--- title: Schafberg cross Mondsee Salzkammergut url: "https://www.upperaustria.com/en/oesterreich-poi/detail/430022402/schafberg-cross.html" description: The Schafberg cross exists since 1981 in Mondsee in the Salzkammergut date: 2017-02-22 modified: 2026-03-18 --- # Schafberg cross Mondsee Salzkammergut Schafberg cross ================= St. Gilgen, Oberösterreich, Österreich ![](https://assets.tourdata.at/260x195/220639/322F025397415011D977598B2A5FA3B990CBBA37298CC5D1E64744E3356454A6/schafbergkreuz.jpg) ![](https://assets.tourdata.at/260x195/220640/5E760BAFAF3E6CC0E7AFE95E719488D2EE8E9F1F8DABBD18B3072C2FAF7630F2/schafbergkreuz-vor-der-basilika.jpg) © Open copyright © Annelu Wenter Close copyright [ ![View of a cross at the top of a mountain, with a lake in the background](https://assets.tourdata.at/x550/220639/322F025397415011D977598B2A5FA3B990CBBA37298CC5D1E64744E3356454A6/schafbergkreuz.jpg "© Annelu Wenter") ](https://assets.tourdata.at/1920x/220639/322F025397415011D977598B2A5FA3B990CBBA37298CC5D1E64744E3356454A6/schafbergkreuz.jpg) © Open copyright © Annelu Wenter Close copyright [ ![View of a cross in front of the church](https://assets.tourdata.at/x550/220640/5E760BAFAF3E6CC0E7AFE95E719488D2EE8E9F1F8DABBD18B3072C2FAF7630F2/schafbergkreuz-vor-der-basilika.jpg "© Annelu Wenter") ](https://assets.tourdata.at/1920x/220640/5E760BAFAF3E6CC0E7AFE95E719488D2EE8E9F1F8DABBD18B3072C2FAF7630F2/schafbergkreuz-vor-der-basilika.jpg) 1. 2. Schafberggipfel 5310 St. Gilgen [ open in Google Maps ](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Schafberggipfel%2C%205310%20St.%20Gilgen "Link will open in a new window") [ Open in Apple Maps ](https://maps.apple.com/place?address=Schafberggipfel%2C%205310%20St.%20Gilgen "Link will open in a new window") ![](https://static.ecmaps.de/staticmap.jpg?experience=webarchitektur-meta&lat=47.776769364149466&lon=13.430713713169098&width=991&height=450&project=ttg-basemap&zoom=2000&server=meta.tourdata.at) The Schafberg summit has been easily accessible since 1893 thanks to the cogwheel railway, and the hotel and hut provide food and accommodation. There was no summit cross until the 80s. The population came up with the suggestion to build one there. Herbert Meindl made a 4.5-meter-high larch cross and decorated it with the inscription: "Many paths lead to God, one of them over the mountains." For a week, the cross was placed on the church square, before it was on September 27, 1981 Inaugurated on the occasion of a mountain fair. 5 years later it was the victim of a lightning bolt. Countess Ruth Almeida donated larch wood for a new cross. August Meindl and his son Herbert built it and it was inaugurated on 31 August 1986 as part of the mountain fair.1) The Himmelspfortensteig was built in 1884. Also on this way several memorial sites remind of mountain accidents. 1.) see. Archive of the Mondsee section of the PES [ Contact ](#ttgCollapseKontakt) ---------------------------------- **Schafberg cross** Schafberggipfel 5310 St. Gilgen Phone [ +43 6232 4166 ](tel:+4362324166) E-Mail [info@ortedesglaubens.at](#mailto) Web [www.ortedesglaubens.at/mondsee](https://www.ortedesglaubens.at/mondsee "New window") https://www.ortedesglaubens.at/mondsee --- **Contact person** Pfarre Mondsee Kirchengasse 1 5310 Mondsee am Mondsee --- **We speak the following languages** German [ Arrival ](#ttgCollapseAnreise) ---------------------------------- [ Accessibility ](#ttgCollapseBarrierefreiheit) ------------------------------------------------- Please get in touch for more information. [To the website](https://www.ortedesglaubens.at/mondsee "New window") powered by [TOURDATA](https://www.tourdata.at "New window") [ ![TOURDATA Logo](https://www.upperaustria.com/fileadmin/templates/global/images/Logo-Tourdata.png "TOURDATA Logo") ](https://www.tourdata.at "New window")