Way of St. James Burgenland

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Way of St. James Burgenland
Destination of all the Way of St. James: Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
Destination of all the Way of St. James:
Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
Data
length 52 to 55 kmdep1
location Burgenland
Starting point Frauenkirchen
47 ° 50 ′ 28 ″  N , 16 ° 55 ′ 10 ″  E
Target point Haslau-Maria Ellend
48 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 16 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  E
Type Long-distance hiking trail
Height difference 150 m
The highest point 268
Lowest point 118
Level of difficulty light
season all year round

The Jakobsweg Burgenland is an approximately 55 kilometer long branch of the Austrian Jakobsweg network , mostly in Burgenland and partly in Lower Austria .

The trail, which has been signposted from Frauenkirchen since 2013, takes up a variant of the Jakobsweg in Halbturn that comes from Hungary , leaves Burgenland between Neusiedl am See and Bruck an der Leitha and joins the Austrian Jakobsweg in Haslau-Maria Ellend .

description

The starting point of the Jakobsweg Burgenland is the Frauenkirchen basilica . The path leads first to the east, then north to Halbturn and on via Mönchhof , Gols , Weiden am See and Neusiedl am See to the Burgenland-Lower Austrian border. In Lower Austria the path leads past the Vitus Chapel near Parndorf and Bruckneudorf to Bruck an der Leitha and Göttlesbrunn-Arbesthal and on to the pilgrimage site of Maria Ellend. There the path connects to the Austrian Way of St. James.

Sights along the pilgrimage route are in particular the Baroque Halbturn Castle , the Kellergasse in Gols, the Jakobskirche Gols , the statue of Jacob at the foot of the Calvary of Neusiedl, the parish church of St. Nicholas and Gallus in the center of Neusiedl and the replica Lourdes grotto near Maria Ellend. The route has only a few easy inclines and offers a panoramic view of the northern part of the Seewinkel and Lake Neusiedl . The highest point is 268  m above sea level. A. , the deepest at 118  m above sea level. A.

Networking with pilgrimage routes and long-distance hiking trails

History of origin

The Way of St. James in Burgenland goes back to an initiative of Franz Renghofer , chairman of the Association of Friends of the Calvary in Neusiedl am See. This association had a desolate Jacob statue from the Neusiedl am See municipal cemetery restored and erected at the foot of the Stations of the Cross on Calvary. At the same time the idea for the first signposted St. James Way in Burgenland was born.

The project is part of the 2009 Interreg IIIA project called “A journey far to me”, which deals with pilgrimage routes and places of pilgrimage in Burgenland and also enables cross-border networking via the Pilgrimage AT-HU project.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detailed map with the route of the Burgenland Way of St. James
  2. ↑ Jakobsweg im Burgenland, in: ORF Burgenland from July 14, 2013
  3. ↑ Martin Reichhardt: Come and rest a little - Vitus chapel renovated and blessed, in: Tips Neusiedl am See from April 3, 2014
  4. ↑ Jakobsweg Burgenland, in: Bergfex.at website
  5. ↑ Jakobsweg variant Hungary, in: Web presence of the Jakobsweg Burgenland
  6. ↑ Marienweg - Mária út, in: web presence of pilgerwege.at ( memento of the original from January 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pilgerwege.at
  7. ↑ Charlotte Titz: Jakobsweg in Frauenkirchen , in: Bezirksblätter, Apetlon, entry from July 22, 2013
  8. ↑ A journey far to me, Burgenland pilgrimage routes and places of pilgrimage, in: Pilger-Info website