BERNSTEIN TRAIL East route | Stage 10 | Rechnitz - Deutsch Schützen-Bergen

You start your stage from Rechnitz to Deutsch Schützen-Bergen at the church in the center of Rechnitz. From there, you walk a few meters down to the intersection and turn right towards Markt Neuhodis. Shortly before the town end, turn diagonally left onto an asphalted service road, the “Prangerweg”. At the last houses, turn right and immediately left onto a field path. Now through fields up to a field edge and just behind it turn left onto another field path. You walk this along pleasant field edges to its end, then turn right. Continue always on field paths, at each next intersection turning left, then right, then left again, and continue to the underpass of the main road. Now you have successfully completed the labyrinth of field paths in the first section! But no worries: the signposting guides you well. You walk under the underpass, follow the small street to the right, and continue, always following the road, until you reach the small village of Dürnbach.

At the church turn left and keep going until a larger road crosses near the town end. Here turn right and after 150 m turn left again onto a service road. The service road soon becomes a field path, which you follow along the field groves. At the first small bridge, do not forget to switch to the left side of the field edge. This way, you reach a smaller asphalt road leading from Schandorf to Hannersdorf. Follow this for about 200 m uphill to the right. Now turn left onto another field path and follow it – with a slight right-left swing, always straight ahead – to a main road shortly before the village of Burg. Here turn diagonally right onto the main road and after about 300 m turn right into the village of Burg.

Parallel to the federal road, go left through the village and on a paved path up to the federal road. Now about 400 m uphill along the road to a long right curve, where a forest road branches off to the left. Follow this uphill. Do not miss a left turn here, then through beautiful oak forests to the mountain road to Eisenberg. Follow this left uphill until you reach the highest point of Eisenberg and the wine-growing hamlet.

In the village center is the Vinothek Eisenberg. The trail branches off 200 m after the Vinothek to the left on hiking trail No. 4 towards Deutsch Schützen-Weinberg. Following the route, the path first leads through Eisenberg-Ort and then on path 4a after a short forest section to the stage destination Deutsch Schützen-Weinberg.