In the cold periods of the Günz-, Mindel-, and Rissis Age, the Krems glacier, coming from the south, pushed with its huge glacier tongue far into the Alpine foothills and stored in the municipality of Waldneukirchen abounds in massive moraine trees made of gravel, sand and clay.

The glacier brooks that emerged from the ice, forerunners of the Steyr, built up bulkheads in the ice-free area during the cold times.

Large parts of the northern plateau of the municipality belong to this gravel area of the elevated terrace above the Steyr river, up to which the municipality extends in the south- At the time of the most recent glaciation (Würm), silt-rich cover layers were blown up in all ice-free (periglacial) parts of the plateau northwest of the Steyr.

The rainwater is not diverted into the depths, but flows mostly in the municipality to the north via Fernbach, Binderbach into the Krems.

The agricultural soils in the municipality of Waldneukirchen consist - according to the explanations of the soil map 1: 25000 - in their A-Horizont s mainly of loamy silt, are medium humus and lime-free, and clearly crumbly, the B-Horizont e are mostly loamy silt or sandy loam, which is usually free of lime.