Graz Center West - Fürstenstand (Plabutsch) (via Buchkogel)
Starting point: Graz Center West (352 m)
Starting point Lat/Lon: 47.03339°N 15.4151°E 
Path name: via Buchkogel
Time of walking: 4 h
Difficulty: easy marked way
Difficulty of skiing: no data
Altitude difference: 402 m
Altitude difference (by path): 635 m
Map: Graz und Umgebung, Wanderkarte 1:50.000, WK 133 ali https://www.bergfex.at
Access to starting point:
Highway Maribor - Graz (A9) we leave at exit Graz, then at the roundabout, we choose 1st exit in the direction of St. Peter / Puntigam / Center West. At the next traffic light crossroad we turn left and immediately after this again left. We drive to the last building of shopping center, where we park.
Path description:
We continue on the road, left from the parking lot, past the last building of the shopping center Center West. After approximately 50 meters we leave the road and we turn left on a footpath which further leads left by tennis courts to the underpass. We go through the underpass, then right to the traffic light. At the back we see the hill Buchkogel. We cross a road. We continue straight on street in the direction of the mentioned hill. At all crossroads we go straight. In between we pass secured railway passage. We cross the traffic light crossroad. On the other side, we go at first left and after this immediately right. At the end of the street we turn into the forest on a steep, marked forest path. In 10 minutes we get to the parking lot. From the parking lot, we notice the church, to which we come on stairs or on the road. At the church, we turn right and we continue straight on the road steep uphill. Before the gate signposts point us to the left in the forest. At the next crossings we stick to the right, on a marked mountain path. When we step on a wider forest cart track, we continue straight in the direction of "Rudolfswarte". In the next two crossings we stick to the left, in doing so we leave the marked mountain path (because in the summer time it is quite overgrown). Then we two more times cross the road. On the east ridge we get to the top of the hill Buchkogel. We continue right by the tower slightly downwards. At the next two crossings we continue straight and on the path "Buchkogelsteig" we steeply descend and we get to a wider macadam path. On the path by the fence, which marks military area, we continue straight, until we get to the inn below the church of Sankt Johann and Paul. On the macadam road, we slightly descend and after 200 meters we turn right in the forest, where blazes lead steeply downwards to the main road. We go left and after 200 meters, at the crossroad we turn right in the direction "Thal". We follow the road straight and after approximately 500 meters we turn right in the direction "Fürstenstand". At first asphalt road passes into a macadam road which we follow to a crossing. We go left. When we get to an asphalt road, we turn left. The road after 4 km brings us to the peak.
On the way: Sv. Martin (Gradec) / St. Martin (Graz) (411m), Buchkogel (Rudolfswarte) (659m), Sv. Janez in Pavel / St. Johann und Paul (563m)
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