Bike Riding Boundless tour around the river mur (Grenzenlose Murauen-Tour) - Touren-Impression #1 | © Erlebnisregion Thermen- & Vulkanland Bike Riding Boundless tour around the river mur (Grenzenlose Murauen-Tour) - Touren-Impression #1 | © Erlebnisregion Thermen- & Vulkanland

Boundless tour around the river mur (Grenzenlose Murauen-Tour)

Cycle across the second largest floodplain in Austria, experience a completely new world.
Worlds of emotion

You can count kilometers, but not feelings. Nature lovers will get their money's worth on this tour. On this cross-border bike tour, you'll get to know the flat Mur landscape in Austria and Slovenia in more detail.

Enjoyment tips for cyclists along the Borderless Murauen Tour:

  • Historic Old Town Bad Radkersburg: 700 year old border town with Renaissance city walls, magnificent buildings, ornate facades, picturesque squares and arcaded courtyards.
  • Museum in the old armory, Bad Radkersburg: Valuable rare exhibits, guild chest collection, art and cultural history highlights. Guided tours: Wednesday and Friday 15.00. Guided tours for groups please call +43 3476 3500-10300 to make an appointment.
  • Urbani Vinotheque, Bad Radkersburg: Town house from the 14th century, wines from the region, wine tasting, wine presentation and wine sales.-Picnic place to the oakafter the chapel Madlhof direction DonnersdorfMeadow for picnic, old oak tree
  • Parktherme Bad Radkersburg: Like new born again. As a unique world of relaxation and activity, the Parktherme Bad Radkersburg presents itself with a lot of warmth and coziness. In the center the singular Thermalwasser, which comes from own Kraft from two kilometers of depth with 80°C most mineral-material-rich to the earth's surface. Dimensions of well-being can also be experienced in the sauna village with innovative experience infusions.
  • Water Experience picnic area: Directly at the RAD suspension bridgeDocumentation of the Mura
  • walking and cycling suspension bridge: Donnersdorf - Apacespan 82,5 m, 3 m gauge
  • Picnic place Plitvica: Village center PlitvicaMeadow for picnic with children's playground
  • Steyer vina Hisa Discecega Traminca, Plitvica, SLO Apace: Winery specialized in Traminer; baptized vineyard with 128 different grape varieties.

Additional information

Recommended direction of travel: Counterclockwise.

Connection/ Networking: Eurovelo 9, R2 Murradweg, R12 Thermenradweg, Boundless cycling!

Here you can find the best cycling spots:
Tourist office Thermen- & Vulkanland
Guest Information Bad Radkersburg
Main square 14
8490 Bad Radkersburg
Tel: +43 3382 55 100-90
badradkersburg@thermen-vulkanland.at
www.thermen-vulkanland.at

Information office TIC Gornja Radgona
Kerenciceva ul. 14
SLO 9250 Gornja Radgona
Tel: +386 25648240
Zt-tic.radgona@siol.net


Author’s recommendation
An insider tip in Dietzen is the beetle bean cabinet Bäcksteffl of the beetle bean queen Michaela I.

Author
Christian Contola

Safety guidelines
Emergency call mountain rescue: 140
ambulance: 144
European emergency call: 112
firefighters: 122
police: 133

Tips when reporting an emergency – Answer these six WH questions: What happened? How many people are injured? Where did the accident happen (are there GPS coordinates)? Who is reporting the incident (callback number)? When did the accident happen? What is the weather like at the site of the incident?


Directions
Let your feelings run free

"Fresh wild garlic, murauenfrischer Wild garlic" shouts a stallholder on the main square of Bad Radkersburg. This plant, popularly known as "wild spinach," shouldn't be the only thing that stirs your emotions on the pleasure tour. Wild garlic litter the bottom of the floodplain in a lush green natural carpet and gives off the unmistakable scent of garlic in spring. If you want to discover a typical flat Mura landscape in Austria and Slovenia, this is the tour for you. You will cross an area of 11,000 hectares, which is the second largest closed floodplain in Austria. When you enter the floodplain, you think you are in an alien world: a jungle-like thicket of poplars, English oaks, acacias, on which many climbing plants climb up, such as hops, wild grapevine and ivy.

There is an immense wealth of species here. Woodpeckers alone are represented by seven species. The reason for this species richness is the occurrence of many marginal biotopes as transitional habitats.

Typical of the Mur floodplains are the lakes, former oxbow lakes of the Mur. They are among the most valuable habitats of all and are home to many rare plants and animals such as cormorants, black woodpeckers, rooks and robins. The Nachdenkraum Natur begins directly in Bad Radkersburg. The sight of the dense vegetation and the variety of living creatures is overwhelming. The first rest at the Liebmann Lake becomes an experience. The swans majestically cross the lake and the children can hardly keep up with the feeding. An insider tip in Dietzen is the beetle bean cabinet Bäcksteffl.

Simply feel, simply live.

