Organ Hiking: Stage Pöllauberg - Masenberg

Name: Organ Hiking: Stage Pöllauberg - Masenberg
Brand: Steiermark
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Hiking from the Pöllauberg pilgrimage church past the Annakirche church to the Glückskapelle chapel on the Masenberg mountain Cultural tourism: sacred art and organ hiking

In the Pöllauer Tal Nature Park and the ApfelLand-Stubenbergsee, you can combine your hike with art and culture and enjoy the culinary delights. The individual organ hiking tours can be easily combined with each other.Hike from church to church in the Pöllau Valley Nature Park and ApfelLand- Stubenbergsee regions and get to know the advantages of an individual guided tour with the sound of bells and organs. Download the free "Hearonymus" app, select "Churches in the ApfelLand-Stubenbergsee and Pöllau Valley Nature Park" under "Guides" and your smartphone has become an audio guide.

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The tour in numbers

easy

Level of difficulty

4,7 km

Route

2:00 h

Time

530 hm

Uphill

20 hm

Downhill

1251 m

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Pöllauberg, Nature Park Arena

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.

Pöllauberg - Dreihöf - Röstenbauer fork in the road

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.

Experience the scenic diversity of thePöllau Valley Nature ParkPlan enough time to enjoy theculinary delights

Timetables and travel information can be found atÖsterreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB) or at Verkehrsauskunft Verbundlinie.For local transport we recommend the SAM-Sammeltaxi Oststeiermark.

Pöllauberg, Nature Park Arena

Information about the region, places to stop for refreshments and overnight accommodation, excursion destinations etc. can be found here:

Tourism region Eastern StyriaNature Park Pöllauer Valley officeSchloss 1, 8225 Pöllau, AustriaPhone: +43 3335 4210 www.naturpark-poellauertal.at www.oststeiermark.com

Current weather Mobility Eastern Styria with shared taxi SAM

Kompass Map, Hiking Map Nature Park Pöllauer Valley 1:30,000

Find out about maps, hiking brochures and other tour tips at the tourist office. You can also order information material on our website from the comfort of your own home.

Tourism region Eastern StyriaNature Park Pöllauer Valley officeSchloss 1, 8225 PöllauTel: +43 3335 4210 www.naturpark-poellauertal.atwww.oststeiermark.com

Rother hiking guide "Oststeiermark - Von den Fischbacher Alpen bis in die Thermenregion", 50 tours, Elisabeth Zienitzer & Silvia Sarcletti paperback, ISBN-10, 376334577 available in bookshops