Hiking route Fürstengräberweg Nr. 13 - Touren-Impression #1 | © TSüdsteiermark Hiking route Fürstengräberweg Nr. 13 - Touren-Impression #1 | © TSüdsteiermark

Fürstengräberweg Nr. 13

The hike to Burgstallkogel is "experienced history" a direct encounter with the monuments of a past that cannot be accessed through written sources. 
As early as the Hallstatt period (8th - 5th century BC), there was a settlementthere was a settlement here covering about 20 hectares. The finds from thispoint to the largest Hallstatt necropolis (= burial site) with aboutnecropolis (= burial site) in the eastern Alps.in the Eastern Alps. The area was continuously inhabited.

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Best season

January
February
November
December

The tour in numbers

easy
Level of difficulty
13,0 km
Route
4:00 h
Time
310 hm
Uphill
310 hm
Downhill
453 m
Highest point

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More information

Coming from the south, north, west and east on the A9 Phyrnautobahn - exit Leibnitz - continue in the direction of Kaindorf/S - Heimschuh - Großklein.
The hike begins at the Hallstatt Museum in Großklein, leads at the Steirerkeller inn along the Kirchsteig on municipal and forest paths towards Karberg and over the Lassenberg through a section of forest back down to Narrath. Past the Zitz wine farm (Siegl), you walk over the Saggaubach stream to Kleinklein. After a short stretch on the municipal path, the ascent begins on a forest path up to the Burgstallkogel/Grillkogel to the Hallstatt period farmstead, which provides a unique insight into the life of the people of our region in the Early Iron Age. From there, you get to Kleinklein on municipal paths, past the Ledinegg wine tavern, and back to the starting point along the little-used provincial road.
Visit the Hallstatt Museum and the Burgstallkogel farmstead.
We take the train to Kaindorf a. d. Sulm. www.oebb.atContinue by taxi to Großklein. T: 0043 (0)664 886 57 826
Parking spaces are available at the Hallstatt Museum and at the community and medical centre.
Tourist Office SüdsteiermarkHauptplatz 40A-8530 Deuschlandsberg

Office Kitzeck Tel.: +43 (0)3456 3500Office Leibnitz Tel.: +43 (0)345276811office@suedsteiermark.infowww.suedsteiermark.info 

Hiking map available at the information office or download here.

Moser Martin, 4. Auflage 2023: Steirisches Weinland, Schilcherland – Südsteiermark – Vulkanland. 55 Touren mit GPS-Tracks, Bergverlag Rother, München, S. 160

Günter und Luise Auferbauer, 2021: Wander-Erlebnis Süd- und West-Steiermark, 55 Ausflüge und Touren, Verlag Kral GmbH, Niederösterreich, S. 280

Gery Wolf, 2017: Steirisches WEIN Land, Verlagsgruppe Styria GmbH & Co KG, Graz, S. 144

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What the weather will be like

Großklein (296m)

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Rather sunny weather during the day with clouds mainly in the morning and towards the evening
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Rather cloudy in the morning, then sunny spells will develop gradually.
04.11.2024
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05.11.2024
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06.11.2024
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