Götzendorf along the fields and past the Pischelsdorfer Wiesen nature reserve to Gramatneusiedl

Parish church of St. Peter & Paul in Gramatneusiedl

We would be happy to inform you about Holy Mass in the parish church

Gramatneusiedl nach Wien

From the HOTELMARIA you go via Velm through the Colony Golf Club Gutenhof to Himberg to Maria Lanzendorf. Maria Lanzendorf Electoral Church then continue via Vösendorf to Vienna, Siebenhirten.

mARIA LANZENDORF

One of the oldest pilgrimage sites in Austria with a long history.

11 km from the HOTELMARIA the church is dedicated to the Mother of Sorrows, the Pieta, Calvary from the Baroque period, a large festival with a market on the Patrozinium, the Friday of the Sorrows

Basil

maria loretto

The pilgrimage site of Loretto in Burgenland is located on the northern edge of the Leitha Mountains.

18 km from the HOTELMARIA The largest pilgrimage day is the Assumption of Mary, August 15th, where around 20,000 people make a pilgrimage to the basilica and visit the market every year. Other important pilgrimage days are the birth of Mary on September 8th and Croatian Sunday on the 3rd Sunday in September