Danielsberg, Mountain summit in Möll Valley, Austria

Danielsberg is a mountain summit near Reißeck in Carinthia that rises to about 966 meters. Several hiking trails cross its slopes and connect to the broader network of paths through the surrounding region.

Settlers left traces on Danielsberg from the Stone Age onward: a perforated axe found by walkers in 1934, a cup-marked stone identified in 1989, and two serpentine flat axes found in 1990 beneath the church floor. Celts and Romans built shrines near a spring at the summit, and around 45 AD a temple to Hercules stood here, renewed around 175; its building inscription is set into the church wall.

The mountain is named after the chapel dedicated to Saint Daniel that stood here by around 313; Bishop Modestus of Carinthia later gave the peak the name Danielsberg after it. The church, first built in 1127 and dedicated to Saint George, holds a Roman tombstone with Celtic names in the left side altar and a marble block carved with two Roman soldiers at the right side altar.

The trail starts from lower elevations near Preisdorf and leads to Gasthof Herkuleshof with a steady climb of around 200 meters elevation gain. Good footwear and a few hours of walking time help ensure a comfortable experience on the mountain.

In 1989 Hannsjörg Ubl of the Austrian Federal Monuments Office found a bowl stone on the summit: a rock about five by five metres with six carved depressions 1.5 to 3 cm deep and 4 to 7 cm across, estimated at around 6000 years old. Walkers had already found a perforated stone axe here in 1934.