Organ Hiking: Stage Pöllauberg - Masenberg
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The Pöllau Valley Nature Park is located in the heart of Eastern Styria, the garden of Austria, approx. 60 km north-east of Graz and approx. 150 km south of Vienna
By car from ViennaIf you are driving from Vienna to Pöllau bei Hartberg, take the A2 towards Graz and drive about 110 kilometres until you reach the Hartberg exit. From there, follow the B54 in the direction of Pöllau.
By car from GrazTo get to Pöllau bei Hartberg from Graz, take the A2 motorway in the direction of Vienna. After about 30 kilometres, take the Gleisdorf West exit and then take the B54 towards Hartberg/Pöllau. Follow the B54 for about 25 kilometres until you reach Pöllau.
By car from SalzburgTo get to Pöllau bei Hartberg from Salzburg, take the A1 motorway towards Vienna. Drive about 110 kilometres to exit 109 (Salzburg junction). There change to the A9 motorway in the direction of Graz. At St. Michael, follow the S6 towards Kapfenberg. Continue on the S6 until the Krieglach exit. From there, take the B72 and then the L405 to Pöllau.
- Starting from the Pöllauberg pilgrimage church, then past the Annakirche church across the main square, head north towards the entrance to the village until you reach the crossroads at the chapel.
- Keep slightly to the right there and walk approx. 200 m to the next crossroads with the sign "Hartberg" and continue straight uphill.
- Stay on the L 431, the Pöllaubergstraße, for approx. 200 m, then follow the signpost with a rest area and turn right into the forest. At first the path is relatively steep through the forest, then briefly along the edge of the forest and uphill again through the forest to the junction with the main road.
- Cross the road and walk along the Schmalzgruberweg past two wayside shrines to the next signpost, then follow the red-white-red markings no. 942 to the right.
Fork Röstenbauer - fork 942 - Masenberg
- Continue uphill on the marked red-white-red hiking trail no. 942 until you reach a small wayside shrine.
- Once you reach it, take the forest path on the left to the next very clear signpost with a station board for the forest nature trail.
- Turn left onto the Lüßwaldsattel and right onto our destination for today, the Masenberg.
- Follow the right-hand hiking trail with yellow dots no. 942, a somewhat steeper forest path, along the meadow until you reach a very beautiful hunting lodge with a rest stop (Schmalzgruber).
- From here, the trail leads through a high forest, past another small hut and up the Masenberg to the Glückskapelle chapel.
Tourism region Eastern StyriaNature Park Pöllauer Valley officeSchloss 1, 8225 Pöllau, AustriaPhone: +43 3335 4210 www.naturpark-poellauertal.at www.oststeiermark.com
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Tourism region Eastern StyriaNature Park Pöllauer Valley officeSchloss 1, 8225 PöllauTel: +43 3335 4210 www.naturpark-poellauertal.atwww.oststeiermark.com
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Pöllauberg (751m)
