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Oberlienz
Farm villages on the sunny slope where the Isel valley opens toward Lienz, with an open-air museum keeping the district's rural building heritage.
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- 9Routes
- Featured summit · Böses Weibele
Highlights
All 15 from neighbouring places
Schloss Bruck | Museum der Stadt Lienz
4.6 km away, in Lienz
A medieval castle of the Counts of Görz above Lienz, now the city museum with works by the painter Albin Egger-Lienz.
Sommerrodelbahn Osttirodler
4.8 km away, in Lienz
An alpine coaster on the slopes above Lienz, running from the mountain station of the town's lifts down toward the valley.
Lienzer Bergbahnen, Hochstein
4.9 km away, in Lienz
Lifts up the Hochstein, Lienz's local mountain, serving ski slopes in winter and walking routes and downhill bike trails in summer.
Stadtpfarrkirche St. Andrä
5.3 km away, in Lienz
The Gothic town parish church of Lienz, where a memorial chapel holds the grave of the painter Albin Egger-Lienz.
Hochschoberhütte 2.322m
8.5 km away, in Ainet
An alpine club hut at 2,322 m in the Schober group above Ainet, a base for summit walks in this quiet high range.
Oberforcher Michael-Almhütte
5.8 km away, in Leisach
An alm hut of the Oberforcher farm above Leisach, on the wooded slopes at the southwestern edge of the Lienz basin.
Lienzer Bergbahnen, Zettersfeld
6.2 km away, in Gaimberg
A gondola from the edge of Lienz to the Zettersfeld, a sunny plateau at around 1,800 m with family ski slopes and easy high-level walking.
Lienzer Klause
6.3 km away, in Leisach
A historic barrier fortification at Leisach south of Lienz, built to control the narrow passage of the Drau valley toward the Pustertal.
Familienpark Zettersfeld
7.5 km away, in Gaimberg
A family play area on the Zettersfeld, the sunny plateau above Lienz reached by gondola, combined with easy panoramic walking.
Kosakenfriedhof
7.9 km away, in Tristach
A cemetery near Lienz for Cossacks who died in 1945, when refugees camped in the Drau valley were handed over to the Soviet army.
Naturfreundehütte 1.850m
8.9 km away, in Nußdorf-Debant
A Naturfreunde club hut at 1,850 m on the Zettersfeld slopes above Gaimberg and the Lienz basin, open to walkers in season.
Debanttal
9.7 km away, in Dölsach
A side valley near Lienz reaching deep into the Schober group, much of it lying within the Hohe Tauern National Park.
Seekofel
11 km away, in Tristach
A multi-pitch climbing peak in the Lienz Dolomites above the Tristacher See, with routes on its limestone walls.
Kuenz Naturbrennerei
11.9 km away, in Dölsach
A family fruit distillery at Dölsach near Lienz, producing schnapps from orchard fruit and offering tastings and farm sales.
Anraser Pfleghaus
13.5 km away, in Anras
A former court and administrative house of the bishops of Brixen at Anras, now a museum on the history of the Pustertal village.
Nothing of this kind in Oberlienz.
Routes
11 from neighbouring places
Themenweg "Friedensweg"
Gently climbing themed walk above Oberlienz devoted to the idea of peace, its stations spaced through meadows and forest overlooking the Lienz basin.
- 4.1 km
- Distance
- 262 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 47 min
- Duration
Böses Weibele
Ridge wander from the Bannberg road, passing the Hochsteinhütte and collecting the Hochstein, Rastl and Blößenegg before the grassy main summit.
- 10.0 km
- Distance
- 612 m
- Ascent
- 4 h 13 min
- Duration
- 24
- Check-ins
Skitour Rotgebele 2.696m
Steep ski tour from the Zauchenbach bridge above Thurn, climbing nearly 1,500 m past the Jageralm to a 2,696 m summit in the Schober group.
- 4.4 km
- Distance
- 1 465 m
- Ascent
- 1 465 m
- Descent
- 4 h 21 min
- Duration
Iseltalradweg Nr. 22
The Isel valley cycle path from Matrei down the river, past the Iselteich and the Iselblick lookout.
- 53.2 km
- Distance
- 495 m
- Ascent
- 5 h 11 min
- Duration
- 24
- Check-ins
Landgasthof Bad Weiherburg 725 m
Iselteich 707 m
Walter Mair Rundwanderweg Lienzer Talboden - Etappe 4
A level stage of the Lienz valley-floor circuit, running past the Bikebar, Restaurant Holunderhof and the Lienzer Tenne with barely any climbing.
- 8.0 km
- Distance
- 124 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 11 min
- Duration
- 11
- Check-ins
Skitour Schönberglspitze 2.640m
Serious ski tour from Glanz near Schlaiten that gains almost 1,800 m in under 6 km, topping out on a 2,640 m summit high over the Iseltal.
