According to legend, Wolfgang led a hermit's life at Lake Wolfgangsee (then Abersee), to which he was particularly fond of since his missionary work. He lived in a cave on the Falkenstein and led an austere life. He is said to have taken and thrown his axe at the Falkenstein. Where it landed, he would later build a church with his own hands, today's pilgrimage church of St Wolfgang.

Over the centuries, thousands of pilgrims have come to St Wolfgang from all over the world, but now the old pilgrimage routes are being followed by leisure pilgrims to Lake Wolfgangsee. Whether from his birthplace Pfullingen in Swabia, from his episcopal see in Regensburg, from Bálf in Hungary or from Prague in Bohemia, whose diocese he founded over 1000 years ago, the "Wolfgang trails" still lead to the same destination today: his hermitage on the Falkenstein and the church he built in St Wolfgang.