Bible path

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A Bible Trail is a hiking or meditation trail with stations on the way that confront the Bible in artistic form or in the form of information boards and want to give the opportunity to meditate on biblical topics. A Biblical Path is usually laid out on public paths and either as a circular path or as a path to a destination, it can be walked individually or in private groups, but also as a joint pilgrimage or procession or as a methodical offer within (Christian) events. This walking together is also called the Bible path . There are special Easter paths that allow you to experience Jesus' path to the cross and to the resurrection around Easter time.

Bible paths were set up by various sponsors and mostly inspired by church congregations. Some developed as a cross-church and even ecumenical project. They are understood as “an impulse to draw people's attention to the Bible and to make pastoral work more Bible- oriented”, says Wolfgang Schwarz, head of the Austrian Catholic Biblical Works .

Executions

There are various types of Bible paths that can be walked on:

Display boards / signs

Some consist of a series of display boards that are arranged at certain historical intervals, for example on the "Bible Path on the Glatt". On the Heimsheim Biblical Path, animals and stories from the Bible are brought into focus, also with the help of boards.

Steles

The Oberkotzau Bible Trail consists exclusively of stone steles or a metal plate in book form.

Mixed objects

The situation is different with the Bible Trail Burgoberbach / Neuses: This is laid out with stone steles and art objects made from natural materials. Chapels / churches and "Marterln" or resting places are also part of it.

On the Biblical Path in the Waldachtal (Black Forest) there are several stations where you can relate biblical events similar to an open-air museum.

Sculptures

The "Franconian Bible Path" consists of wooden sculptures that were set up in nature along the way.

Plant in the area

Some biblical trails are laid out as circular trails (biblical trail on the Glatt, biblical trail Heimsheim , biblical trail Waldachtal ), others with a start and finish point (biblical trail Burgoberbach ) or additional loose extensions (biblical trail Oberkotzau ).

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.jesus.ch/neuheiten/vermischtes/113669-news_flash_kurznachrichten.html
  2. ↑ Osterweg Leonberg. In: Community on Glemseck. Accessed March 8, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Schwarz: Bibelweg 2013. In: Bibel und Kirche 65 (2013), H. 4.
  4. ^ Biblical path on the Glatt
  5. ↑ Bibelweg Heimsheim
  6. ↑ [1]
  7. ↑ Bible Path Burgoberbach ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Bible trail in Waldachtal
  9. ↑ Franconian Bible Path