2003 the Austrian made a pilgrimage Johannes Aschauer with a friend on the St. James from Austria to Finisterre. The trip had a lasting effect on him and Johannes shared his experiences with people through film lectures. In March 2006 on the way home from a lecture tour hit John arrived out of the blue Brainstorm. The word Jerusalem ran through his head and remained persistent until Johannes took the impulse seriously and opened up to the idea of ​​walking to Jerusalem. A reputation is a reputation. 

After four years of preparation, Johannes finally broke June 24, 2010 on and was by David Zwilling and Otto Klar accompanied. The two police officers and the downhill world champion followed in the footsteps of the Crusades, walking on the paths of the Apostle Paul and the historic pilgrimage paths through Europe, Asia Minor, Syria and Jordan to the Holy Land. They wandered through valleys and over mountains, through fertile areas and barren deserts, along sea coasts and rivers and finally through Syria shortly before the start of the war. After six months they finally came Christmas Eve in Bethlehem and reached Jerusalem on December 26, 2010.

On December 21st 2012, On the day on which, according to prophecies of doom, the world should have ended with the end of the Mayan calendar, Johannes and his companions traveled again to Finisterre to mark the beginning of the JERUSALEM WAYS to justify with the message: 

“From the end of the world via the heart of Europe to the beginning”. 

It became the initiation of the longest pilgrimage route and the international peace and cultural route Jerusalem Way.

As a result, Johannes wrote down the initial journey and published the adventure in a richly illustrated book: On the Jerusalem Way - an extraordinary pilgrimage from the heart of Europe on foot to Jerusalem. Like the film lectures, it inspires people who get infected to set out on their own. 

With the founding of the club on December 21, 2013 and the entry as a European protected trademark, the Jerusalem Way got a legal form on February 3, 2014. The club has been standing ever since

Jerusalem Way International Peace Team 

for 

Peace, freedom and tolerance

Pioneer Johannes Aschauer describes the summer in an interview 2023, how it came from the vision to today's global peace project: Interview on YouTube | Interview as a podcast

Over the years, a call from one individual has become a movement. Today develop a volunteer core team and countless silent helpers continue the vision and want to unite with the longest path to peace in the world Contribution towards confidence, international understanding and world peace create.

Be welcome! Whether pilgrim, organization, with one Membership at the club or Donation for the expansion of the path, networking work and further development of technologies.

Be welcome to be part of a great peace movement.