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Municipality in Carinthia, Austria

Wernberg

Wernberg is a municipality in the district of Villach-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia.

Wernberg
Wernberg · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Wernberg is a municipality in the district of Villach-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wernberg

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Landskron Castle

    Landskron Castle is a medieval hill castle northeast of Villach in the state of Carinthia, Austria. Dating to the early 14th century, the castle ruins are located on a rock cone of the Ossiach Tauern range, at an elevation of 658 metres above sea level.

    4 km · Ruined castle (German: Burgruine Landskron, Slovene: Grad Vajškra) northeast of Villach in the state of Carinthia, Austria · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Magdalensee

    Magdalensee is a small lake east of the Carinthian city of Villach, Austria. Its surface covers an area of 14 square kilometres, its maximum depth is 5.2 metres.

    3.1 km · lake in Austria · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Aichelberg Castle

    Aichelberg Castle is a castle in Carinthia, Austria. It crowns an 850 m spur in the Ossiacher Tauern, north-east of Wernberg, from which it once commanded the pre-alpine trade roads that linked the Drava valley with the interior of Carinthia.

    3.7 km · building in Wernberg, Austria · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Silbersee

    Silbersee is a small lake in the Austrian state of Carinthia, near the village of Sankt Ulrich, east of the Villach city centre, close to the Drava River. Its surface area is over eight hectares and its maximum depth is seven metres.

    2.2 km · lake in Austria · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Wernberg

Airports
Klagenfurt (KLU), 31 km · Ljubljana Jože Pučnik (LJU), 59 km · Trieste (TRS), 95 km
  • Feldkirchen bei Graz → Wernberg
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · €16–23
  • Salzburg → Wernberg
    148 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · €19–26
  • Linz → Wernberg
    190 km · quickest by road, 4h 31m · €28–39
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wernberg

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Wernberg. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextYou can either drive up (take care in winter) or take the cable car.
  • Go nextFrom the parking space/cable car station it's an hour's walk to the summit.
  • Go nextThe cable car station at the mountain's base at can be reached by bus or train, including S-Bahn line S2 from the Villach main station.
  • Go nextSince the Soca valley is actually easier to reach from Villach and Klagenfurt than Ljubljana (Slovenia's capital) it's well worth a day trip if you're hanging around Carinthia for longer.

From Wikivoyage: Villach, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    431 km
  2. 02
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    434 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    479 km
  4. 04
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    479 km
  5. 05
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    516 km

If you know how people move in Wernberg – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.