Long-Distance Hiking Etappe 12: BergZeitReise Kindberg - Pogusch - Kapfenberg - Touren-Impression #1 Long-Distance Hiking Etappe 12: BergZeitReise Kindberg - Pogusch - Kapfenberg - Touren-Impression #1

Etappe 12: BergZeitReise Kindberg - Pogusch - Kapfenberg

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Stage 12 - at a glance:

Start: Kindberg or Berggasthof Pölzl near Kindberg, tourist information, overnight accommodations: Tel.: +43 3865 3764, www.kindberg.at or Berggasthof Pölzl Tel.: +43 676 67 67 165, www.schwammerlwirt-poelzl.at

Cab services: Taxi Hinterleitner Tel.: +43 3865 3624, Sigis Taxi Tel.: +43 3865 2481

GPS grid N 47° 31' 42,3" E 15° 24' 54,6" (Berggasthof Pölzl)Destination / overnight stop: Kapfenberg, tourist information office, overnight accommodations: Tel.: +43 3862 26476, www.kapfenberg-tourismus.at

Cab services: Taxi Zentrale Tel.: +43 3862 42022, Express Taxi Tel.: +43 3862 57600, Taxi Gombotz Tel.: +43 3862 24990, Taxi Laresser Tel.: +43 3862 27227

GPS grid N 47° 26' 32,3" E 15° 17' 27,3"

 

Stage length: 24.7 kilometers

Total walking time (without breaks): 8 hours

Vertical meters ascent: 855 vertical meters

Meters of descent: 1,440 meters of ascent

Difficulties: long, but otherwise easy stage.

After a beautiful sunrise over the Mürztal we can start at GH Pölzl in the direction of Pogusch. Via the Töllamoaralm and the vast forests of the Mürztal mountains, we reach the Pogusch with the famous Stierereck inn and the Bründlweg trail after about 3 hours.

We follow this path for a short time and then branch off to the Zöberer Höhe.

From here, we descend through the hometown of world champion skier Liz Görgl to Kpafenberg with the Oberkapfenberg castle visible from afar.

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The tour in numbers

medium
Level of difficulty
25,2 km
Route
8:30 h
Time
900 hm
Uphill
1500 hm
Downhill
1476 m
Highest point
496 m
Lowest point

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A long, but never extremely strenuous or even difficult stage awaits us on the 12th BergZeitReise - tour day.

From Gasthof Pölzl we start over the old ski slope to the Töllamoaralm (managed on weekends) and then continue along the well-marked path (old designation "Winterwunderwanderweg") over the Knollalm (unmanaged) as well as the Schwabenberg (here the access from Turnau is added) to the Pogusch.

There we cross the main road at the well-known "Steirereck" inn and are now on the well-known Bründlweg.

This, especially on weekends, very popular hiking trail awaits us with numerous culinary stations, but we already leave this theme trail again at the Rührerberg.

Our tour leads us further west to the panoramic Zöberer Höhe.

There our path swings almost due south to reach, after a sometimes quite steep descent, the home of the double world champion in ski racing, Elisabeth Görgl, the sunny village of Parschlug.

Via the Töllergraben and the Hochschwab settlement, we now continue downhill to Kapfenberg, our next overnight stop.

On the Pogusch, the Steirereck inn was opened in 1996 and host Heinz Reitbauer , an authentic visionary, advanced to become the engine of the region. Around the Haubenlokal, by the way only one of numerous in the HOCHsteiermark, much was built up in recent years. Here in the heart of Hochsteiermark you will find romantic four-poster beds , playful bathrooms and a gastronomic variety. Whereby the culinary delicacies are local specialties. "Only regional and authentic" is the credo. One is particularly proud of this here at the Pogusch.

But of course also of the Bründlweg , a circular trail about 10 km long with several attractions, which was opened in 1999. One of them is the barefoot path, which is also reflected in the menu: "barefoot soup" and "toe cheese" are served. In addition, you drink a homemade elderberry-lime blossom juice or take a sip of the crystal-clear "Alm-Champagne", as the spring water is called here.

A particularly dreamy spot nearby is the Himmelreich Chapel, built in 1660. Since time immemorial, an old, three-trunked larch tree has stood on this spot, in which a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary was placed. When this statue was later transferred to a nearby farmhouse, the old larch is said to have begun to wither and an epidemic broke out in the area. The desperate population made a vow to build a wooden shrine against the plague and to place the statue there again. When this was done, the plague died out and the old larch began to grow green again. Later, a small wooden chapel was erected in place of the old one, and there was a great increase in its veneration as a place of grace. When the wooden chapel was finally replaced by a brick chapel, the old already rotten larch tree had to be removed.

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What the weather will be like

Turnau (756m)

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Early clouds will clear to leave the region with a dry and sunny day.
31.03.2024
sunny
7°C 18°C
01.04.2024
cloudy
6°C 18°C
02.04.2024
slightly cloudy
4°C 13°C

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