Etappe 10: BergZeitReise Pretul - Alpl - Fischbach
OpenWe start at the Rosegger - Schutzhaus and always orient ourselves by the windmills, which accompany us on the first part of our way. At Hauereck, at the shelter of the same name, we continue to Alpl in the heart of Peter Rosegger's forest home.
Of course we will visit the Rosegger sites around the Alpl, such as the idyllic forest school, which the poet once had built especially for the peasant children on the Alpl.
Past the Teufelstein, one of the strangest peaks in Styria, we then head downhill to the picturesque village of Fischbach at exactly 1,000m above sea level.
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But one after the other.
At the beginning we hike through the Pretul wind park to the Hauereck with the shelter of the same name. There we follow the wide forest path to the so-called "Red Cross", a shrine standing in the middle of the forest with a striking red paint job.
Via the Kathreiner Alm, which is hardly recognizable as such anymore, and the Steinbachhöhe we then come to the Alpl and thus to the center of Peter Rosegger's forest home.
At the forest school (information boards) the short ascent begins to the Kluppeneggerhof, the beautifully situated home farm of Peter Rosegger (museum).
Just above the farm building, our path runs downhill again via the Schmidhofer farmstead to the Lent(d) Cross.
At this historical memorial, our path continues over a narrow stream in a southerly direction on wide and well-marked forest paths, always slightly downhill to Fischbach.
The Pretul , whose name is probably of Slavic origin and means something like border mountain, served after World War II as a smuggler's crossing to bring the agricultural products of Joglland to the bombed-out industrial towns of the Mürztal.
Not far from the Rosegger Schutzhaus, the Peter Bergner Warte commemorates the former innkeeper of the hut, who was the victim of a robbery-murder. The house itself, built in 1900 on the initiative of Toni Schruf, is named after the great Styrian regional poet Peter Rosegger.
When in 1529 the Turks advanced over the Semmering into the Mürztal, a horde is said to have advanced over Krieglach following the Alpsteig also against St. Kathrein am Hauenstein. The inhabitants, who were informed of the enemy's advance in good time by fire signals from the mountains, built a mighty stone rampart on the top of the pass, which is still called the "Turks' Redoubt" today. There the Turks were stopped abruptly, seeing only a large wide "sea" (the fog-shrouded Mürztal) in front of them. Saint Catherine from the Hauenstein parish church had rushed to the aid of the pious inhabitants and blinded the Turks, who took flight. Even today, at this place, a stone is said to show two depressions, supposedly the footprints of the saints.
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