Stage 18 From Glacier to Wine North Route Neuberg an der Mürz - Schneealm

Name: Stage 18 From Glacier to Wine North Route Neuberg an der Mürz - Schneealm
Brand: Steiermark
Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

A beautiful and at the same time quite challenging mountain tour in the Mürzer Oberland Nature Park in Hochsteiermark. With the start in the idyllic village of Neuberg an der Mürz with its imposing monastery and the finish on the high plateau of the Schneealm, you experience the charming different landscapes of the nature park in all its facets.

The Mürz River originates here in the Mürzer Oberland Nature Park and subsequently grows into one of the largest rivers in Styria before flowing into the Mur River, Austria's second largest river, at Bruck an der Mur. Dense forests, waterfalls and rock formations characterize the landscape of the nature park, as does the minster the town of Neuberg an der Mürz. The highest elevations in the nature park are the limestone mountain ranges of Rax, Schneealpe and Hohe Veitsch, which are also connected by the "From Glacier to Wine" hiking route. In addition to the protected landscape area "Veitsch - Schneealpe - Raxalpe", the nature and Ramsar protected area Naßköhr Moor, the largest moor complex in the eastern limestone Alps, is also located in the Mürzer Oberland Nature Park.

We also move here on a stage of the circular tour BergZeitReise, which leads through the wildly romantic mountain landscape of Hochsteiermark.

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The tour in numbers

easy

Level of difficulty

11,0 km

Route

5:30 h

Time

1350 hm

Uphill

290 hm

Downhill

1902 m

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Detaillierte Informationen zur Anreise finden Sie hier.

Starting at the Neuberger Münster (Tourist Information Tel. +43 3857 8321), we first walk for a very short distance in a northerly direction / Mürzsteg along the main road in order to reach the Karlgraben after a few meters via the "Ortsteil Schlapfen" and the Rudolfsteig, where we now follow trail 441, always leading partly steeply uphill. Passing the Karleck, which is on the left, we come to a crossroads, where we first keep to the left to meet a little more than 1 km later the 01-er Nordalpenweg, which we have already encountered on some stages of our hiking route "From glacier to wine". Here we keep to the right in an easterly direction to climb the Windberg, the highest elevation of the Schneealm. The wonderful panorama compensates for the often quite strong wind - nomen est omen - that greets us here at the summit.

Afterwards we descend slightly to the Schneealm plateau, where three huts, the Michlbauerhütte (Tel. +43 664 9235900), the Schneealpenhaus (Tel. +43 3857 2190 or +43 664 2495353) and the Lurgbauerhütte (Tel. +43 676 6335456) invite us to stop. Not only do they feature wonderful culinary nature park specialties on their menus, but they also all offer overnight accommodations. The first two are located in the immediate vicinity at the foot of the Windberg, the Lurgbauerhütte is already just over 3 km from the Schneealpenhaus on the next stage up the Rax.

Accessible by train and bus.

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

There are numerous parking spaces available in Neuberg an der Mürz.

Steiermark Tourismus

Tel. +43 316 4003

info@steiermark.com

www.steiermark.com/en

If you would like to hire a tour operator, simply book with Steiermark Touristik, the official travel agency of Steiermark Tourismus:

Tel. +43 316 4003 450,

www.steiermark-touristik.com

The Steiermark Touren app, available free of charge on Google Play and the App Store (Android, iOS), offers detailed first-hand information: brief facts (length, duration, difficulty, ascent and descent/elevation gain, ratings), map, route descriptions, altimeter, compass, peak finder, navigation along the tour. You can also create your own personal lists of favourite tours and sites, store tours and destinations offline, use social media channels, and much more.

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Wanderkarte BergZeitReise durch die Hochsteiermark finden Sie auf www.hochsteiermark.at

Kompass WK210 Wiener Hausberge, Schneeberg-Rax-Semmering-Bucklige Welt-Mürztal www.kompass.at

Freytag & Berndt WK22 Semmering · Rax · Schneeberg · Schneealpe www.freytagberndt.at

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