My St. James Way

2016 step by step and with many interruptions I go my way of St. James to Santiago de Compostela. For me it is like a test excavation right across Europe apr. 3,000  km long. Supposed and historic pilgrimage are „just“ benchmarks for my self-experiment to encounter (cultural)  landsacapes, strangers, myself and of course get a little bit closer to God.

My Project

In 2020 I crossed the Eifel Highlands and arrived in Trier in the Rhineland-Palatinate: 1200 km of ca. 3,000 km. 

Great People on my Way (DE) | my Stamp Collection (DE) | my Way at Komoot

Berlin/Brandenburg

Berlin/Brandenburg: in the beginning there was a lot of “patch way”. I started in the very centre of Berlin in order to reach the outskirts in the South, followed by Potsdam and Brandenburg an der Havel. The brilliant monastery complex of Lehnin offered me a first pilgrims refuge.

Saxony-Anhalt

Saxony-Anhalt: The Way of St. James is well prepared in this German state. At the monastery of Jerichow I crossed the river Elbe and reached Tangermünde, followed by Stendal and the way South to Magdeburg.

von Stendal nach Eilsleben

Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony: From Magdeburg I crossed improvised “the Börde” to reach the old county of Brunswick, and then reached Hildesheim and the Weser Uplands. My first longer hiking tour brought me to the first “real monastery” (Marienrode) and a protestant abbey (Amelungsborn). And I got to know to three UNESCO-World heritage sites: St Mary’s Cathedral and St Michael’s Church at Hildesheim & Fagu-Factory in Alfeld and the high light at the end point in Westphalia: Corvey Abbey.

Niedersachsen Jakobsweg

Westphalia

Bergisches Land & Cologne Lowland

Jakobsweg Köln

Eifel mountain

Lorraine

Lorraine/Champagne/Burgundy

Burgundy

My next steps

(Planing at Komoot):

  • Rhône-Alpes
  • Auvergne
  • Longuedoc-Roussillon
  • Midi-Pyrénées
  • Aquitaine
  • Navarra
  • La Rioja
  • Castile and León
  • Galicia

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