Patscha-Trail St. Kathrein am Offenegg

• We start at the hotel, walk forward to the municipal office and left down to the deer enclosure.
• At the deer enclosure, we turn sharp left into the "Eggerweg" and walk under the hotel until we reach the "St. Kathrein" place name sign and the chapel.
• We now go steeply down along the path to the "Oberlammbacher".
• Now walk a short distance up the asphalted road to Egg and on to Kogl and the district of Greith.
• At the crossroads to Greith, we keep to the right and walk along the "Unterer Weg" in the direction of Patscha-Sattel. We pass the Patscha hole, a cave steeped in legend.Go through the pasture (please also close the pasture gate again!) along the forest path to the rest area (table & benches & cross) "Am Sattel".
• We continue to the right along the stony path (with overpass) to the Predigtstuhl or Patscha-Nase, from here there is a magnificent view into the Passailer Kessel (right) and into the Weizklamm or Weiz (left), on a clear day you can see as far as Slovenia/Pacherngebirge.
• We take the same path back to the "Sattel" and from there follow the signs to "Patscha-Berg".
• The path goes steeply uphill to the summit cross (Patscha summit, 1,271 m), directly at the summit cross is the "stone altar", where a mountain mass is held every year. The boulder opposite has a peephole through which you can see the village of St. Kathrein with its church.
• We continue straight ahead to the "Festplatz", a meadow with seating.
• Through the pasture passage we continue to the forest road, which we walk along to the Patscha hut. Here you can stop for a break (open Fri - Sun).
• Continue left up the asphalt road to "Gschaid", at the chapel the road leads right up to Eibisberg, but we continue straight ahead for about 100 m and now turn right onto the signposted path to "Zeil".
• We walk along the forest road, over the Lammbach and further up until we continue to the left across the road ("Zeil"), past the Edelbrennerei Graf, the GH Spreitzhofer and the Sulamith garden, back to the centre of St. Kathrein.

For local transport we recommend the SAM-SammelTaxi.

There is a bus connection from Weiz to St. Kathrein with the number 205.

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Hiking map "Grazer Bergland - Schöckl - Teichalm - Stubenbergsee", freytag & berndt, 1:50 000, available in bookshops