Hiking route Floodplain & shore trail - Long variant / Trail 8 - Touren-Impression #1 | © Erlebnisregion Thermen- & Vulkanland Hiking route Floodplain & shore trail - Long variant / Trail 8 - Touren-Impression #1 | © Erlebnisregion Thermen- & Vulkanland

Floodplain & shore trail - Long variant / Trail 8

Somewhat longer but all the more beautiful hiking trail. Through forests and along Feistritz and Rittschein and past the golf course. Scenically charming, largely flat.    
The tour leads through a beautiful mixed forest into the Rittscheintal to Gillersdorf - past the golf course you reach the Feistritz (a natural border river to Burgenland). This section is particularly charming. In total you walk through 3 districts: Gillersdorf, Dietersdorf and Bad Loipersdorf. 

Characteristics

Skill
Fitness

Best season

January
February
December

The tour in numbers

easy
Level of difficulty
19,8 km
Route
5:00 h
Time
188 hm
Uphill
188 hm
Downhill
355 m
Highest point

Map & downloads

More information

From Vienna & Lower Austria
By car: South freeway (A2) to exit Riegersdorf, from here via the S7 in direction Budapest to exit Fürstenfeld, via Fürstenfels bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.
 
From Graz
By car: on the A2 motorway in the direction of Vienna as far as the Riegersdorf exit, from here via the S7 in the direction of Budapest to the exit Fürstenfeld. From here via Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.
 
From Western Austria and Bavaria
By car: via Salzburg on the Phyrn freeway (A9) and the Süd freeway (A2) or via Carinthia on the Süd freeway (A2) to the Riegersdorf exit, from here via the S7 in the direction of Budapest to the exit Fürstenfeld. From here via Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.
 
From Italy or Slovenia
By car: via Villach on the southern freeway (A2) to the Riegersdorf exit or via Maribor on the Phyrn freeway (A9) and the southern freeway (A2) in the direction of Vienna to the Riegersdorf exit. From here via the S7 in the direction of Budapest to the exit Fürstenfeld. From here via Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.

Detailed information on how to get there can be found here.

THERMENLANDBUS
The Thermenland bus runs two times a day on weekdays and once a day on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays between Vienna and the Loipersdorf spa resort.
Along the Rittschein you come back to Gillersdorf and from here you have the ascent via Hartbergen back to the spa. Past the Hartbergschlössel (private) you can take a break at the Thermenstadlheurigen (open from 16.00; except Sun), or at Martin's Heurigen (from 11:00 except Thu). Immediately afterwards, on the panorama terrace of the VINO.TAKE, you have a beautiful "look back" into the valley where you were shortly before on the way. Then it's a leisurely walk - somewhat off the road - back to the spa resort.        
It is worthwhile in the area of the Feistritz - where it is possible - to go all the way to the bank. A natural landscape with this flora and fauna is now rarely seen. Impressive how a river makes its way and with a lot of luck you might see a kingfisher.   

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

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Parking lots in front of the thermal resort Loipersdorf.
Hiking map available at: 

Tourist Office Thermen- &  Vulkanland
Guest information Bad Loipersdorf
Thermenstraße 152
8282 Bad Loipersdorf
Phone: +43 3382 55 100-82
badloipersdorf@thermen-vulkanland.at
www.thermen-vulkanland.at

Gallery

Kindererlebnis-Bauernhof Perhofer, Silvia | © Oststeiermark Tourismus, Rene Strasser

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