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title: Vitalwelt Weather Walks
url: "https://www.vitalwelt.at/en/discover-the-region/events/weather-walks.html"
description: On the weather walks with Hans Gessl you will learn to predict the weather based on nature.
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date: 2023-07-18
modified: 2023-07-24
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# Vitalwelt Weather Walks

**Vitalwelt Weather Walks**
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### **We are weather...holistic weather observation**

Today, anyone who wants to know what the weather will be like looks at their smartphone. Anyone who wants to know more looks out of the window and observes nature. The polymath Aristotle (born 384 BC) as the forefather of meteorology and Hildegard von Bingen (born 1098 AD) as the bio-mother of holistic weather forecasting have left behind a comprehensive knowledge of plants and animals as weather messengers that needs to be preserved. When they settled down, our ancestors began to put their experiences with climate and weather into often entertaining rhymes, thus ensuring that they were passed on from generation to generation as farming rules.

 Wer s´Weda ned mag, hat nia an guatn Tag.
 (Those who don't like the weather never have a good day.)

      ![](https://www.vitalwelt.at/fileadmin/_processed_/e/c/csm_Wetterhans_4fad5a80c5.jpg)

      ![](https://www.vitalwelt.at/fileadmin/_processed_/e/0/csm_Wetterhans_mit_Wetterhahn_f73c29a494.jpg)

Every first Monday of the month, Vitalwelt turns the weather "from a problem into a programme" and has engaged the holistic weather observer Hans Gessl for this purpose. The weather journalist/columnist - known as Wetterhans - opens up exciting weather pages in the [Botanica Park Bad Schallerbach](https://www.vitalwelt.at/oesterreich-poi/detail/401534/botanica-park-bad-schallerbach.html), such as "Flowering weather messengers", animals as weather sensors, barometer trees, ways to weather elasticity, climate change stories, weather forecasts 150 years ago, folk cultural heritage farming rules, weather selfies, etc.

He knows how to present the topics in an informative and entertaining way with a twinkle in his eye, but always with a critical eye on the facts - weathertainment in Upper Austrian. These walks are offered exclusively in German.

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  © Open copyright  © Copyright: Robert Josipovic Close copyright

     ![A woman stands in a field of lavender and holds a bouquet of flowers in her hand. She smiles happily into the camera. Behind her is a dense, green stand of trees that forms a gentle backdrop for the scene.](data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== "© Copyright: Robert Josipovic")

 Experience nature

 **Bad Schallerbach**

Discover nature during a 3-day stay with a weather walk and a herb hike.

 **Time period:**  01.03.2026 - 30.10.2026

 [  From € 118,00  ](https://www.vitalwelt.at/en/discover-the-region/events/weather-walks/oesterreich-angebot/detail/3437/experience-nature.html)

  © Open copyright  © Wetterspaziergang Hans Gessl als Franz Stelzhammer Close copyright

     ![](https://www.vitalwelt.at/fileadmin/_processed_/5/f/csm_Wetterspaziergang__Hans_Gessl_als_Franz_Stelzhammer_acae1a9f35.jpg "Wetterspaziergang Hans Gessl als Franz Stelzhammer")

 Franz Stelzhamer as a timeless weather messenger

Wetterhans Gessl introduces Franz Stelzhamer as the originator of weather elasticity.

 [ A funny story ](https://www.vitalwelt.at/en/discover-the-region/events/wetterspaziergang/franz-stelzhamer-als-zeitloser-wetterbote.html)

     ![](https://www.vitalwelt.at/fileadmin/_processed_/1/c/csm_Fr%C3%BChlingsvorschau_Wetterhans__c__Wetterhans_d542286517.jpg)

 Spring Preview 2022

The weather man explains to us how the measuring of the light at Candlemas works and how the spring weather can be deduced from it.

 [ To the weather forec ](https://www.vitalwelt.at/en/discover-the-region/events/weather-walks/oesterreich-veranstaltung/detail/430278527/wetterspaziergang-in-den-fruehling.html)

     ![](https://www.vitalwelt.at/fileadmin/_processed_/4/6/csm_Holunder_Holler_elder-5208832_1920_88d5be031e.jpg)

 Summer weather forecast

*"Wia de Hollastaudn bliaht, so der Summer wird".*

The elder bush not only shapes the landscape with its brilliant white flowers, but can also predict the summer weather.

 [ To the weather forec ](https://www.vitalwelt.at/en/discover-the-region/events/wetterspaziergang/vorschau-aufs-sommerwetter.html)

     ![](https://www.vitalwelt.at/fileadmin/_processed_/a/6/csm_Ostereier__c__Hans_Gessl_ee60383069.jpg)

 Weather egg pecking

The weather egg pecking is an ancient oracle custom in which the colours of the eggs provide clues to medium-term weather situations in the coming months.

 [ About the Easter cus ](https://www.vitalwelt.at/en/discover-the-region/events/wetterspaziergang/wettereierpecken.html)

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