Marienpilgerweg 6th Stage: Maria Wörth - Maria Gail

Directions

From Maria Wörth, head west, cross the Wörthersee Süduferstraße road and after a few meters turn into the uphill Försterweg trail at Pension Haus Seekogel. Say goodbye to Lake Wörthersee with one last view before the path plunges into the shade of the forest. After around 2 km, at the Teixl cross, you come back to the blue-white-blue markings of the Wörthersee circular hiking trail, which the Marienpilgerweg follows on this day until shortly before Augsdorf. After barely an hour at the idyllically situated Trattnigteich pond, it is still too early for a break and so you stay on the path, which branches off to the right at Landgasthof Trattnig and leads straight back into the forest (Maria Wörth - Trattnigteich: 3 km). About 1.5 hours later, following the signs to Gasthof Weißes Rössl and Velden, you will have reached the village of Auen (Trattnigteich - Auen: 5 km). If you feel like taking a break, you can stop off here at Gasthof Erlenheim, which is located directly on the trail. About 200 m later, the path turns left. Walk a few steps along a stream, then keep right at an old, uninhabited house and walk along a forest path towards Augsdorf or Velden. Unexpectedly, the path leads into a torrent ditch. Here the Marienpilgerweg branches off to the south from the Wörthersee circular hiking trail, follows the course of the stream for a short distance, crosses it to the right at a wooden bridge and comes directly to the church of St. Mary Queen of the Rosary in Augsdorf (Auen - Augsdorf: 2.5 km). If you want to visit the church, don't hesitate to ring the bell at the vicarage.

From the church you come to the Keutschacher Landesstraße. Cross it to the right and after 20 m turn left into the country lane, which continues into the forest after a few meters and after another 500 m leads into the forest edge path. Here you turn left towards Selpritsch and walk along the garden fence of a detached house across a meadow before entering the forest again. After another kilometer, the path joins an asphalt road (Aicherstraße). Follow this road to the left and after just under 100 m turn right onto a meadow path that runs along the edge of the forest before turning left again into the forest a few meters later. Via the so-called Augsdorfer Waldweg and the Selpritsch road, you finally reach the village church directly (Augsdorf - Selpritsch: 3.3 km).

From Selpritsch, continue west along a meadow and forest path to the Rosegger Landesstraße, which you cross to the left to turn right into Lindner Straße on the opposite side. Follow this road and after about 200 m turn right again to the St. Lambrecht branch church. Now walk along Lindner Straße via Emmersdorf (Selpritsch - Emmersdorf: 2.2 km) to Bergl, where you turn left at a crossroads into Wudmather Weg, a gravel road, following the signs for the R1 cycle path. You soon reach the small village of Wudmath and go straight to the dam, then keep right and follow the cycle path west to the Drau bridge at Föderlach. (Emmersdorf - Draubrücke Föderlach: 4.6 km). Here you cross the river to the south and at the end of the bridge turn right along a narrow path into the village of Graschitz.

You cross the village, pass a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary and shortly afterwards reach the traffic circle in St. Niklas (intersection of the Grosssattel, Ribnig and Rosegger country roads). Leave the traffic circle to the right in the direction of Villach and walk along the busy road for around 800 m before turning left onto a slightly ascending woodland path. Keep right at the forks in the forest and after 1 km you reach another asphalt road. Here you turn right again and walk west along the Fuchsbichlweg via the villages of Kratschach and Serai to the Faaker See main road. Keep right here too and follow the footpath downhill. At the next bend, the forest suddenly opens up a view of the town of Villach and the entire Villach basin as far as the Dobratsch in the west. At the first regulated crossroads, cross the B 84 to the left and walk along Anton-Tuder-Straße to the Maria Gail pilgrimage church, the destination and spiritual and cultural-historical highlight of the day (Draubrücke Föderlach - Maria Gail: 7 km).

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