- 5.8 km
- Distance
- 1 789 m
- Ascent
- 1 789 m
- Descent
- 5 h 23 min
- Duration
Radweg Lienzer Talboden Nr. 35
A valley cycle path along the Drau and Isel floor around Lienz, passing the Aguntum viewing platform and the Iselblick.
- 39.1 km
- Distance
- 428 m
- Ascent
- 3 h 52 min
- Duration
- 1
- Check-ins
Themenweg "Kneippwanderweg"
Kneipp-themed route starting at the Zettersfeldbahn car park, pairing easy walking with water stations for barefoot wading along the way.
- 9.4 km
- Distance
- 222 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 45 min
- Duration
Themenweg "Vom Alten Leben"
Circuit above Oberlienz with stations on the old ways of rural life — how families here once farmed, milled and got through the mountain year.
- 7.6 km
- Distance
- 249 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 24 min
- Duration
Russenweg
3.3 km away, in Lienz
A steep historic path above Lienz, built by Russian prisoners of war in the First World War, climbing past the Moosalm to the Hochsteinhütte.
- 8.4 km
- Distance
- 1 013 m
- Ascent
- 6 h 2 min
- Duration
- 19
- Check-ins
Moosalm/Alban Lakata Trail
4.3 km away, in Lienz
A short flow trail on the Hochstein above Lienz, dropping from the Moosalm past the Bergfried viewpoint towards the valley station.
- 5.5 km
- Distance
- 345 m
- Ascent
- 54 min
- Duration
- 9
- Check-ins
Schloßbergrunde Nr. 103
4.7 km away, in Lienz
A circuit on the home mountain of Lienz, climbing forest roads to the Sternalm at 1,505 m and returning past the Bergfried.
- 15.6 km
- Distance
- 862 m
- Ascent
- 2 h 19 min
- Duration
- 16
- Check-ins
Horniss Nr. 106
5.1 km away, in Leisach
A forest-road climb above the Drau valley to the Sternalm at just over 1,500 m, beside the top station of the Hochstein lift.
- 11.0 km
- Distance
- 771 m
- Ascent
- 1 h 57 min
- Duration
- 5
- Check-ins
Skitour Zettersfeld Zentrum - Schoberköpfl
7.3 km away, in Thurn
Short, moderate ski tour from the Zettersfeld top station to the Schoberköpfl; the Lienzer Bergbahnen touring card includes four lift rides a day.
- 2.7 km
- Distance
- 451 m
- Ascent
- 451 m
- Descent
- 1 h 31 min
- Duration
- 11
- Check-ins
E-Bike & Klettersteig Burg Heinfels 1.130m
9.8 km away, in Assling
Short sport via ferrata below Burg Heinfels in the Pustertal, ridable to the base from the Punbrugge; a key wall provides the brief crux before the walk-off.
- 63.0 km
- Distance
- 52 m
- Ascent
- 22 h 48 min
- Duration
- 11
- Check-ins
Madonnen Klettersteig
10.2 km away, in Amlach
Via ferrata up the Große Gamswiesenspitze in the Lienz Dolomites, entered from the Kerschbaumer Törl side; a summit Madonna gives the route its name.
- 13.6 km
- Distance
- 470 m
- Ascent
- 6 h 18 min
- Duration
- 57
- Check-ins
Kinderwagengerechte Wanderung zum Hochsteinkreuz
2.9 km away, in Assling
A stroller-friendly out-and-back from the Hochsteinhütte to the Hochsteinkreuz above Lienz, nearly level the whole way with Dolomites views across the valley.
- 2.4 km
- Distance
- 67 m
- Ascent
- 43 min
- Duration
- 10
- Check-ins
Bike & Hike Böses Weibele 2.521m
6 km away, in Lienz
A big climb above Lienz on the Hochstein toll road, riding to the Hochsteinhütte at 2,025 m where the walk to the summit begins.
- 45.1 km
- Distance
- 2 092 m
- Ascent
- 5 h 59 min
- Duration
- 28
- Check-ins
Skitour Schleinitz 2.904m
6.5 km away, in Thurn
From the Zettersfeld above Lienz the skin track passes the Rottmannalm and climbs into the Schober group, finishing on a 2,904 m summit.
- 5.1 km
- Distance
- 1 043 m
- Ascent
- 1 043 m
- Descent
- 3 h 21 min
- Duration
- 3
- Check-ins
Märchensteig zur Hochsteinhütte
3.6 km away, in Lienz
Fairy-tale trail from the Schlossbergbahn in Lienz up to the Hochsteinhütte, passing the Sternalm and the Hubertusteich with story stations for children.
- 5.1 km
- Distance
- 522 m
- Ascent
- 3 h 12 min
- Duration
- 16
- Check-ins
- Hochsteinhütte 2 025 m
- Sternalm 1 505 m
- Hubertusteich 1 558 m
No routes of this kind in Oberlienz yet.
The region's own picks
Featured route
Themenweg "Friedensweg"
Gently climbing themed walk above Oberlienz devoted to the idea of peace, its stations spaced through meadows and forest overlooking the Lienz basin.
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