Steep step path - small round

Path to the steep steps of the Schwarzenberg alluvial canal in the Mühlviertel.


There is also a long version of the steep steps trail:
Trail no. 78
5 hrs / 16.5 km/ 410 m

0 km  You start the hike at the car park in the centre of St. Oswald bei Haslach. Leave the village in an easterly direction and walk along the field path towards the forest. Meet up with Steilstufenweg trail no. 78 coming from Haslach. Downhill through the short section of forest. Now you come to the impressive ...

1.2 km ... steep section of the Schwarzenberg alluvial canal - the "Steilstufe". With a thunderous roar, the logs tumbled down the riverbed lined with granite blocks during the snowmelt. It was one of the most dangerous places for the panners who worked here when the logs were washed down. If the timber became wedged here, the following logs were often hurled metres into the air.
On the right you will see an old boundary stone, which was set during the mapping and demarcation of the border under
Joseph II in 1788. Uphill, on a 600 m long stretch, you follow the magnificent construction of the century. At the ...

2.0 km rest area, the "Steilstufenweg Große Runde", which leads to Haslach, leaves us. However, we continue uphill through the forest and reach the ...

3.2 km border crossing at St. Oswald. Here you will see the "Connect it" sculpture. You do not cross the border and continue left. Past the former customs house. Now it's always downhill. At the ...

3.7 km Galgenberg turn right down the path, back to the ...

4.3 km to the starting point in St. Oswald bei Haslach.

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