Bleiberg Kreuth (Wurzach) - Dobratsch / Dobrač

Access to starting point:
Over the border crossing Korensko sedlo we descend in Austria and when we reach the main road Trbiž / Tarvisio - Beljak / Villach, we continue left towards Trbiž. We follow the main road to the settlement Ziljica / Gailitz, and there at the roundabout, we go on the road towards the settlement Šmohor / Hermagor. From the roundabout we are driving on the road towards Šmohor approximately 11 km, and then signs for Plajberk pri Beljaku / Bad Bleiberg point us to the left. Further, we drive through the underpass and the road brings us in the center of the settlement Čajna / Nötsch im Gailtal, from there we continue driving towards Plajberk pri Beljaku. Further, we drive on an ascending road, on which past a quarry we quickly get to the settlement Bleiberg Kreuth. By road signs settlement ends, and after few 100 meters again starts. When we second time drive into Bleiberg Kreuth, we will only few meters behind the road sign, more precisely opposite of entrance into a mine and just before the bus stop, turn right towards the hamlet Wurzach (on a sign Wurzach 895 meters and signs for Dobrač / Dobratch). We drive into the mentioned village and before purple house we turn right, and then at the house with number 14 left. Further, we drive past few more houses, and then at the next crossroad we continue straight (slightly right). Only a little after "last" house in the village, we get to a gate, which is preventing further driving. We park at the appropriate place few meters before the gate.

Path description:
Right in front of a gate signs for saddle Tor and the peak Dobrač point us to the left on a footpath which ascends through a lane of a forest. After few minutes of the ascent, we return on the road, on which we for some time continue the ascent. At first, a view opens up a little on the old mining valley and ridge Erzberg, and then the road turns slightly right and by indistinct valley brings us to a smaller well. Here we leave the road and we continue the ascent on a footpath which is moderately ascending by a well, after that a little before the saddle Tor crosses a road on which we were for some time ascending.
We continue over swampy clearing, where by its upper edge we run into a nicely settled trough with water. We continue in the forest, through which we are for quite some time gently ascending, and in doing so most of the time we cross the slopes towards the right. Higher, we cross a torrent gully and only a little higher also a bad forest road, and then we join the marked path from Rute / Hermsberg.
The path ahead starts steeply ascending, and occasionally nice views start opening up on the valley Gailtal and Gailtal Alps. Higher, the path flattens and crosses slopes towards the right. Further, we cross also a grazing fence, and the path few minutes and then it brings us to a smaller unmarked crossing, where unmarked footpath branches off to the right towards the nearby hunting cottage, and we continue slightly left, on the path which starts ascending steeper in zig-zags. During the ascent forest starts to get thinner, and pretty steep path brings us into a lane of dwarf pines, where it turns right and gradually flattens. We continue the ascent on an increasingly panoramic path (a view on Mangart, Jalovec, Kanin, Viš, Montaž, valley Gailtal, Gailtal Alps...), which mostly crosses slopes towards the right. The path ahead leads us through some gullies, which in the early summer can still be under the snow, and again steeper path brings us on a side ridge of Dobrač, where there stands a smaller cross.
When we reach the ridge, we go left and we continue the ascent on at first moderately steep, and higher very steep path, which in the upper part also crosses some very steep slopes, where mainly in wet is dangerous for slipping.
When we diagonally ascend on a steep slope, in front of us we already notice Slovenian church on Dobrač, to which we have only few steps.
From the church in few steps we walk also on the nearby peak, and from there we can in few minutes get also to German church and mountain hut Ludwig Walter-Haus.

On the way: Tor (1140m)