The Trauchgauer Höhenweg

The approximately eight kilometer long Trauchgauer Höhenweg invites allgäu holidaymakers who spend the most beautiful time of the year in Füssen to a simple mountain hike with great views over the picturesque pre-Alpine country. The tour, which is also ideal for friends of Nordic walking, leads through a magnificent landscape and along a very worth seeing church.

Friends of hiking are waiting around the beautiful city of Füssen countless charming tours for every level of condition, which lead through the fascinating Allgäu mountain world. Whether leisurely walks around one of the numerous lakes in the area, moderate tours to rustic mountain huts or challenging summit hikes - Füssen im Allgäu is really a real hiking paradise. Today we introduce you to the approximately eight kilometres long Trauchgauer Höhenweg, which invites you to an approximately two-hour easy mountain hike with great landscape impressions and views over the pre-Alpine country. Start and finish point of this tour is the guest information in the municipality of Halblech Trauchgau. The journey is via the federal road B17. Parking is available near the parish church and in Halblech on the Kenzenparkplatz. For the hike, solid mountain shoes, weather-related clothing and some provisions are recommended. Friends of Nordic walking should not forget their sticks, of course.

The hiking friends start at the guest information center Trauchgau and first walk to the church of St. Andreas. The house of God goes to a wooden church from the year 740 Back and became the beginning of 18. Rebuilt in the century in the classical style. Church lovers will particularly like the artfully designed high altar here, which was made by Eustach Gast from Altenstadt. In a gilded tablet at the altar is a relic with parts of the bones of St. Andrew. The church, which is a beautiful place of reflection and tranquility, should be taken a closer look at a hike on the Trauchgauer Höhenweg. From the church, the route continues past the gravelwork to the Trauchgauer Hirtenhütte. Now it goes on to the right on a crisply rising forest road. At the end of the longer slope, the hiker expects a fantastic viewpoint that affords an unforgettable view of the vast pre-Alpine country with its green meadows and magnificent mountains.

Over lush green pastures and through forest, the hikers walk back downhill towards Halblech. Varied nature impressions, the soothing Allgäuer Höhenluft and the magnificent views make the tour a real pleasure for the senses. In between, the hikers pass some beautiful cookies, which are excellent for a small picnic in the countryside. After a total of about two hours, they finally return to the starting point via the chapel path.

The hiking tour runs mainly on wide forest trails with sand or gravel cover as well as asphalted secondary roads. It should best be completed between May and October, when the Allgäuer Bergnatur shows its most attractive side. Part of the route runs through the Müllerviehweide nature reserve, which is located from 15.12. up to 15.04. Not allowed to enter.

The family-friendly circular hike on the Trauchgauer Höhenweg impresses with varied landscape impressions and great views of Halblech and the idyllic pre-Alpine country. If you want to do an easy mountain hike while on holiday in foot, you should complete this tour. Friends of Nordic walking and church lovers also get their money's worth.