BERNSTEIN TRAIL East Route | Stage 6 | Sopron (HU) - Neckenmarkt

From the stage start at the tourist information at the main square in the old town of Sopron, you start down the Templom ulica to the right of the church to the end of the pedestrian zone and a green strip. There, shortly turn right and at a bike crossing immediately left into Erzsébet ulica. Follow this street straight ahead to another wide green strip, which represents a kind of park. Here, keep to the left edge of the park on the right until you find a turn on the left into Batsányi ulica. Follow this over a street, railway tracks, and another larger street, continuing straight ahead until you turn left onto a slightly larger street – Mikoviny ulica. At the end of the street turn right and immediately right again into Városligeti ut. Now you are in the historic villa district of Sopron. Walk up the street until you turn left into “Villa sor.” The next street – Várisi ut – again right, cross a major street and continue to the end of the street at a turnaround in front of the Superior Hotel Lover.

Now the beautiful hiking trails through the Ödenburg Mountains begin. You continue straight ahead, left of the turnaround and left of a fence, on a forest path parallel marked with blue triangles. At a crossroads go straight ahead, after some time over a meadow and a while later sharply right towards the observation tower on the Karlshöhe. Although admission must be paid and only possible in the Hungarian currency, the forint, you should not miss the view from the observation tower over Sopron.

Our onward path starts in front of the observation tower. You walk down the small asphalt road to a barrier and a parking lot. A short loop over the parking lot and at the end the small street left – and you are back on the busier road. Cross it and follow a small asphalt road for about 100 m, this is marked parallel with a yellow line. Now turn diagonally right into a forest path, which you follow straight ahead for quite some time; this forest path is also parallel marked with yellow lines. At a crossroads continue straight ahead; from here it is marked parallel with blue lines, you walk along the hilly slopes at the same elevation through beautiful oak and beech forest to a small bridge. Over the bridge and immediately behind sharply right to a slightly larger forest road with benches. You are now in the area of the Sopron-Várhely burial field.

On the forest road to the right and after 100 m immediately left into a path. Follow this path, which is marked parallel with blue lines; after some time, at a fork in the path, turn left and after 30 m stand on a small asphalt road. Follow this slightly uphill to a gravel area where the road makes a right curve. Here go a few meters straight ahead and immediately behind a barrier sharply left onto a forest road, which is marked parallel with green and red lines.

Now the last section through the Ödenburg Mountains starts directly along the Austrian-Hungarian border. Along the forest road, at a fork to the right and over a wooded hill. Behind this, the forest road makes a left turn; you follow it and hike downhill for quite a while until you leave the forests of the Ödenburg Mountains and meet an asphalt road. Here turn right, immediately cross the small border crossing between Hungary and Austria, immediately turn left behind it, and after another 10 m turn right onto a field path. At the next crossroads straight ahead and now via farm roads parallel to a bike path to the Florian Chapel and further to Neckenmarkt. In Neckenmarkt turn left down to the church, your stage destination.