Past the community chapel "Madlhof" you reach the suspension bridge, which leads you directly to Slovenia - light vibrations accompany your crossing. Via Apace you cycle on and cross the Pannonian forest in Apasko Polje. Thick oaks and meter-high ant hills revive the long-forgotten Indian game from childhood. The famous winegrower Steyer Vina in Plitvica, will be happy to explain you the baptized vineyard with over 128 different grape varieties. Behind the Schlossberg, on which the Oberradkersburg Castle is enthroned, you will cross the Mura Bridge and end your tour in Bad Radkersburg with the relaxing Parktherme. The body washed around - by the well-tempered thermal water - begins to live anew, you feel the peace and serenity. That feels good. And makes you want to experience more cycling.

Map / Maps
Tourist Office Thermen- & Vulkanland
Gästeinfo Bad Radkersburg
Hauptplatz 14
8490 Bad Radkersburg
Tel: +43 3382 55 100-90
badradkersburg@thermen-vulkanland.at
www.therme-vulkanland.at

Characteristics

Skill
Fitness

Best season

January
February
November
December

The tour in numbers

29,5 km
Route
2:30 h
Time
54 hm
Uphill
54 hm
Downhill
240 m
Highest point

Map & downloads

More information

From Vienna: A2 exit Ilz - Feldbach - Bad Radkersburg

From direction Graz: A9 exit Vogau - Gosdorf - Bad Radkersburg

Detailed information on how to get there can be found here.
Let your feelings run free

"Fresh wild garlic, murauenfrischer Wild garlic" shouts a stallholder on the main square of Bad Radkersburg. This plant, popularly known as "wild spinach," shouldn't be the only thing that stirs your emotions on the pleasure tour. Wild garlic litter the bottom of the floodplain in a lush green natural carpet and gives off the unmistakable scent of garlic in spring. If you want to discover a typical flat Mura landscape in Austria and Slovenia, this is the tour for you. You will cross an area of 11,000 hectares, which is the second largest closed floodplain in Austria. When you enter the floodplain, you think you are in an alien world: a jungle-like thicket of poplars, English oaks, acacias, on which many climbing plants climb up, such as hops, wild grapevine and ivy.

There is an immense wealth of species here. Woodpeckers alone are represented by seven species. The reason for this species richness is the occurrence of many marginal biotopes as transitional habitats.

Typical of the Mur floodplains are the lakes, former oxbow lakes of the Mur. They are among the most valuable habitats of all and are home to many rare plants and animals such as cormorants, black woodpeckers, rooks and robins. The Nachdenkraum Natur begins directly in Bad Radkersburg. The sight of the dense vegetation and the variety of living creatures is overwhelming. The first rest at the Liebmann Lake becomes an experience. The swans majestically cross the lake and the children can hardly keep up with the feeding. An insider tip in Dietzen is the beetle bean cabinet Bäcksteffl.

Simply feel, simply live.

Past the community chapel "Madlhof" you reach the suspension bridge, which leads you directly to Slovenia - light vibrations accompany your crossing. Via Apace you cycle on and cross the Pannonian forest in Apasko Polje. Thick oaks and meter-high ant hills revive the long-forgotten Indian game from childhood. The famous winegrower Steyer Vina in Plitvica, will be happy to explain you the baptized vineyard with over 128 different grape varieties. Behind the Schlossberg, on which the Oberradkersburg Castle is enthroned, you will cross the Mura Bridge and end your tour in Bad Radkersburg with the relaxing Parktherme. The body washed around - by the well-tempered thermal water - begins to live anew, you feel the peace and serenity. That feels good. And makes you want to experience more cycling.

An insider tip in Dietzen is the beetle bean cabinet Bäcksteffl of the beetle bean queen Michaela I.

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

With Verbundlinie’s BusBahnBim route planner app, planning your journey has never been easier: simply enter towns and/or addresses, stop names or points of interest to check all bus, train and tram connections in Austria. The app is available free of charge for smartphones – on Google Play and in the App Store

The following public parking spaces are available in Bad Radkersburg:
  • Altstadt Bad Radkersburg - max. parking duration of 90 minutes.
  • Stadtpark (Hasenheide) and Stadtgraben - max. parking duration of 180 minutes
  • Park+Ride "P-Nord" in Dr. Kamniker-Straße and Park+Ride "P-Ost" near the Thermenarena - max. parking duration one week
Recommended direction of travel: Counterclockwise.

Connection/ Networking: Eurovelo 9, R2 Murradweg, R12 Thermenradweg, Boundless cycling!

Here you can find the best cycling spots:
Tourist office Thermen- & Vulkanland

Guest Information Bad Radkersburg
Main square 14
8490 Bad Radkersburg
+43 3382 55 100-90
badradkersburg@thermen-vulkanland.at
www.thermen-vulkanland.at

Information office TIC Gornja Radgona
Kerenciceva ul. 14
SLO 9250 Gornja Radgona
+386 25648240
Zt-tic.radgona@siol.net

Gallery

What the weather will be like

Halbenrain (221m)

23.08.2024
very sunny
15°C 31°C
24.08.2024
sunny
17°C 32°C
25.08.2024
sunny
17°C 32°C
Kindererlebnis-Bauernhof Perhofer, Silvia | © Oststeiermark Tourismus, Rene Strasser

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