Crisscross path (Kreuz & Querpfad) - Long variant / Trail 9

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On 2 different route lengths you will encounter history and stories. Many wayside crosses, shrines and chapels line these scenic paths.

The long variant has not only more kilometers, but also more interesting places and charming high trails. On the Kögelberg (with 405 m the highest point of the former district Fürstenfeld) you have a wide distant view.

Characteristics

Skill

Fitness

Best season

January

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The tour in numbers

medium

Level of difficulty

18,8 km

Route

5:00 h

Time

270 hm

Uphill

270 hm

Downhill

407 m

Highest point

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FROM VIENNA & LOWER AUSTRIA

By car: South freeway (A2) to exit Ilz/Fürstenfeld. From here via Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.

FROM GRAZ

By car: on the A2 motorway in the direction of Vienna as far as the Ilz/Fürstenfeld exit. From here via Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.

FROM WESTERN AUSTRIA AND BAVARIA

By car: via Salzburg on the Phyrn freeway (A9) and the Süd freeway (A2) or via Carinthia on the Süd freeway (A2) to the Ilz/Fürstenfeld exit. From here via Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.

FROM ITALY OR SLOVENIA

By car: via Villach on the southern freeway (A2) to the Ilz - Fürstenfeld - Bad Loipersdorf exit or via Maribor on the Phyrn freeway (A9) and the southern freeway (A2) in the direction of Vienna to the Ilz/Fürstenfeld exit. From here via Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.

Detailed information on how to get there can be found here.

Entrance vis á vis Hotel Stoiser into the forest. Initially forest path, past the liver cones (Roman tumuli from the 1st and 2nd century AD), then alternately over forest paths and hardly traveled municipal roads.
The shorter route leads along vineyards to the village of Stein and then rejoins the longer route in Kleinsteinberg.
The longer route leads along a ridge to the Kögelberg (with 405m the highest point of the former district Fürstenfeld). Both routes take you from the Oberberg down to the village of Bad Loipersdorf. Then continue in the direction of Rehgraben and via the forest path back to the spa. An experience!

In addition to the interesting crossroads descriptions, the tour is also very scenic. For a long time, the route takes you along a ridge with beautiful views of the rolling hills of the thermal region.

Detailed information about arriving by ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railways) can be found at www.oebb.at or on the Verbundlinie Steiermark website www.busbahnbim.at

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Parking lot in front of the spa resort Loipersdorf

Tourist Office Thermen- & Vulkanland
Guest information Bad Loipersdorf
Thermenstraße 152
8282 Bad Loipersdorf
Phone: +43 3382 55 100-82
badloipersdorf@thermen-vulkanland.at
www.thermen-vulkanland.at