Pilgrim walks in the Zugspitze Region

The 1900 kilometres long pilgrim trail "VIA ROMEA", from Stade (close to Hamburg) to Rom, from Oberammergau to Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

A hike along part of an old Roman road from Rottenbuch Abbey to Ettal Abbey. The Via Romea runs from Stade in northern Germany all the way to Rome.

The 1900 kilometres long pilgrim trail "VIA ROMEA", from Stade (close to Hamburg) to Rom, from Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Klais.

The 1900 kilometres long pilgrim trail "VIA ROMEA", from Stade (close to Hamburg) to Rom, from Klais to Mittenwald.

Von Farchant auf dem Philosophenweg kommend, schlängelt sich der Weg des Wanks entlang bis hinein in den historischen Ortsteil Partenkirchen und führt über das Hasental, die Pfeifferalm und den Gschwandtnerbaur nach Kaltenbrunn und Klais.

In 1236, Abbot Albert of Stade travelled to Pope Gregory IX. in order to effect a monastery reform at his Benedictine monastery of the Virgin Mary in Stade. In his "Annales Stadenses", he documents the most important ecclesiastical and political events of his time. A dialogue of two monks on the best way for a pilgrimage to Rome is embedded in there. In this dialogue (Itinerary), Albert von Stade describes his own trip to Rome, with all rest areas and precise distance information between the places. He names 28 towns only in Germany. A duplicate of this document from the 14th century can be found in the Herzog August Library at "Wolfenbüttel". The anthropologist, Prof. Giovanni Caselli from Italy, finds this itinerary about 770 years later. Giovanni Caselli and a German theologian, Dr. Uwe Schott, invited the German mayors of these 28 towns mentioned to a meeting in Ochsenfurt in March 2008. This is the beginning of the restoration of this ancient pilgrim route from Stade to Rome. Meanwhile, the entire historical route has been explored. International understanding, interreligious dialogue and fostering of peace are the objectives of the "VIA ROMEA" - the route of encounters.

The 1900 kilometres long pilgrim trail "VIA ROMEA", from Stade (close to Hamburg) to Rom, from Saulgrub to Oberammergau.

The 1900 kilometres long pilgrim trail "VIA ROMEA", from Stade (close to Hamburg) to Rom, from Rottenbuch to Saulgrub.

Der 125 km lange Jakobsweg verläuft ab Kloster Schäftlarn entlang an Isar und Loisach über Gelting, Beuerberg, Penzberg und Bichl, vorbei am Kloster Benediktbeuern, an Kochel- und Walchensee, durch die Alpenwelt Karwendel in die Olympiaregion Leutasch-Seefeld bis Mötz im Tiroler Inntal. Die 11. Etappe führt von Mittenwald nach Leutasch.