Michleggweg

This hiking trail runs very close to the border with Bavaria, beautiful hike through the Michleggwald. Passable with a pram!

Markings: yellow aluminium signs and red-white-red colour markings on trees 

0 km  You start the hike at the Gemeindeamt Schwarzenberg or at the Hotel-Restaurant Bergkristall. Walk past the hotel on the left and reach a dirt track, which you follow for approx. 800 metres. Now turn left onto the forest path and you reach ...

1.4 km to the hermitage. Gregor Jungwirth built a hermitage around 1764. There, as "Frater Anton", he held devotions with the adults and taught the young people. Later (1784-86), he supervised the construction of the church in Schwarzenberg, the school and the vicarage. You walk along forest paths, always following the markings, through the mighty Michleggwald forest. Listen to the rushing of the Gegenbach stream and walk a short distance parallel to the Große Mühl river.

5.5 km Now leave the forest and the forest road and turn right onto the meadow path. When you reach the tarmac road, turn left, follow it and after approx. 400 m you will come to the road to Hinteranger. Continue on the right. After 600 metres, turn left onto the main road Klaffer - Bavarian border. Immediately afterwards, turn left again onto the forest path, which takes you through the Frauenholz 

9.9 km  You come to a farm track and continue along the tarmac road past the scattered settlement of Hinteranger. Before you enter the forest again, turn left and walk a short distance along the edge of the forest on a forest road. Leave this and take a meadow path into the ...

10.7 km marvellous Mariental. You hike a little uphill and after approx. 30 minutes you have reached the starting point in Schwarzenberg am Böhmerwald

12.1 km  

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