border crossing Remšnik - Sveti Urban (Radelca)
Starting point: border crossing Remšnik (735 m)
Lat/Lon: | 46,6523°N 15,3079°E |
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Time of walking: 1 h 15 min
Difficulty: easy marked way
Altitude difference: 185 m
Altitude difference po putu: 235 m
Map: Pohorje - izletniška karta 1:50.000
Recommended equipment (summer):
Recommended equipment (winter): ice axe, crampons
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Access to the starting point:
a) From Dravograd, drive towards Maribor, but only as far as the village of Vas, where you turn left towards Remšnik. Then climb up to the above-mentioned village, where shortly before the parish church of St. George, take a sharp left. Continue past the homesteads of Kajzar and Helbel, continuing along the right-hand road, and then past the homesteads of Prelank, where you go left, and Korenk, which you pass on the left-hand side. There are some more crossings, where you continue straight ahead at the crossroads. When you reach the state border, park at a suitable place on the roadside. The border crossing point Remšnik is a few 100 m further on.
b) From Maribor, drive towards Dravograd, but only as far as Brezno, where you turn right towards Brezni Vrh and Remšnik. At a higher point, leave the road towards Remšnik and continue straight towards Brezno Vrho. Just a few metres further on, bear slightly right, then pass the farmsteads of Hager, Podržavnik, Kompar, Breznik, where you turn left towards Austria, then a few more crossings and you reach the border crossing with Austria. Turn left here and drive for about 500 m to the next crossroads, where you can park at a suitable place.
Path description:
From the starting point, follow the footpath that branches off the road at the signpost for the state border. The path leads westwards and climbs through the forest and along the state border. A little further on, we get some views of the Slovenian side, and higher up, when the path leads us out of the forest, we get some views of the Austrian side. There is a shorter, steeper climb along the upper part of the meadow and we reach the Church of St Pancras.
From the church, continue westwards, then quickly pass the chapel and reach a marked crossroads, from which you continue left towards St. Urban and the settlement Remšnik (to the right is the Kapunerhütte hut and the Austrian trail to Kapunar).
The path continues along the Slovenian side of the border and crosses the slopes to the left. After a few minutes of crossing, we reach the Mravljak farm, where we continue straight on, then after the farm we continue down to the left and, with beautiful views, we follow the path cart track down to the macadam road, which we follow to the right. There is a short descent, then from the marked crossroads continue straight on towards Kapunar and Remšnik (left down Remšnik). There is a cross-country climb to a crossroads at the farm Zgornji Murn, where you turn sharp right. The road then gradually turns back to the left and within a few minutes leads to the Slanik farm, where it transversely lays. From the farm we continue for a short time with beautiful views over part of the Drava Valley and Pohorje, and then the road returns to the forest and leads us to the Church of St. Urban.
OMP Remšnik - St. Pancratius 0:25, St. Pancratius - St. Urban 0:50.
Description and pictures refer to the situation in 2018 (December).
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