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Roman Trail, Gleisdorf

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The Roman Trail takes you through Gleisdorf for around an hour and a half and shows you important sites from Roman times.

The starting point for the tour is the Gleisdorf wave pool. The boards guide you in a self-explanatory manner through the former Roman settlement, which was, by the way, the second largest Roman settlement in Styria. QR codes on the boards provide further information.

Seven Roman tablets reveal more about the Vicus, the Gleisdorf settlement in Roman times. This was a planned settlement - probably from the 1st - 3rd centuries. Century - with political administration and religious center and is comparable to a market today. Archaeologist Wolfmayr and city historian Rosenberger talked, among other things, about plans for a railway that would have run through today's wave pool area or about the Gleisdorf amphitheater, which had space for several 100 people and where animal baiting and gladiator fights took place (in the area of ​​the fire department/XXX Lutz). Or did you know that a nature reserve was created behind today's B54 federal highway through former clay mining?

Characteristics

Skill
Fitness
Experience
Scenery

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The tour in numbers

easy
Level of difficulty
2,6 km
Route
1:30 h
Time
15 hm
Uphill
15 hm
Downhill
371 m
Highest point
352 m
Lowest point

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The circular route route begins at the swimming pool parking lot, leads behind the pool to the Hartbergersiedlung, past the fire department, into Ziegelgasse, past the Gleisdorf car dealership. At the end of the alley, we turn left towards Weizer Straße and finally we end up at the Kulturkeller and the cemetery, where we walk through to Ludwig-Binder-Straße, then we turn right towards Hofer store and at the Palmers store we turn left into Franz-Perl-Straße. We keep left there and then turn left again into Ledererweg directly at the Fritz car dealership. We end up back on Ludwig-Binder-Straße, turn right towards the Red Cross and past the former Römerhof, where the BKS parking lot with another sign is now located, and come back to the Gleisdorf swimming pool. This short walk (duration approx. 1.5 hours) through the city makes Roman life and the expansion of the settlement tangible. Not only does the existence of an amphitheater show the extent of the settlement at that time, the spread of the finds in the urban area also proves this.

I) Scattered finds
II) Amphitheater
III) Graves Street
IV) Settlement remains
V) Gleisdorf in Roman times
VI) Geography
VII) Römerhof

The Gleisdorf wave pool, with its 5 pools and the wave pool that gives it its name, is the ideal place for rest and relaxation after the hike.

Timetables and travel information can be found on the Austrian Federal Railway website or under Transport Information for the Verbundlinie.

For local transport we recommend the SAM shared taxi East Styria. Please reserve in good time!

There are parking spaces directly at the Gleisdorf wave pool.

All information about the region, the places to stop and stay overnight and the excursion destinations can be found at

Eastern Styria Tourism
Association Gleisdorf office
Rathausplatz 1
8200 Gleisdorf
Tel.: +43 3112 2601 400
Email: gleisdorf@oststeiermark.com

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What the weather will be like

Gleisdorf (362m)

Morning
very sunny
7°C
0%
5 km/h
Noon
very sunny
18°C
0%
15 km/h
Night
very sunny
15°C
5%
10 km/h
Dry and sunny throughout the day with hardly any clouds.
Morning
very sunny
11°C
0%
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Noon
sunny
21°C
0%
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Night
sunny
18°C
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The day starts sunny, but will be partly cloudy in the afternoon.
29.04.2024
sunny
8°C 25°C
30.04.2024
very sunny
9°C 25°C
01.05.2024
slightly cloudy
10°C 23°C
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