Hiking route Circular hike over the Pöllauberg, Muhr Pöllauberg - Touren-Impression #1 | © Oststeiermark Tourismus Hiking route Circular hike over the Pöllauberg, Muhr Pöllauberg - Touren-Impression #1 | © Oststeiermark Tourismus

Circular hike over the Pöllauberg, Muhr Pöllauberg

This hike takes us from ****Hotel Muhr to Pöllauberg and back.
We hike from Hotel Muhr to Pöllauberg, the flower and garden village with the high Gothic Marian pilgrimage church, and then on to Pöllau with the "Styrian St Peter's Cathedral" as a spiritual and cultural finale.

If we want to return to the starting point of our hike - the Hotel Muhr - we simply call SAM - the shared taxi in Eastern Styria - on +43 50 363738 (waiting time one hour).

SAM stops: Pöllauberg Ort (HF 5809), Waldhof Muhr (HF 5842)

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The tour in numbers

medium
Level of difficulty
13,6 km
Route
4:30 h
Time
430 hm
Uphill
430 hm
Downhill
994 m
Highest point

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Pöllauberg, Hotel Muhr 
Hotel Muhr - Höhenweg - Pöllauberg
  • Starting from the Hotel Muhr, we walk along the access road in a southerly direction until we come to a dirt track that leads away from the municipal road to the left into the forest. Following the markings, we reach the "Panoramablick" viewpoint.
  • Here we keep left again and reach the municipal road via the high-level path towards Masenberg. Now we walk downhill towards Pöllau until we reach the crossroads to the farms of the Harb, Maierhofer and Schweighofer families and turn in their direction.
  • Between the Maierhofer family home and stables, the marked hiking trail leads us along nature trails and paths to the Gleichweit family farm, where we continue along the municipal road until shortly before the Grabner family farm. Here we take two sharp left turns in quick succession and continue through forests and past fields and meadows to the Pöllauberg - Masenberg country road. We keep to the right and immediately come to the crossroads via which we reach the place of pilgrimage.

Pöllauberg - Dorfhansl - Höhenweg - Hotel Muhr

  • We leave the village as we came and return to the main road, but now follow the signposts towards Masenberg on the right into the forest until we reach the junction with the main road.
  • We cross the road and follow the Schmalzgruberweg to the next signpost, where we turn right and follow the red-white-red signpost no. 942 uphill. At the next very clear signpost, we keep left and reach the Dorfhanslkapelle chapel.
  • Here we meet the markings for the forest nature trail (long version, blue dot), which we follow to the starting point at Waldhof Muhr.
The Berggasthof König and the Gasthof "Zum Jagawirt", run by the Goger family, are ideal places to stop for refreshments on this hike.
Timetables and travel information can be found at Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB) or at Verkehrsauskunft Verbundlinie.

For local transport we recommend the SAM-Sammeltaxi Oststeiermark. HF5842 Zeil-Pöllau - Hotel Muhr am Pöllauberg

Pöllauberg, Hotel Muhr
Information about the region, places to stop for refreshments and overnight accommodation, excursion destinations etc. can be found here:

Eastern Styria Tourist Board

Nature Park Pöllauer Valley office

Schloss 1

8225 Pöllau, Austria 

Tel.: +4333354210

www.naturpark-poellauertal.at 

www.oststeiermark.com 

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Mobility Eastern Styria with shared taxi SAM

Kompass Karte, Wanderkarte Naturpark Pöllauer Tal 1:30.000

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Tourismusverband Oststeiermark Geschäftsstelle Naturpark Pöllauer Tal Schloss 1, 8225 Pöllau Tel: +43 3335 4210   www.naturpark-poellauertal.at www.oststeiermark.com

Rother hiking guide "Oststeiermark - Von den Fischbacher Alpen bis in die Thermenregion", 50 tours, Elisabeth Zienitzer & Silvia Sarcletti paperback, ISBN-10, 376334577 available in bookshops

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Spiegelsee Reiteralm | © photo-austria / Christine Höflehner

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