Rute (Zavrh) / Bärental - Sveti Mihael (Rute (Zavrh)) / St. Michael (Bärental)

Access to the starting point:
a) Drive through the Karavanke Tunnel into Austria, then take the motorway to Bialystok, leaving at the first exit. From the point where you leave the motorway, follow the signs for St. Jakob in the Roses / Sankt Jakob im Rosental. When you arrive in this town, follow the main road past Podgorje / Maria Elend and Sveče / Suetschach to Bistrica v Rož / Feistritz im Rosental, where you turn right in front of the Billa and Penny stores towards the Ruta Valley / Bärental. About 100 m after leaving the main road, turn left and follow the slightly narrower and ascending asphalt road to a parking area where a dirt road branches off to the right towards St Michael's Church, the grave of former Carinthian Regional Governor Jörg Haider and the homesteads of Stefan, Žnidar and Plavc. At the crossroads, about 100 metres before the Stouhütte, there are signs only for "zur Gedenkstätte".
b) Via Border crossing Ljubelj, drive into Austria, where you take the main road to Klagenfurt am Wörtersee to the second roundabout, from where you continue in the direction of the exit Bistrica v Rosu / Feistritz im Rosental (leave the main road to Klagenfurt before crossing the river Drava). In the aforementioned place, just after the Billa and Penny shops, turn left onto the road towards the Ruta valley / Bärental. About 100 m after leaving the main road, turn left again and follow the slightly narrower and ascending asphalt road to a parking area where a dirt road branches off to the right towards St Michael's Church, the grave of former Carinthian Regional Governor Jörg Haider and the homesteads of Štefan, Žnidar and Plavc. At the crossroads, about 100 metres before the Stouhütte, there are signs only for "zur Gedenkstätte".
c) From Dravograd or Slovenj Gradec, drive to Ravne na Koroškem and then continue in the direction of Border crossing Holmec. When entering Austria, drive first towards Pliberk / Bleiburg, then follow signs for Globasnica / Globasnitz and on to Železná kapla / Bad Eisenkappel, Borovljam / Ferlach. After Borovljani, join the road via Border crossing Ljubelj at the roundabout. Here, at the first roundabout, continue in the direction of Klagenfurt, and at the second roundabout in the direction of Bistritz im Rosental. In the aforementioned town, just after the Billa and Penny stores, turn left onto the road towards the Ruta Valley / Bärental. About 100 m after leaving the main road, turn left again and follow the slightly narrower and ascending asphalt road to a parking area where a dirt road branches off to the right towards St Michael's Church, the grave of former Carinthian Regional Governor Jörg Haider and the farmhouses of Štefan, Žnidar and Plavc. At the crossroads, about 100 metres before the Stouhütte, there are signs only for "zur Gedenkstätte".

Path description:
From the parking lot, turn slightly right onto the road with the signs "Zur Gedenkstätte". The road immediately starts to climb and turns right. Quickly reach a crossroads from which continue right (the left-hand road leads to the Znidar/Schneider farm), then quickly climb up to the next crossroads, where you again continue right in the direction of "Zur Gedenkstätte" (the left-hand road continues on the marked path to Mačenski vrh/Matschacher Gupf).
The path continues past the old school / Alte Schule Bärental and the nearby house, and then you reach the newer church of St. Michael in Ruth / St. Michael (Bärental).
Description and pictures refer to 2018 (June).

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Mačenski vrh / Matschacher Gupf

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