Theme path Historic circular route Oberzeiring - Touren-Impression #1 | © Erlebnisregion Murtal Theme path Historic circular route Oberzeiring - Touren-Impression #1 | © Erlebnisregion Murtal

Historic circular route Oberzeiring

The historical circular route takes you through Oberzeiring and brings you closer to the history of the market town. The comprehensive brochure "Historischer Rundweg Oberzeiring" accompanies you on this route.
On a circular route, which takes 1 - 1.5 hours, you can learn more about Oberzeiring and the mining industry. You can find exact historical details in the brochure "Historischer Rundweg Oberzeiring", which you can buy at the tourist information office in Oberzeiring. This brochure also contains the exact route description.  Educational information about the past is presented to visitors at 14 stations and additional information can be accessed on the website using QR codes.

Characteristics

Skill
Fitness

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The tour in numbers

easy
Level of difficulty
2,3 km
Route
1:16 h
Time
27 hm
Uphill
29 hm
Downhill
940 m
Highest point

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Via the A2 south motorway from Vienna at Neunkirchen onto the S6 Semmering motorway B306 Kinderg - S6 Kapfenberg - B317 Judenburg towards Pöls - Katzling - Oberzeiring

Coming via Trieben Hohentauern, follow the road through St. Johann and Möderbrugg and take the Oberzeiring turn-off.

The circular route begins at the market square in Oberzeiring in the Murtal, where you will see several historic buildings such as the baker's house, the plague column, the town house, the square house, the merchant's house, the baker's house and the parish church of St Nicholas. The walk takes you past the Kellerhaus, the Hackenschmiede and the moated castle. During your walk, you will also visit the branch church of St. Elisabeth. The butcher's house is also on your way and you walk along the Norische Hauptstraße on historical paths. The Klingkeusche, the dyer's cross and the Kaßmühle town house tell their story on this hike, as do the nail smith's cross, the poorhouse and the old brewery. After this, you continue to the Messnerhaus schoolhouse and return to the old town hall.

The exact route description and all historical details about the buildings can be found in the brochure "Historischer Rundweg Oberzeiring" (available from the tourist office of the Erlebnisregion Murtal in Oberzeiring). Only in German!

"Historic circular route Oberzeiring" - available from the tourist information office in Oberzeiring
Oberzeiring can be reached directly by ÖBB buses.
Park on the church square behind the parish church of St Nicholas.
Murtal adventure region

Oberzeiring Mining Museum

In the Murtal region there are three free hiking maps that show the entire region with the Seetaler Alps, Seckauer-, Wölzer-, Rottenmanner Tauern, Stubalpe and the Pöls- and Murtal. The maps are in scale 1.50.000. "Historischer Rundweg Oberzeiring" - A guide through the Oberzeiring silver market by Walter Steiner and Stefan Benedik-Karner

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