Wanderweg Burg Clam

9 Burg Clam (7.200m)

You have this beautiful hiking destination in front of you for almost the entire approach. You leave the market through the Postgassl and reach Bad Kreuzner-Straße at the Rieglersäge, which you follow to the right as far as Sulzer. Here you hike down the goods road to Mitterfellner (1,915 m) and across the meadow bottom of the Kreuzböckbach stream to Brandstetter and from there along the goods road to the Kreuzböckbrücke bridge. A meadow path to the right of the stream leads you to the goods road that crosses the Klambach near the Aschermühle (4,360 m) and continues through a settlement to Burghofer. The meadow path begins immediately to the right after the bridge and rejoins the goods road just before Klam. The stamping point is at the Fraundorfer inn. The Schlossberg appears as a gentle hill from the market town of Klam, but it drops steeply and deeply towards the Klam gorge. Follow the road towards Baumgartenberg as far as the oak chapel (trunk of the 1,000-year-old oak tree), where the ascent to Clam Castle begins.
Clam Castle was first mentioned in a document in 1128. It was owned by the Lords of Machland around 1149 and has been in the family of the Counts of Clam-Martinic since 1454.
The castle museum of the count family with a guided tour through the castle (armoury, Gothic chapel from 1491, porcelain collection etc.) is worth a visit.
Below the castle there is a castle pub in the Meierhof next to the Strudengau riding hall.
The Strindberghaus is located on the slope opposite the town hall in the village. The Swedish poet August Strindberg stayed in Klam several times between 1883 and 1893. The Stindberg Trail through the Klam Gorge commemorates his stay. A museum in Saxen is dedicated to the poet.
It takes around 30 minutes to reach Saxen via the romantic Klamschlucht gorge and you can take the train to Grein and the bus back to Bad Kreuzen.