Find Hotels in Pill

Pill offers concrete starting points for planning a trip: hikes, the Kellerjochbahn and the area’s historic buildings and local history. If you’re looking for a hotel in Pill, you can first consider whether hiking, a ride on the mountain railway or cultural topics should shape your stay. The stated walking times, the altitude of the mountain station and the historical dates help you weigh up these different interests.

Hikes with different time frames

The Path of the Senses is five kilometres long and takes around three hours. It starts and ends at the Pillberg car park. Starting and finishing at the same car park gives the tour a clear time frame and location: you can allow around three hours for the route as a separate part of your day’s plans.

Another hiking option leads to the Piller Waterfall in Pill; the walk takes about one hour. When planning your time, you can compare this hike with the roughly three-hour Path of the Senses. This gives you two different time frames to choose from, without combining the routes into a single tour. If you’re planning your trip around the time available, the approximate duration and the Path of the Senses’ start and end point are useful reference points.

Ride the Kellerjochbahn to Arbeser

The Kellerjochbahn takes visitors from Grafenast to the Arbeser mountain station at an altitude of 1,887 metres on a double chairlift. The access point for the railway in Pill is at Pillbergstraße 210, 6136 Pill. Regio bus route No. 8 also runs to Grafenast and provides access to the Kellerjochbahn area. This identifies the mountain railway’s starting point, transport and destination station: Grafenast is the starting point and Arbeser is the mountain station.

The railway and the hikes offer different ways to spend your time in Pill. You can plan around whether you want to set aside time for a hike or are interested in taking the mountain railway from Grafenast. The access point’s address helps establish the Kellerjochbahn’s connection to Pill; bus route No. 8 runs to Grafenast.

Parish church and local history

The parish church of St Anne in Pill was built between 1516 and 1518. Its Gothic tower dates from 1516. The Baroque, octagonal section topped with an onion dome is attributed to Jakob Flörl and dates from 1718. Christoph Anton Mayr painted the vault frescoes around 1750. The church thus has several distinct historical dates: the building’s construction period, the origin of the Gothic tower, the later Baroque tower section and the frescoes, which date from later still. “Octagonal” describes the shape of the section; the onion dome crowns the tower.

The Plankenhof also has ties to local craft and production history. In the 18th century, Maria Theresa granted the Plankenhof the right to distil fruit spirits. This historical grant is a separate point of interest from the parish church’s architectural history: it concerns a right to distil fruit spirits, not the construction of a building.

The veneration of the Holy Cross in Pill dates back to the recovery of a cross from a bridge. It fell into the Inn during the fire at the Zirl Inn Bridge on 25 July 1703 and was recovered at the Heiligkreuzstollen tunnel below Pill. The date and the specific recovery site give the tradition a clear historical connection to Pill.

Plan your stay in Pill

If you’re interested in the mountain railway, the access point on Pillbergstraße and the ride from Grafenast are important details. For a cultural and historical focus, consider the parish church’s construction phases and frescoes, along with the Plankenhof’s historical connection to fruit distilling. This lets you choose a hotel in Pill based on the interests that matter most for your trip.

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