Hiking route Stage 28 From Glacier to Wine North Route Hartberg - Bad Waltersdorf - Touren-Impression #1 | © TV Bad Waltersdorf/Bernhard Bergmann Hiking route Stage 28 From Glacier to Wine North Route Hartberg - Bad Waltersdorf - Touren-Impression #1 | © TV Bad Waltersdorf/Bernhard Bergmann

Stage 28 From Glacier to Wine North Route Hartberg - Bad Waltersdorf

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This stage of the hiking route "From Glacier to Wine" leads from the historic old town of Hartberg with its idyllic location at the foot of the Ringkogel with its vineyards to Bad Waltersdorf, the 2-spa region in the Thermen- & Vulkanland of Styria. Right at the beginning the tour goes through the Natura 2000 Europe protected area Hartberger Gmoos on the outskirts of Hartberg. Then the route leads us through shady forests, across meadows and along fertile fields into the charming town of Bad Waltersdorf. In between, on the ridge of the Burgstall, a distant view of the Koralm and Gleinalm opens up to us on nice days.
The 2-spa region of Bad Waltersdorf with the H2O Therme and the Heiltherme was already one of the most popular summer resorts in Austria in the 50s of the last century. The picturesque hilly landscape and the thermal water spring found during oil drilling in 1975 still represent a valuable treasure today. This valuable asset of nature is now known and loved beyond the borders of Austria. As many as 1.9 million liters of healing thermal water rise to the surface every day, providing visitors to the two spas with strength and well-being, as well as plenty of fun. While the Heiltherme Bad Waltersdorf with its 25,000 square meters of wellness landscape looks after the well-being of those seeking rest and relaxation, the H2O Erlebnistherme Sebersdorf has bubbly and lively water attractions for the whole family.

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Skill
Fitness
Experience
Scenery

Best season

January
February
March
December

The tour in numbers

easy
Level of difficulty
18,0 km
Route
5:30 h
Time
300 hm
Uphill
360 hm
Downhill
455 m
Highest point
289 m
Lowest point

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We start at the beautiful main square of Hartberg and walk along Kirchengasse to Kernstockplatz, where we turn left and walk along Johann-Zechner-Gasse to the Natura 2000 Europe protected area Hartberger Gmoos. The 70 hectare wetland with its approximately 150 bird species has a varied history. Before it was declared a nature and European protected area, a large lake existed here centuries ago, which should have given way to a bathing lake or possible hall in the last century. Today the Hartberger Gmoss is a popular recreation area and resting place for numerous animal and plant species, as only a few cities can boast. At the end of the Hartberger Gmoss we turn right to reach the Josef Hallamyr Straße via the Safenauer Straße, where we keep left.

We are now on the East Austrian Borderland Trail 07, which we follow to Bad Waltersdorf, our destination for this stage on the hiking route "From Glacier to Wine". After the district of Neusafenau, we keep diagonally left and now hike the next kilometers through a beautiful, shady forest, which is especially welcome on hot days in summer. After this comfortable forest hike we pass some fields and farms and reach the small village of Oberbuch. At the end of the village we keep to the left in order to pass under the southern freeway and enter a wooded area again. Short forest sections and sections past fields now alternate on our ascent towards St. Magdalena am Lemberg. On this part of the trail we almost always walk along the edge of a linden forest on the ridge of the mountain until we reach the top of the Burgstall. Shortly before St. Magdalena we reach the Mantschenkreuz, whose place offers us an impressive panoramic view of Hartberg and the mountains of eastern Styria such as Kulm, Masenberg or Wechsel.

Through the varied landscape with views in between of the hilltops and volcanic cones of the thermal and volcanic country around Bad Gleichenberg and Straden we hike to the Wagerbergberg northeast of Bad Waltersdorf with the H2O Therme and the Heiltherme. From here there is a comfortable descent into the beautiful center of Bad Waltersdorf with its spa park, which is home to a romantic pond and various herb gardens and is a true place of well-being. This stage with views of the hilly country around the thermal baths in southeastern Austria is already a foretaste of the next stage, which brings us to Fürstenfeld.

In the Thermen- & Vulkanland region of Styria, Eastern Styria and Southern and Western Styria, the GenussCard opens the door to over 200 excursion destinations when you stay overnight in one of the approximately 100 GenussCard partner establishments. Countless of these GenussCard excursion destinations, ranging from culinary manufactories to bathing lakes and museums, are located directly on the hiking route "From Glacier to Wine".

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

On the outskirts of the city at the HERZ Hartberg Recreation and Leisure Center in the immediate vicinity of the Natura 2000 Europe protected area Hartberger Gmoos there are numerous parking spaces available.

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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What the weather will be like

Bad Waltersdorf (291m)

Morning
sunny
6°C
5%
5 km/h
Noon
slightly cloudy
19°C
0%
25 km/h
Night
slightly cloudy
16°C
0%
20 km/h
Dry and partly sunny throughout the day, with cloudy periods from time to time.
Morning
sunny
10°C
0%
5 km/h
Noon
very sunny
23°C
0%
20 km/h
Night
very sunny
19°C
0%
15 km/h
Some clouds in the morning, lateron much sunshine and hardly any clouds
31.03.2024
sunny
8°C 23°C
01.04.2024
cloudy
8°C 23°C
02.04.2024
sunny
6°C 18°C
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