Lower miners' circular route (8 points)

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Pernerinsel Hallein (Tourismusverband)

Our hike begins at the tourist office in Hallein on the Pernerinsel. We turn south and walk past the old, listed saline building on the left, where the brine from the salt mine was boiled from 1198 to 1989. Directly behind the saline building is the Pfannhausersteg, over which we walk in the direction of the old town. We turn right into Schiemerstraße, but after a few meters we turn left again and continue through Niederhofgasse (pedestrian passage) to Kornsteinplatz. We cross this in an easterly direction and thus arrive at Bayrhamerplatz, from where we walk up to the church (through the Unterer and Oberer Markt). Directly opposite the church we pass the Silent Night Museum, which once served as the home of the famous musician Franz Xaver Gruber, composer of the most famous Christmas carol in the world. We circle the church on the left side, walk past St. Peter's Chapel and walk through Dr.-Franz-Ferchlstaße and Schützengasse in a southerly direction to the Gymnasium. At the Gymnasium we follow the signs "Kreuzweg" and "Bad Dürrnberg via Knappensteig". To do this, we cross the stream and walk into the forest. Following the stations of the Way of the Cross, we now go up the mountain on a narrow asphalt road, the Riesenschmiedstraße. After a while we reach the Eggl-Riedel mine shaft, next to which the Wolf-Dietrich-Berghaus, built in 1597, used to stand. It is interesting to note that from 1956 onwards, visitors to the salt mine could "slide down" on the longest mine slide in existence at the time and then walk the last stretch down to the town. From here, the Knappensteig leads up the mountain on the right hand side via several concrete stairs. After a few minutes the path levels out again and we come to the Knappenkapelle, built in 1890. We hike straight on to the hamlet of Fischpointleiten. In Fischpointleiten we walk past the Jakobberg and Untersteinberg tunnels and then follow the stairs or the meadow path to the Dürrnbergstraße. We cross the road and turn half-left into Wallbrunnweg, which leads us to the salt mine. A great view awaits us at the observation tower of the Salt Worlds and also the stamp for the Tennengau Hiking Pass. We now hike steeply uphill in the direction of the church. Once we reach the church, we walk along Dr.-Martin-Hell-Strasse, passing the Kurhotel St. Josef on the right, behind which we turn left onto the Römersteig, a narrow path that leads through a large flower meadow. On this path we get back to the Dürrnbergstraße, cross it again and turn left into the Glannerbergweg. After a few meters the Grubenmühlweg branches off to the right, which we follow to its end (a farm). In the last bend, a meadow path branches off from this path - the path to the Reingraben. We follow this path until we come out again at the Eggl-Riedel mine shaft. From here on we follow the already known path back to Hallein and the Pernerinsel.