Hiking route Culture & Nature Loop - Touren-Impression #1 | © Erlebnisregion Schladming-Dachstein Hiking route Culture & Nature Loop - Touren-Impression #1 | © Erlebnisregion Schladming-Dachstein

Culture & Nature Loop

Beautiful circular hike along the cultural, historical and natural beauties in Trautenfels, Untergrimming and Pürgg.

NATURALLY CULTURAL. On this tour you hike through cultural features such as Trautenfels Castle, the burial ground (Pfanner) and via the Kapuzinersteig the St. Georg parish church and St. John's Chapel in Pürgg. With a short detour also the church ruins of the Neuhaus Protestant church are on your way. Also scenically a beautiful round that takes you past the castle ponds.

Characteristics

Skill
Fitness

Best season

January
February
December

The tour in numbers

easy
Level of difficulty
8,3 km
Route
3:00 h
Time
230 hm
Uphill
230 hm
Downhill
815 m
Highest point

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More information

On the Ennstal federal road B 320, exit at the roundabout in Trautenfels. There is a public car park on the right before the level crossing.

Your tour starts at Trautenfels railway station or in the neighbouring car park. From there, you hike up to Trautenfels Castle. At the local hiking portal, follow the signs towards the Neuhaus church ruins and Grimminghütte. You hike past the Raumberg-Gumpenstein Bioinstitut and the Neuhaus church ruins. The mighty Grimming mountain is visible in front of you the whole time. At the crossroads shortly after the church ruins, turn right and follow the marked path to Untergrimming. You will reach the small village and turn left onto the main road until the Kapuzinersteig branches off to the right.

This will take you up to the village of Pürgg. Here it is worth visiting the parish church of St. George and the adjoining cemetery. The view down to the castle, the Ennsboden and westwards to the Grimming is impressive. Passing the Krenn inn and St. John's Chapel, you hike down from Pürgg towards Unterburg. You walk a short distance towards Stainach and then via the Schranz farm back to Trautenfels to your starting point


From Natur.Kraft.Platz. Schloss Trautenfels it is worth taking a detour to Natur.Kraft.Platz. Neuhaus church ruins - approx. 30 minutes there and back. The third Natur.Kraft.Platz. on this hike is the Johanneskapelle chapel in Pürgg.

Take the ÖBB regional trains to Trautenfels station. There you start your hike. At the car park at Trautenfels Castle you will find a hiking information board.

Public parking lot next to the train station in Trautenfels.

Tourism information: www.schladming-dachstein.at

Schladming-Dachstein Tourist Office
Ramsauerstraße 756
8970 Schladming
T: +43 3687 23310
info@schladming-dachstein.at

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Stainach-Pürgg (665m)

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