Zirknitz: Nature Trails, Local Flavors and Culture

The St. Stefaner Orchard Trail leads to Zirknitz and gives your stay a clear connection to the landscape. Other highlights include beer and honey tastings, regional cuisine, history, and horseback riding. You can tailor your trip to a specific focus: landscapes and tours, regional products, or culture.

Trail and landscape

The St. Stefaner Orchard Trail passes through forests and meadows, by apple trees, and then reaches Zirknitz. The trail is hilly, with a pleasant alternation of forest and meadow, and seven stops are provided for breaks. From Zirknitz, the route continues through Mitterzirknitz to Puxhof. The sequence of landscapes and the rest stops give the trail a distinctive character. When planning, you can take into account both the change between forest and meadow and the named places along the route.

The GenussSchilchern DA - Zirknitz offers a different kind of experience. This moderately difficult tour is 16.1 kilometers long and is listed as taking five hours. It starts in Sankt Stefan ob Stainz and can be reached by public transport. The St. Stefaner Orchard Trail focuses on landscapes and rest stops, while the GenussSchilchern DA - Zirknitz has a defined tour profile in terms of length, duration, and difficulty. This lets you compare the options based on the information that matters to your plans: changing landscapes and rest stops, or route length, time, and access by public transport.

Tastings and regional cuisine

The St. Stefaner private brewery at Hausmi Hof offers tours and tastings by prior arrangement by phone. It has been brewing its own beer since September 2012. At a tasting, you can sample the distinctive “Reinischkogler beer.” Before your visit, check whether this tasting is currently available and ask about it specifically when arranging your visit by phone.

The Klug beekeeping business offers tastings of honey varieties from the Schilcherland; it also has a wide selection of award-winning honeys. Beer and honey offer different regional flavors, providing two distinct tasting experiences.

At the Der Krainerhof Buschenschank, you can enjoy a Styrian Buschenschank platter featuring house-made meat and a variety of salads. Homemade fruit juices round out the menu. There is also a petting zoo and a playground for children. As opening arrangements may change, check the current conditions before your visit.

Culture and activities

The Marienkapelle Zirknitzberg was built between 1819 and 1823. Alongside landscapes and local flavors, it adds a precisely dated historical point of interest to your trip planning.

Riding lessons are available at Westernreithof Stricker; trail rides are offered on request. If you would like to plan either activity, make arrangements before your visit. Trail rides specifically require a request, so be sure to ask about this option when you get in touch.

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