Via Romea

This article describes the pilgrimage from northern Germany to Rome. For the pilgrimage from England via the Franconian Empire to Rome, also often referred to as the Via Romea , see Via Francigena .

Colored first edition of the Romweg map, 1500. Oriented to the south, like all maps of Etzlaub.

As Romea , even Romweg a way is called, the Abbot Albert von Stade Stade Coming went back in 1236 on a pilgrimage to Rome and the Pope. In his travel notes, the Stader Itinerar , he left a detailed description of the route for subsequent generations. Based on this, the course of the route can be reconstructed.

The pilgrimage locations in Germany are: Stade , Celle , Rietze , Braunschweig , Hornburg , Wernigerode , Hasselfelde , Nordhausen , Ebeleben , Bad Langensalza , Gotha , Schmalkalden , Meiningen , Bad Neustadt , Münnerstadt , Schweinfurt , Würzburg , Ochsenfurt , Aub , Rothenburg ob der Tauber , Dinkelsbühl , Marktoffingen , Donauwörth , Augsburg , Igling , Schongau , Oberammergau , Partenkirchen and Mittenwald .

The pilgrimage sites are in Austria: Seefeld in Tirol , Zirl , Innsbruck and Matrei .

The places of pilgrimage are in Italy: Sterzing , Brixen , Bozen , Trient , Padua , Venice , Ravenna , Forlì , Arezzo , Orvieto , Viterbo and Rome .

Via Romea between Ochsenfurt and Aub

The Wernigerode historian and district judge Walther Grosse wrote the book History of the City and County of Wernigerode on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the city of Wernigerode in 1929 . In this book he writes: “ The important road, mentioned in the first half of the 13th century by Albert von Stade , ran through the Wernigeröder Mühlental and connected Italy and Tyrol with the Lower Elbe and the Scandinavian north and the Harz from Nordhausen via Hasselfelde to Wernigerode ".

Other names for subsections

Sections of the Via Romea are also known by other names. The section near Celle was also called Dietweg or Folkweg . The section of Via Romea , which leads over the Harz Mountains, is called the Trockweg .

In the Apennines on the way from Bagno di Romagna to the Passo Serra

History of the Rome Route

By Albert von Stade , the first Directions comes the way from northern Germany to Rome . This route has changed a few times over the years, for example due to diseases ( plague ) in pilgrimage sites. A further development of the merely verbal route description took place in 1500 in the form of the Romweg map of Central Europe by Erhard Etzlaub .

See also

• Via Raetia
• Via Imperii

Web links

• Historical pilgrimage routes St. James - Via Francigena - Via Romea
• "Rome pilgrimage route" in the Wernigeroder official gazette of April 26, 2008 (PDF; 1.9 MB)
• Initiative "Via Romea" in Rhön-active on November 18, 2008
• "Via Romea" in the Braunschweiger Zeitung from January 30, 2009
• "Förderverein Romweg" founded in Hornburg in the Braunschweiger Zeitung on January 31, 2009
• "Förderverein Romweg" Homepage Dr. theol. Uwe Schott, pastor retired
• "Romweg" in Main Post from February 26, 2009
• "Romweg" in Main Post from January 23, 2009
• "Romweg / Pilgerweg" in the Braunschweiger Zeitung from June 16, 2009
• 1,600 kilometers for the unity of the Church
• Path website (Italian)
• Website for the German part of the VIA ROMEA GERMANICA

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frank Rieckenberg: Waters in the Celle urban area before the city was founded - A historical consideration (Part 1) ( Memento from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Cellesche Zeitung . 14th of June 2013
2. ↑ Hendrik Altmann: The old ways around Celle (I) . November 12, 2013
3. ^ The forest of Hasselfelde, a Welfish allod ( Memento from February 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). History Association for the Duchy of Braunschweig (ed.). Wolfenbüttel 1912, p. 116 ff.
4. ↑ Annales Stadenses , pp. 335-340.

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