From Peggau to the Tanneben plateau

Characteristics

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The tour in numbers

Level of difficulty medium

Route 15,2 km

Time 5:00 h

Uphill 500 hm

Downhill 500 hm

Highest point 873 m

From Peggau to Pöllau and back via the Badl gorge

If you enjoy being in the countryside but don’t want to deny your taste for adventure, this tour from Peggau to Pöllau and back is just the thing for you. It’s exciting for hikers of all ages and has so much in store for you to discover again and again.

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More information

Via the A9 coming from Graz or St. Michael (exit Peggau–Deutschfeistritz), or via the S35 (exit Peggau–Mitte).
Public car park in the Badl gorge (past the cement factory in the direction of the Lurgrotte Peggau grotto), or Park&Ride car park at Peggau–Deutschfeistritz railway station.

From Peggau railway station you first make for the Peggauer Wand rock face. It is a nature-protected area, one of the Natura 2000 regions, and its caves are habitat to endangered, strictly protected species such as bats. On trail no. 756 you wander upwards onto the Taschen, then in a northerly direction across the Tanneben plateau (trail no. 12), and west of the Möstl- and Bloderkogel hills back to Pöllau, where there are plenty of refreshment points for invigoration. Going back, take trail no. 13 across the Bass gorge and past the Mautbühl hill towards the Pöllau cement works, then onwards to Peggau–Deutschfeistritz railway station.

A variant is the romantic trail no. 750 through the Badl gorge. But caution! The route crosses the Badlbach stream, is slippery in some spots and is only suitable for the surefooted!

Solid shoes; rucksack contents should include first-aid kit, drinking flask, provisions, sun cream, rain and cold protection – and off you go! We recommend you take sufficient drinks and provisions with you, because there are no refreshment points along the route.

The Repolust cave north of Peggau in the Badl gorge contains the oldest traces of human existence in Austria. Vestiges of fire places are around 300,000 years old.

S1 trains between Graz and Bruck/Mur, railway station Peggau

More details on train and bus connections: www.verbundlinie.at and www.oebb.at

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