The longest peace path and pilgrimage route
The JERUSALEM WAY is the longest peace route as well as the longest pilgrimage route in the world and was founded in 2006 from a Vision .
This international cultural path leads from the end of Europe in Finisterre to its beginning in Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the most important place for Christians and Jews, a holy place for Muslims and is considered as the intersection of the world's religions.
As a pilgrim of peace, a pilgrim of hope (Peregrinantes in Spem), he breaks down his own prejudices and builds bridges to people, doing peace work at the grassroots level for the human family. The pilgrim passes through ... (click on the blue bar to continue reading)
On the long journey to Jerusalem, the pilgrim passes through countries of all three monotheistic religions and a wide variety of cultures and is, in the truest sense of the word, a stranger in a foreign land (Peregrinus). The pilgrim experiences great hospitality, be it in the countries of the Balkans, in Turkey, in Jordan or in Palestine & Israel.
Even though we are still a long way from it, the holy site of Jerusalem stands for hope for peaceful coexistence within the human family. The Jerusalem Way brings together different religions, nations and cultures in an extraordinary peace project and stands for mutual recognition, tolerance and appreciation of different ways of life.
>>> Statement for peace <<
Peace Pilgrimage on Saturday, June 28, 2025
Pilgrimage for peace: The communities and parishes of Schwertberg, Naarn, and Arbing are sending a strong message! Link Mapy map / Link google map
Start in Schwertberg at 08.00 a.m., total 22 km to Arbing. A shorter participation is possible, for example, from Naarn or Perg (details to follow). As a ceremonial conclusion, the Jerusalem Way peace dove will be placed at 17.00 p.m. in Arbing, the special place where in 2010 the Jerusalem Way was founded.
>>> Call for pilgrimage for peace on the Jerusalem Way <<
Guided pilgrimage
Jerusalemweg BALKAN 2025
(Hungary - Serbia - Kosovo - North Macedonia - Greece)
16-day trip: August 22 – September 6, 2025
TOUR GUIDE: Johannes Aschauer
>>>Details and registration<<
Current / News
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Ø Current information about Syria: Open here
Ø Pilgrimage to Jerusalem is possible!
Several pilgrims also arrived in Jerusalem on foot in 2024! For example Christina from Austria (April 2024) or Annelie from Germany (October 2024).
Both pilgrims walked the entire way from home to Jerusalem - excluding Syria! Congratulations
Ø back office team
We are building a team for the back office at the new headquarters in 4020 Linz. Would you like to be part of it? That would be great, just contact us on: Contact details see here
Ø Pilot project: The municipality of Schwertberg sets an example for peace
INVITATION: Sat. June 28, 2025 - We are making a pilgrimage from Schwertberg, via Naarn to Arbing on the Jerusalem Way. Be there! >>> Open details here <<< See also website of municipality of Schwertberg and the Schwertberg parish
- Newsletter 2025: Open here
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live film lectures
- Europakloster Gut Aich (SZBG): Monastery courtyard
Fri. 28.02.2025 / 19:30
- Schwertberg (Upper Austria): Volksheim
Fri. 14.03.2025 / 19:30
Peace City of Linz
The European Capital of Culture Linz has become a partner of the longest peace walk in the world. Ceremonial installation of the dove of peace in front of the New Town Hall (23 September 2023). Photos and details can be found here on the WEBSITE and PRESS RELEASE ORF
FULDA
An important German feeder route to the Jerusalem Way starts in the Boniface town of Fulda. This leads to Donauwörth along the Danube and connects to the main route in Linz. On September 30, 2023, the trail was officially inaugurated with the erection of the dove of peace: IMPRESSIONS CEREMONY
The book on the Jerusalem Way
Our bestseller! From the heart of Europe on foot to Jerusalem. The extraordinary history of the Jerusalem Way can be read, written by the founder Johannes Aschauer. About the vision, the commitment and the founding of the peace movement. The book in German and English (hardcover, paperback, eBook / e-Book).
PILGRIM PASS
Paths are created by walking | The pilgrim pass for your pilgrimage is available in our Shop
Paulo Coelho is enthusiastic about the Jerusalem Way
In 2013, Jerusalem pilgrims and the literary star met in a small Spanish village. What a stroke of good fortune: The Way of St. James meets the Way of Jerusalem!
Writer Coelho was enthusiastic and recognized the dimension of the Jerusalem Way as an international peace project. Jerusalem is the Gordian knot for world peace. Every single pilgrim makes an important contribution. What supposedly divides religions and peoples, individual people can reconnect with respect and care. See tweet from Coelho
ORF film report: ON FOOT TO JERUSALEM
THE JERUSALEM WAY: From the end of the world to the beginning of Jerusalem! ORF film "kreuz und quer" from July 9, 2013. Video is available in German and English (YOUTUBE and VIMEO)
(Video in GERMAN)
(Video in ENGLISH)
You can find more activities from previous years in the ARCHIVE / CHRONICLE
