Langen | downy birch groves on Feßlerberg mountain

Hirschberg Gipfel mit Blick Richtung Nagelfluhkette

Hirschberg Gipfel mit Blick Richtung Pfänder

Hiking trail

Beautiful views, a light-flooded birch forest and mountain pastures line the trail to the Feßlerberg and the Hirschberg mountains.

Birch branches were once used to make besoms – and occasionally still are to this day. One of the last groves of downy birch in Vorarlberg is located on the Feßlerberg near Langen. Downy birch groves are pastures with light-flooded stands of trees. The branches from these trees were once used to make besoms. But this type of broom is rarely made these days. The destination on this hike is the 1,095-metre-high Hirschberg mountain, which is located in a nature reserve.

Schwierigkeitsgrad

easy

Dauer

3:45 h

Directions

The sunny location on the southern slope of the Pfänder massif near Bregenz makes the municipality of Langen a hiking paradise for young and old. The Hirschberg (1,095m) is designated as a nature reserve.

From the village center of Langen you walk over the Geserberg along a forest path up to the Hirschberg. From the summit you have a fantastic view not only of the mountains of the Bregenzerwald, but also of the Alpstein massif behind the Rhine Valley. Below the summit, the Hirschberghütte lures you to stop (only during the season).

It goes back over the Feßlerberg down to the village center of Langen.