Small Stössing circular hiking route

On the way from Stössing to the Seminarhotel Refugium Hochstrass, we already encounter several trail crosses and chapels. Upon reaching the hotel, the buildings and traces in the landscape recall the once lively time of this place. Generations of young women were extensively trained here in the agricultural domestic science school of the Christian order of the Daughters of Divine Love. The former monastery was also of great economic, cultural, and medical importance for the surrounding area. In addition to the Stations of the Cross and the monastery cemetery, a visit to the historic cheese dairy can be arranged by appointment. Our further route leads over extensive meadows and a ridge to the Hegerberg. After wonderful views and good home-style cooking, we return via the new Hegerberg road and a subsequent forest area back to Stössing.

Municipality of Stössing 3073 Stössing 7

Popis trasy Small Stössing circular hiking route

The small Stössing circular hiking route starts in the town center at the municipal office in Stössing. The path leads us from the town square by the fountain on the Landeshauptstraße towards Brand-Laaben, after about 300 m we turn right towards Stollberg, the road runs along the Buchbach, we pass 3 trail crosses. Shortly before the turnoff to the Seminarhotel Refugium Hochstrass, we go uphill over an inconspicuous meadow path – up to an orchard alley and thus reach the Atzinger estate. Here we march past below and come via the farm driveway to the Reifbach farm road – the Klosterstraße. This leads us in switchbacks up to the Seminarhotel Refugium Hochstrass, over two more switchbacks to the Siedl estate and then, now already on a gravel road, to the exposed “Ecker” house, a former farmstead. Slightly uphill along the meadow ridge, our path leads into a hollow way that takes us northward to a wooded elevation. Keeping the path, we now hike straight through the Hegerberg saddle to the elevation and thus up to the Johann Enzinger shelter. After enjoying hearty home-style cooking, we take the return route via the Stössing Hegerberg road. Passing the Oberhegerberger farm, we enter a beech wood, where after a trail cross we leave the road to the left and shorten the way via a forest path. Back on the asphalt road, after about 800 m we descend to the Hendlgraben. From there it is about 10 minutes downstream on the Landeshauptstraße back to our starting point.