Franconian Marienweg
The Franconian Marienweg is a 1920 km long long- distance hiking trail through Lower Franconia , Upper Franconia and Middle Franconia . He touches 87 pilgrimage sites in the diocese of Würzburg and the archbishopric of Bamberg . Short sections of the route also run through Baden-Württemberg , Hesse , Thuringia and the Upper Palatinate . Its marking logo is a Mother of God in a red robe with a child in a blue robe on a dark blue background.
It was created in 2002 on the initiative of Josef Treutlein, pastor of St. Josef in the Würzburg district of Grombühl, with a west and an east loop, each starting and finishing in Würzburg. However, according to his own statements, he has not yet committed it completely. The signage is based on older hiking routes that the districts and hiking clubs had already defined and marked.
The long-distance hiking trail was primarily planned by its initiator for pilgrims, church associations and other Christian-oriented hiking groups, but is also generally used as a leisure hiking and cycling trail. It not only touches well-known Franconian pilgrimage sites such as Mariabuchen , Kälberau , Hessenthal and Kreuzberg Monastery , but also wine towns such as Dettelbach and Volkach , a traditional spa ( Bad Kissingen ) and numerous art-historical highlights that can be found in larger cities such as Würzburg and Aschaffenburg on the more remote stages, such as the Tilman-Riemenschneider- Altar in the parish church of St. Magdalena in Münnerstadt .
In 2020 the Marienweg was expanded to include routes in Upper and Middle Franconia ( Archdiocese of Bamberg ). Like the older routes, these also consist of two longer circular hiking trails (starting in Bamberg ): the western Magnificat route (466 km) and the eastern Ave Maria route (593 km).
geography
Routes from Würzburg
The route planner provides for four main sections with individual stages between 2.4 and 51.4 km:
- West loop
- Route 1 (139.4 km in 7 stages) first follows to Karlstadt dem Main in a northerly direction, then turns west and crosses the northern Bavarian Spessart and Kahlgrund to Aschaffenburg .
- Route 2 (193.2 km in 10 stages) leads from Aschaffenburg first south along the Main to Miltenberg , then draws a loop through the Odenwald back to the Main near Bürgstadt and runs east parallel to the river to Lengfurt . It thus circles the southern Spessart and finally leads via Höchberg to Würzburg .
- East loop
- Route 3 (238.3 km in 13 stages) leads from the Würzburg Schoenstatt Chapel after a short south turn to the east and north, crossing the Main several times, along the Ochsenfurter Gaus , the Steigerwald and the Haßberge via Haßfurt to Ipthausen near Bad Königshofen .
- Route 4 (288.5 km in 17 stages) follows the Franconian Saale to Bad Kissingen and then turns north through the Rhön . At Bad Brückenau it turns south again and reaches the starting point Würzburg via Hammelburg and Arnstein .
Routes from Bamberg
- Magnificat Route (466 km in 14 stages)
It first leads down the Main to Zeil (here connection to the east loop of the Würzburger Marienweg), then crosses the Steigerwald in a south-westerly direction (via Ebrach , Schlüsselfeld and Scheinfeld ) and reaches Rothenburg . Then she turns to the east and reaches the city of Fürth via Heilsbronn . Turning north here, it leads west of the Regnitz valley back to Bamberg.
- Ave Maria Route (593 km in 26 stages)
It leads first east of the Regnitz valley via Forchheim to Nuremberg . Then it follows the Pegnitz valley upwards and turns after Pegnitz to Gößweinstein . Now that it has crossed Franconian Switzerland in a northerly direction , it reaches Kulmbach and crosses the Franconian Forest . On the way back south, it reaches the Main valley again via Kronach near Lichtenfels . It then reaches Bamberg again via Vierzehnheiligen and Banz Monastery .
Description of the individual milestones
The individual stages (of the Würzburg Marienweg) are: Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap
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literature
- Treutlein, Josef: Hiking and cycling on the Franconian Marienweg between Main, Saale, Wern, Sinn, Kahl and Tauber, 1: 75,000 hiking and cycling guides, Galli-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-936990-12-6
- Martin, Johannes / Treutlein, Josef: Fränkischer Marienweg: Marian pilgrimage sites and places of grace in Lower Franconia, Echter-Verlag, 2004 ISBN 978-3-429-02566-3 (also as an audio book)
Web links
- Franconian Marienweg
- Map in the BayernAtlas
- GPX and KML data on the website of the State Office for Digitization, Broadband and Surveying
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bayer. Rundfunk B5 current broadcast f. Bergsteiger on May 31, 2020 at 6:35 a.m. and https://www.br.de/berge/wandern/wandern-fraenkischer-marienweg-spessart-rhoen-hassberge-steigerwald-frankenwald100.html
- ↑ http://www.fraenkischer-marienweg.de Fränkischer Marienweg - accessed on May 31, 2020