Borovlje / Ferlach - St. Anna (Matzen)

Access to starting point:
Via the Ljubelj border crossing we drive into Austria, and then we drive on the main road towards Celovec / Klagenfurt, but only to the settlement Podljubelj / Unterloibl, where we continue right towards the Hofer store and the police. Further down, we arrive in Borovlje / Ferlach, where we cross a railway track, and a little further we go right towards the settlement Bajdiše / Waidisch. The path ahead leads us past the Eurospar store, and we follow the main road to the settlement Dolje / Doliach (the settlement is located in Borovlje), where we turn left towards the nearby cemetery, to which we arrive after a few hundred meters of additional driving and where we park on a large parking lot.

Route description:
From the cemetery we return on the road to the church in Dolje, where we notice the first yellow mountain signposts for Macna / Matzen, which point us to a side road that continues towards the east. The road ends at the last houses, and we continue on a marked footpath that lightly descends to Bajdiška Borovnica / Waidischbach stream, and then for a short time continues parallel to the stream. A little lower over a longer wooden bridge we cross the stream, and on the other side we follow the blazes to a macadam road, which we follow to the left. The road quickly brings us to a smaller intersection, where we go sharply right, a little after the nearby barrier we go left onto a marked footpath, which brings us to another road. Once again we go right, and then the blazes lead us onto a forest footpath, which first moderately ascends, higher steeply, meanwhile crossing a few cart tracks. After a smaller spring we also cross a fence, and then the path flattens and a little further we arrive at the former farm Korenjak, which is situated in the village Rute / Rauth.
From the farm, where there still stands a well-maintained house with the year 1490, we continue on the macadam road, which a little higher brings us to a partly abandoned holiday cottage, after which the path goes left from the road. After a short ascent we quickly join another road, which we follow to the right, and right below us we notice a smaller lake.
We walk along the road to the nearby intersection, where we only cross a somewhat wider macadam road, and then continue the ascent on the mountain path, which higher crosses the macadam road a few more times. At an altitude of approximately 1120 m we step onto the road once again, where there stand a chapel and a cross, a few steps to the left at the small cottage where an emergency bivouac is arranged, from the viewpoint a nice view opens towards the west, where we see the Karawanks, Drava valley, and with good visibility the view reaches all the way to the Julian Alps and Gailtal Alps.
At the chapel we leave the road again, which a little further we cross for the last time. A little higher we reach a cart track, which we follow to the left, but it soon ends, and we continue ascending on a steep path that leads through the forest. Higher we temporarily reach the northeastern ridge of Macna, from which the path soon withdraws a little to the right. A few minutes higher when we reach the ridge again, past a larger chapel we quickly arrive at the church of St. Anna, from which a nice view also opens towards the east.
Borovlje - Korenjak 1:20, Korenjak - bivouac 1:00, bivouac - St. Anna 1:10.
Description and pictures refer to the condition in 2019 (May).

Along the route: Rute / Rauth (Korenjak) (780m), Bivak (1120m)

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Matzen ( 30 min)

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