South Austrian Way of St. James
| South Austrian Way of St. James | |
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 Destination of all the Way of St. James: Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela |
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| Data | |
| location | Styria , Slovenia , Carinthia , East Tyrol , South Tyrol , North Tyrol |
| Starting point |
Parish church hl. James the Elder in Thal 47 ° 4 ′ 34.4 ″ N , 15 ° 21 ′ 42.7 ″ E |
| Target point |
Innsbruck Cathedral in Innsbruck 47 ° 16 ′ 9 ″ N , 11 ° 23 ′ 36 ″ E |
| Type | Long-distance hiking trail |
| Level of difficulty | light |
| season | all year round |
Map with all coordinates: The southern Austrian St. James is a cross-border, partly signposted main branch in the Austrian pilgrims trail network .
The route leads from Graz via Slovenia , Carinthia , East Tyrol and South Tyrol to North Tyrol to Innsbruck , where it joins the Way of St. James in Austria . Regardless of regional deviations in terms of route guidance, this is essentially based on research results by Peter Lindenthal .
In Styria , this path is provided with some scallops , but not marked and can therefore only be walked with the help of route descriptions and maps. Long stretches of the South Austrian Way of St. James, especially in Slovenia, have not yet been signposted.
Individual signposted sections of the South Austrian Jakobsweg can also be assigned to the Jakobsweg network of the respective federal state, for example in Carinthia the Jakobsweg Kärnten , in East Tyrol and North Tyrol the Jakobsweg Tirol and in between in South Tyrol the Jakobsweg South Tyrol .
In Styria, the alternative route marked by a private initiative as the Way of St. James West Styria leads from Thal near Graz through West Styria and, after crossing the provincial border in Carinthia, joins the main route of the South Austrian Way of St. James in Lavamünd im Jauntal .
description
Styria
In Styria , this path is provided with some scallops , but not marked and can therefore only be walked with the help of route descriptions and maps.
The South Austrian Way of St. James begins just like the Way of St. James in West Styria at the parish church Thal bei Graz in Thal bei Graz , designed by the painter Ernst Fuchs , but leaves the place in the direction of Graz Altstadt, where one of the six pilgrimage churches , the pilgrimage and monastery church Mariahilf, is directly on the way and directly on the Mur .
From Graz to Kalsdorf , the path runs directly on the Mur together with the Mur cycle path . After Kalsdorf the path leads to Enzelsdorf to the Jogglkirche (Jakobskirche) and then on to Mellach and Wildon .
Another stage leads into the South Styrian Wine Route over the Wildoner Berg out of the Murtal to Laßnitz and Sulm , past Seggau Castle and the pilgrimage church on Frauenberg near Leibnitz . The parish church of Leibnitz is also a Jakobskirche . The Way of St. James continues via Sankt Veit am Vogau to Ehrenhausen and then follows the Mur again to Spielfeld , where the border to Slovenia is crossed.
Slovenia
In Slovenia , the Camino de Santiago is not marked and can therefore only be walked with the help of route descriptions and maps.
In Slovenia, in the historical region of Lower Styria , the route starts in the Slovenske Gorice region (Windische Bühel) in via Šentilj v Slovenskih goricah (St. Egidi in Windischbüheln, St. Ilgen) at the pilgrimage church of Sv. Kunigunda in Spodnja Kungota to the university town of Maribor (Marburg an der Drau ).
The route from Maribor to Lavamünd leads more than 77 kilometers along the Drau valley in the Pohorje (Bachergebirge) mountains past Ruše (Maria Rast) and Puščava (Maria in the desert), Podvelka (Podwölling) and Vuzenica (Saldenhofen). In the further course you get through the municipalities of Radlje ob Dravi (Mahrenberg), Trbonje and Dravograd (Unterdrauburg), before crossing the Slovenian-Austrian border to Lavamünd . From Podvelka onwards, these municipalities belong to the Koroška region . So far, the area has hardly been developed for tourism and therefore there is no pilgrimage infrastructure whatsoever.
