Jakobsweg Carinthia, 7th stage: Villach - St. Jakob ob Ferndorf

From the Jakob church in Villach, you go across the main square to the Drau river, cross it to the north, then keep left and follow it upstream along the Drau cycle path to the Rennstein power plant and further to Gummern (Villach - Gummern: about 9.7 km). Here you cross the Drau bridge westwards and walk via Töplitsch and Untergraben to Kellerberg (Gummern - Kellerberg: about 5.3 km). While one route variant branches off here towards Weißenstein, the main pilgrim route continues along the same side of the Drau, following it via Feffernitz and Pobersach until Feistritz a. d. Drau (Kellerberg - Feistritz a. d. Drau: 5.8 km). Here you turn into Bahnhofstraße and cross the river again. Directly after the bridge’s left curve, follow a path in the forest uphill along the stream. After about 10 minutes, keep left at a fork and reach the Fresach state road via the farm vulgo Schlafer. Then keep left again and after about 250 m, follow the road to the right. Another 300 m later, turn left into a narrow street towards Ferndorf/Sonnwiesen. Passing the farm vulgo Jaklbauer, you reach the next intersection after about 1 km. After the Laas West village sign, be careful as you change from the road to a barely visible meadow path running along a fence into the forest. After the end of the fence, turn right and follow the signpost St. Jakob/Höhensteig, walking along the ridge to finally reach an asphalt road again via a forest road. Turn right there and go uphill for 800 m to the destination of the day stage, the branch church St. Jakob ob Ferndorf (Feistritz a. d. Drau - St. Jakob ob Ferndorf: about 6.3 km).