The path is signposted throughout with ‘Weg-Nr. 32/Kulmweg’, in the forest we orientate ourselves by the red-white-red markings.
If you don't want to walk back, you can order a SAM shared taxi to the ‘Schnitzelwirt’/WZ 2214.
Please check the opening hours of the restaurants BEFORE the hike.
Start: Stubenbergsee Weststrand, information board by the Feistritzbrücke bridge
We start at the large information board, path no. 31/Kulmweg leads us out to the left.
The path leads along the edge of the path, with the Stubenbergsee lake below on the left.
Immediately after the high seat, we turn right up to the road.
At the top of the road, we keep right and after about 50 metres we turn left up into the forest.
When we reach the meadow, we turn right uphill, past several viewing benches with views down to the lake.
We turn right out onto the main road and have now arrived at GH Windhaber. There is a lovely garden here with a view.
We continue uphill along the road and turn right at the next junction.
Before the end of the village sign, we turn left uphill onto the hiking trail.
We continue left on the tarmac road, after a few steps we turn right again onto the hiking trail, which leads past two resting benches.
Back on the tarmac road, we turn left and pass a beautiful wayside shrine.
Immediately after the bend, we continue left along the driveway and then straight up across the meadow.
At the tarmac road we turn left and after approx. 100 metres we turn right into the forest.
The next section of the path now leads us through the forest, briefly across a meadow and then uphill along the forest road.
We are now already at the top of the ridge and take a short detour to the ‘Kulmkögerl’, a crossroads with benches and a view. (Marking: ‘Kögerlrundweg’)
We take the few steps back onto the ‘Kulmweg’ and continue almost level to the right. We are now accompanied by the modern Stations of the Cross and have beautiful views of Lake Stubenberg.
We pass a rest area with a wayside cross and pass the ‘Schnitzelwirt’ inn.
If you want to walk to the Kulm summit, turn right up the road at the crossroads. The summit is reached after approx. 1.5 km.
At the road junction, we continue downhill to the left and then immediately turn left downhill into the meadow (the entrance is difficult to see here!).
We walk steeply downhill across the meadow and then turn right into the forest.
We come to the tarmac road, walk downhill for a short distance and turn right into the forest again before the houses.
In the forest, we walk a short stretch parallel to the road, and just before the farmstead we go straight down across the meadow.
We descend a few steps and then immediately turn right onto the wide farm track.
The path now leads us down to the left, directly towards the farmsteads at Freienbergdörfl.
Once we reach the tarmac road, we continue to the right.
At the next crossroads, we turn left and continue along the road.
After the large orchard, we turn left onto the hiking trail and walk along the forest edge.
Shortly before the end of the forest, we turn left into the forest.
In the forest, we walk downhill to the tarmac road and continue on this road to the left.
We now walk downhill on the tarmac road to the Feistritz or Stubenbergsee lake.
There we turn left onto the path and walk parallel to the Feistritz or Stubenbergsee back to the Feistritzbrücke bridge, our starting point.