Carinthia
The Way of St. James crosses the following sections of the Drautal in Carinthia : (walking direction upstream, from east to west) Jauntal , Rosental , Villach Basin, Unteres Drautal, Lurnfeld and Oberes Drautal. Most of the Way of St. James runs south of the Drava.
The unmarked route described by Peter Lindenthal runs from Lavamünd to Žirovnica (Wasserhofen) and via Glinje (Glainach) and St. Jakob im Rosental to Villach . From there to Lendorf , Berg im Drautal , Oberdrauburg and on to East Tyrol .
In some cases, the Way of St. James in Carinthia was signposted with wooden boards.
East Tyrol
The East Tyrolean section of the South Austrian Jakobsweg is signposted as Jakobsweg Tirol and part of the Tyrolean Jakobspilgerwege network .
The journey is both in the variant of Peter Lindenthal signposted and in a St. James Tirol variant and starts on the border of Carinthia Tyrol near Nikolsdorf where one hand Bartholomew 's Church and also the Sanctuary of St.. Chrysanthemums located.
The route runs via Lavant ( Ulrichskirche ), Dölsach ( Martinskirche ) and Tristach ( Laurentiuskirche ) to the East Tyrolean capital Lienz .
To the south of it is the Galitzenklamm in Amlach . Other places on the way west are Leisach ( Michaelskirche ), Assling with two stops on the so-called Michael Pacher route, Anras with St. Stephen's and Antonius Church , Abfaltersbach with Lourdes Chapel , streets at the entrance of the Lesach Valley with Jakobskirche and Heinfels with Heinfels Castle .
Sillian is the main town of the East Tyrolean Hochpustertal , where the Carnic High Trail and the Drau Cycle Path begin and the Way of St. James leaves in the Arnbach district of East Tyrol in the direction of South Tyrol.
South-Tirol
The Way of St. James in South Tyrol connects landscapes that were once divided by borders, such as the East and South Tyrolean Alta Pusteria and the South and North Tyrolean Wipptal . Significant places along the way from Innichen to the Brenner Pass are Bruneck , Brixen , Franzensfeste and Sterzing .
In Bressanone , a Way of St. James coming from the south joins the Way of St. James in South Tyrol. Also in Bressanone, a route of the Way of St. James, which is in preparation, branches off along the “Keschtn-Weg” from Brixen to Bozen , on to Merano in the Vinschgau , from where there is a connection to the Engadine .
The “Jakobswege in South Tyrol” project is organized by the Neustift Monastery Educational Center , with the Eisack Valley Tourist Association and the Hochpustertal Tourist Association as partners.
North Tyrol
The Way of St. James in South Austria reaches North Tyrol over the Brenner Pass and joins the Way of St. James in Innsbruck .
The following places are located between the Brenner Pass and Innsbruck on the South Austrian Way of St. James: Gries am Brenner , Vals , Steinach am Brenner , Matrei am Brenner , Mühlbachl , Pfons , Ellbögen , Patsch , Igls and Vill .
literature
- Peter Lindenthal: On the Way of St. James through South Austria, Slovenia and South Tyrol: From Graz via Marburg, Carinthia, East and South Tyrol to Innsbruck , Tyrolia, 2nd edition, 2002, ISBN 9783702224387
- Peter Lindenthal: Way of St. James in South Tyrol (Innichen - Brixen - Brenner; Brixen - Bozen - Salurn; Bozen - Meran - Glurns - Müstair) , Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 9783702229108
- Jörg Oberwalder, Karin Pegoraro: Jakobsweg Austria, Graz - Innsbruck, hiking guide with tour maps and elevation profiles , Kompass-Verlag, 1st edition, 2010, ISBN 9783850260121
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ South Austrian Way of St. James from Graz to Innsbruck ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ St. James' Way from Styria to Slovenia
- ↑ Jakobsweg Steiermark ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ St. James' Way from Styria to Slovenia
- ↑ Gurk - Pilgrimage and Travel Unit ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Exact map of the Camino de Santiago in Carinthia ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.0 MB)
- ↑ Jakobsweg Tirol ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 46ff
- ↑ The Way of St. James in South Tyrol
- ↑ Overview map of the Jakobsweg Tirol ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 131 kB)
