Lavamünd - St. Lorenzen (Lorenzenberg)

Access to starting point:
First, we drive to Dravograd, and then we continue driving towards Austria. Further, we drive over the border crossing Vič, and we follow the main road to the beginning of the settlement Labot / Lavamünd. Here on the left side of the road, we notice a parking lot, where we can park.

Path description:
From the parking lot, we at first carefully cross the main road, and then we continue on the sidewalk of the road which leads towards Gradec / Graz and Ivnik / Eibiswald. To the first turn, in the middle of which there is also a smaller crossroad, we follow the road, and then signs for the footpath point us on an overgrown footpath which continues between both roads. The path which at first steeply ascends, quickly flattens, and then crosses slopes towards the right and only a little further returns to the road. We continue on the main road only a short time, and then signs for St. Lovrenc / St. Lorenzen and Košenjak / Hühnerkogel point us to the right on a narrower road which continues through fields. The gentle road after a few minutes brings us to a smaller hamlet, after which we turn left on a gradually narrower cart track. The marked path, which gradually starts moderately ascending, for some time passes on the right side of the stream Multererbach, and when it returns on the left side, it becomes a little steeper.
Higher, the path leads us past a relatively new wooden cottage, and only a little higher we step on an asphalt road which we only cross and continue the ascent on the macadam road which ascends to the sign named Hornigkreuz. Here the road for some time passes on a gentle grassy ridge, and we follow it only a short time because then signs for St. Lovrenc and Košenjak point us on a steep footpath. After a few minutes of steep ascent through a conifer forest we return to the road, and we follow it in the already known direction. A little further, we arrive at a lonely hamlet of two houses, behind which the road changes into a cart track, which at first slightly descends. After a short descent, we arrive at a smaller junction, where we continue on the left upper cart track, which becomes more and more overgrown. The path ahead crosses steep slopes overgrown with raspberry bushes, and on a quite overgrown path we start descending towards the bed of the stream Multererbach. When we cross the mentioned stream, the cart track widens and after some 10 m also stops descending. There follows a gentle ascent over the increasingly panoramic slope, and the path only a little higher brings us to an asphalt road, which we follow into the village Lorenzenberg. Here in the middle of the village we turn right and walk to the nearby church of St. Lovrenc.

On the way: Hornigkreuz (688m)

Trip can be extended to: Huhnerkogel/Košenjak (2 h)