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This hike leads from the center of Leogang to a wooden fox head built into the mountain, which originates from the legend "The Müllerfuchs of Gerstboden."
The legend of the "Müllerfuchs of Gerstboden"
According to the legend, not so long ago, a fox caused mischief around Lenzing. It was the soul of a blaspheming miller, who found no peace as a fox. “If I am to become something after death, I’d prefer to be a fox,” the miller is said to have blasphemed in the passed-down story.
And so it was. After the sudden death of the miller, the Müllerfuchs caused trouble between Wiesersberg and Lenzing all night. He frightened the population with his howling until the clock struck 4 and the nightly haunting ended. After some weeks of unrest and fear, the hunters tried to ambush the Müllerfuchs, but he escaped.
Only when the miller’s wife made a pilgrimage to Maria Kirchental was his soul freed and the fox disappeared.
