Every journey begins with a first step ...

The Jerusalem Way is the world's longest pilgrimage and an international peace and culture route!

The Jerusalem Way connects religions and peoples in a unique peace project.

The Jerusalem Way stands for mutual recognition and tolerance.

Love, the most powerful force in the universe, penetrates, illuminates everything and builds bridges between all people!

 

Pilgrims create openness to encounters, dismantle prejudices and fears, and strengthen trust - basic trust. The supposed boundaries between peoples and religions can be bridged by individuals with love and mutual respect.

HEART OF EUROPE_SWITZERLAND & AUSTRIA

Hiking & culture from the French border in Geneva through all of Switzerland and Austria to the federal capital Vienna. This is the third of a total of seven stages on the international peace and culture route between Spain and the Holy Land! Discover with us the great cultural and natural highlights, compact and with a lot of peace! Personally selected hotels, monasteries and pilgrimage accommodations, constant travel companions from the Jerusalemweg team and our coach provide the perfect setting for this.

 

This stage on the Jerusalem Trail is truly unique between Spain and the Holy Land: it leads us through the entire Alps and the heart of Europe! We start in France and cross the border into Switzerland on foot at Geneva, cross the whole of Switzerland, dreamy mountain and lake landscapes await us, hike past the myths of the Maria Einsiedeln Monastery, cross the Arlberg in Austria and discover the extremely attractive cultural attractions and historical highlights of the Alpine country from west to east to the capital city of Vienna. Finally, in St. Stephen's Cathedral we even receive the original Jerusalemweg stamp with dove of peace for our pilgrim pass, a unique journey is coming to an end here in the heart of Europe!

TRAVEL DATE: This trip was made in 2021. The photo album will be sent to you on request.

 

Some of the highlights are: On the way on the most beautiful pilgrimage paths, along wild and romantic river valleys and over several alpine passes and through mountain valleys, the unique route leads us through the varied landscape in the heart of Europe. Diverse highlights such as Geneva with Lake Geneva including vineyards, the national shrine Flüeli Ranft, Brünig Pass, Lake Lucerne, Interlaken, Schwyz, Haggenegg, Mythen, Maria Einsiedeln, Lake Zurich, Appenzellerland, Arlberg, Inn Valley, Innsbruck, Wolfsklamm, Tyrol's oldest pilgrimage site, Salzburg & Maria Plain Mariendom Linz, Mauthausen concentration camp, Melk Abbey, Wachau & Dürnstein, Vienna with Schönbrunn Palace, Heldenplatz and St. Stephen's Cathedral, ..

 

Impressions

 

- Photos from the Route inspection Switzerland & Austria

- Photos from the Pilgrimage Jerusalem Way Switzerland (2021)

- Photos from the Pilgrimage Jerusalem Way Austria (2020)

 

The end again becomes the beginning: Fascinating landscape from the Danube to the Aegean, so the appropriate transition to a pilgrimage through the untouched Balkans (Part IV / VII). JERUSALEM WE ARE COMING!