Brahms footpath
Above all Brahms loved to go on long walks in the delightful
countryside around Mürzzuschlag. He wrote to Theodor Billroth „...
how very much I liked it here and how beautiful the walks
are.“ So don’t miss the chance to learn
some amusing and serious facts about Brahms on the Brahmsweg,
a charmingly presented historical footpath.
In 21 stops
the visitor learns amusing and serious things about Brahms
and his friends.Your walk will be completed with the
“Brahms-Jause”
(a snack named after the composer)
at Gasthaus Steinbauer where
Brahms once took part in a
farmer’s wedding and danced in the local Styrian fashion.
An amusing composition
game and red
hedgehogs as signs on the way will
offer entertainment to children as well as adults.
Distance 4,5 kilometres
(about 2 miles), duration without break about
1,5 hours.
Brahms himself will lead you on the way.
„Dear visitor!
Welcome to Brahms footpath.
We start our walk right in front of my residence in the
Wiener Strasse, the home of a remarkable museum truly devoted to me.
I will show you how inspiring it is to walk and compose here
if you follow the red hedgehog sign. Please take a blank sheet of
manuscript paper to note down your compositions!
The „Red Hedgehog“ was my favourite inn
in Vienna, where I used to meet up with my numerous friends. Otto
Bühler would meet me on the way to my spiky „best
friend“ and so the red hedgehog will be your companion on
this walk.
The walk is 4,5 kilometres (about 2 miles) long and will take
you through the beautiful countryside of Mürzzuschlag. If you
stroll gently through the woods and meadows, you will easily return to
this spot in two hours´ time. You will be amazed by what you
learn on the way!
Above all, don´t forget to sample the "Brahmsjause"
(a snack named after me) at Gasthaus Steinbauer, where even I once
danced in the local Styrian fashion!“
Description:
Take a sheet of music in the passage to the museum. The footpath starts at the corner of the Brahms house (where the Brahms bust is situated). Follow the Roseggerstaße and the nose of the little red hedgehog, which was the name of Brahms´ favourite inn in Vienna. At the Roseggerpark you have to cross the street and go to the Evangelican Church, Nansenweg and then Nansenstraße. Stay right on this street and after about 150 metres you have to go down wooden stairs – be careful if it´s wet! Then turn right and at the Steingrabenstraße turn left. After some metres please go right into the wood and keep straight ahead uphill till you will reach the highest point – the Gasthaus Steinbauer (Brahms danced there in the local Styrian fashion at a farmers wedding). There you can eat and drink something - especially the "Brahmsjause". Then you follow the street downhill to the curve. At the board number 10 you branch into the wood and come to a small bridge over the Steingrabenbach. In the wood you follow easily the little red hedgehogs. Then you enter the Pretulstraße – please take a view to Mürzzuschlag and the “Schneealpe” and on the right side the “Scheibe”. Now follow the street downhill to Mürzzuschlag. At the sign “Mürzzuschlag” turn left into the Reinbachergasse, go downhill into the Burgenlandgasse – turn left and then you will enter the Nansenstraße again where you go back the same way to the museum.