Nature Trail Stick & Stone (Stock & Stein) - short variant "Wine Experience Trail" - Touren-Impression #1 | © Gemeinde Bad Loipersdorf Nature Trail Stick & Stone (Stock & Stein) - short variant "Wine Experience Trail" - Touren-Impression #1 | © Gemeinde Bad Loipersdorf

Stick & Stone (Stock & Stein) - short variant "Wine Experience Trail"

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The hiking trail "Stock & Stein" leads leisurely over forest and meadow paths, past vineyards to attractive wine rest areas (self-service beverages available at all times).
Around Bad Loipersdorf there are a variety of hiking trails, with the new themed trail with the promising name "Wine Experience Trail" is the main route, which also consists of two sections. The shortest option is the circular hiking trail "Schritt & Tritt", which with about 9 km, is suitable for families and also strollers. The actual "Wine Experience Trail" is with about 17 km a large circular hiking trail in the region. This path is wonderfully suitable for an extended day hike. And last but not least, the "Stock & Stein" theme trail, described here in detail, which at approx. 11 km is the ideal combination of exercise and enjoyment. The path leads gently up and down through a softly shaped landscape, where meadows and wooded areas alternate and small-structured agricultural areas characterize the landscape. The "Wein-Rast-Platzln" (wine rest areas) at the Buschenschänken (wine taverns), which are self-service almost around the clock, invite you to take a break and enjoy regional products.

Characteristics

Skill
Fitness
Experience
Scenery

Best season

January
February
November
December

The tour in numbers

easy
Level of difficulty
10,7 km
Route
3:00 h
Time
200 hm
Uphill
198 hm
Downhill
366 m
Highest point
249 m
Lowest point

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More information

From Vienna: A2 to exit Ilz/Fürstenfeld.  From here via Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.

From Graz: A2 direction Vienna until exit Ilz/Fürstenfeld.  From here via the Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.

FROM WESTERN AUSTRIA AND BAVARIA

By car: via Salzburg on the Phyrn-Autobahn (A9) and the Süd-Autobahn (A2) or via Carinthia on the Süd-Autobahn (A2) to exit Ilz/Fürstenfeld.  From here via Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.

FROM ITALY OR SLOVENIA

By car: via Villach on the southern freeway (A2) to the Ilz - Fürstenfeld - Bad Loipersdorf exit or via Maribor on the Phyrn freeway (A9) and the southern freeway (A2) in the direction of Vienna to the Ilz/Fürstenfeld exit. From here via Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.

THERMENLANDBUS

The Thermenland bus runs three times a day on weekdays and once a day on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays between Vienna and the Loipersdorf spa resort.

 

Detailed information on how to get there can be found here.

 

The start is at the main entrance of the thermal spa Loipersdorf where you will also find the start and finish sign for the three wine experience trails. We walk in the direction of Hotel Stoiser and change the side of the road at the traffic circle. The path goes slightly uphill, past the Kropf thermal wine tavern and then immediately to the right to the Lautenberg thermal spring and the stone spiral. From now on we go through the forest past the crossroads and the information board of the Roman burial mounds until we reach an asphalt road. At the crossroads we see the entrance to the forest on the other side of the road. After walking a short distance through a deciduous forest, we come to a road, which we now follow slightly uphill to the houses. We branch off to the left, hike across cultivated areas and come to a suspended lounger, which invites us to rest and linger. Continue slightly downhill along forest paths and wooden stairs to the valley floor. At the former quarry we keep left and come to a pond where we find a wooden hut with a self-service possibility. The trail continues to the right along the valley floor on the asphalt road. At the crossroads we turn left, shortly after we leave the road and walk uphill across meadows and farmland to the Buschenschank Thurner. The Buschenschank Thurner is a "Wein-Rast-Platzl" with a hiking overview board and a self-service area. Up to here, the large circular hiking trail "Wein-Erlebnis-Weg" and the "Stock & Stein-Wanderweg" run parallel. We now turn right and follow the asphalt road continuously downhill until we reach the village of Stein. Once at the bottom of the valley, we keep to the right, pass the Stangl Wirt inn, and then continue to the left at the crossroads. The hiking trail now continues on asphalt roads along the valley floor until we branch off onto a dirt road and subsequently hike comfortably uphill. At a large wooden cross we go left and shortly reach a sparsely populated area. After reaching the road, we go uphill until we reach the VINO.TAKE (vinotheque) Kowald  and continue along a side road (Panoramaweg) and along a footpath back to the spa. The path over the power hill is a nice ending before we reach the starting point again.
An overview map with the refreshment stops and highlights is available at the starting point in front of the spa, so be sure to get it before you start.
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

 

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Free parking is available at the parking lot of the Loipersdorf Thermal Resort.
Tourist Information Thermen- & Vulkanland
Guest information Bad Loipersdorf
Thermenstraße 152
8282 Bad Loipersdorf
Phone: +43 3382 55 100-82
badloipersdorf@thermen-vulkanland.at
www.thermen-vulkanland.at

 

 

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What the weather will be like

Loipersdorf bei Fürstenfeld (246m)

Morning
sunny
9°C
0%
15 km/h
Noon
slightly cloudy
16°C
0%
25 km/h
Night
cloudy
11°C
40%
15 km/h
Partly sunny in the morning, gradually becoming cloudy in the afternoon.
Morning
sunny
7°C
0%
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.
30.03.2024
very sunny
8°C 24°C
31.03.2024
sunny
9°C 23°C
01.04.2024
slightly cloudy
9°C 23°C

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