Hiking route Roseggersteig - Touren-Impression #1 | © Erlebnisregion Schladming-Dachstein Hiking route Roseggersteig - Touren-Impression #1 | © Erlebnisregion Schladming-Dachstein

Roseggersteig

A postcard-themed hike dedicated to the Styrian local poet Peter Rosegger. It takes you to the Brandriedel, with a spectacular view of the Dachstein south walls.

The Ramsau alpine pasture area stretches between the Brandriedel in the east and the Rötelstein in the west with a wonderful view and photo point at the Brandriedel. Magnificent view over the Ramsau Plateau and the Schladminger Tauern. The Brandriedel inspired the Viennese writer Kurt Maix for his flashback to Ramsau's past. Here he wrote, as he himself said "...lying in the alpine meadow on the Brandriedel..." the story of the mountaineering personalities under the spell of the Dachstein south face.

The special thing about this landscape is the immediate transition from the green alpine pastures into the rubble cirques of the southern walls. Light larch forests and alpine meadows are overlooked by the bright, 4 km wide and almost 1,000 meter high Dachstein south walls. Alpine huts, horses, cattle and sheep enliven this area.


Characteristics

Skill
Fitness

Best season

January
February
March
April
May
November
December

The tour in numbers

medium
Level of difficulty
5,8 km
Route
2:45 h
Time
404 hm
Uphill
404 hm
Downhill
1716 m
Highest point

Map & downloads

More information

From the west: Tauern Autobahn (A 10) to Knoten Ennstal - turnoff direction Graz/Schladming - stay on the Ennstal-Bundesstraße (B320) for approx. 20 km until Schladming - take the turnoff for Ramsau. 

From the north:  Pyhrn Autobahn (A 9)  direction Liezen - take the Ennstal-Bundesstraße (B320)  to Schladming - turnoff Ramsau.

Drive up to Ramsau and through the village until you reach the turn-off "Edelbrunn" to your right-hand side. Drive up the road to the parking lot.

From the Edelbrunn-Roseggersteig hiking trail head, you first hike up a wide forest path to the right of the Edelbrunn inn. At the crossroads in the forest you keep left and continue to follow the path, which eventually becomes narrower and leads you through an - often dry - river bed. The path now becomes steeper and takes you through the forest up to Brandriedel. In the last few meters a steel staircase helps you up the steep slope - and the spectacular view of the Dachstein south walls opens up in front of you.

From here you hike slightly downhill through the light larch forest to the Austriahütte. There you have the choice of whether you descend back to your starting point via the Brandalm and path #615 to Dachsteinhaus and Edelbrunn, or hike further up to the Hotel Türlwand and the Gasthof Hunerkogel, from where you can take the bus back to Ramsau.

Especially in autumn, the Brandriedel in the gold of the larches is an incomparable place.

With the bus of "Ramsauer Verkehrsbetriebe" from Schladming train station to Ramsau. Exit at bus stop "Langegasse". From there it is a 10-minute walk up to the starting point. See the timetables HERE

Hiking map Schladming-Dachstein, 1:50,000, available in the information offices

Hiking guide Schladming-Dachstein by Herbert Raffalt (available only in German), available in the information offices

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What the weather will be like

Ramsau am Dachstein (1137m)

Morning
foggy
15°C
25%
5 km/h
Noon
foggy
21°C
55%
10 km/h
Night
cloudy
16°C
70%
10 km/h
Prolonged light rain in the morning, showers and sunny spells in the afternoon.
Morning
foggy
14°C
65%
5 km/h
Noon
cloudy
19°C
60%
15 km/h
Night
sunny
16°C
35%
10 km/h
Rain and rain showers will end around noon. Dry with a chance of sunny spells afterwards.
25.07.2024
sunny
10°C 22°C
26.07.2024
very sunny
8°C 26°C
27.07.2024
very sunny
11°C 28°C

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