Every journey begins with a first step ...

In Spitz, immediately after the taxi ferry - where we crossed the Danube - the next one Dove of peace on the Jerusalem way! She looks exactly to Jerusalem and shows us the way ..

And there is a Jerusalem Way stamp! The stamp is kept by the Tourism info (Tourist information is on the Danube federal road, about 150 meters from the peace dove). After leaving the Weihauerotes Spitz we follow the well-known St. Michael Rundweg, a feast for the eyes awaits us today! Our effort of about 200 meters altitude is rewarded with breathtaking views of the world-famous Wachau natural and cultural landscape! The Jerusalemweg leads us over the legendary "Rote Toor" down into the Misling Valley, from there we go up through wonderful natural oak and hornbeam forests and to bizarre rock formations with old pines on Michaelerberg. As a further specialty, we experience gently sloping dry grass, which offers plants and animals an extraordinary habitat. Finally it goes downhill again to the Danube and with St. Michael you reach the Wachau original parish, the well-known fortified church of St. Michael. From now on we continue in the vicinity of the Danube via the villages ... we reach Dürnstein. INFO: The text from here is STILL being revised a little. The GPS route is already correct! Shortly before Dürnstein we see the equestrian statue, the statue of King Richard the Lionheart. It is reminiscent of the legend ... Blondl ... imprisonment .. Crusades and at the same time marks the point where the Danube used to be crossed (narrow point). The French monument commemorates the Battle of Dürnstein in 1805 and the victory of the Austro-Russian troops against the Napoleonic troops. It is estimated that around 8000 men lost their lives in battle! This is also the northernmost point on the Jerusalem Way between Spain and the Holy Land !! Today we are hiking on a section of the Jerusalem Trail, which runs here the most northerly between Finisterra and Jerusalem, only near Linz we were similarly far in the "far north". Our general pilgrimage direction will then bend several times from the next stage, namely first east-south-east via Vienna to Schwechat, then south-east to Budapest, and from there for a long time only southwards, towards the Balkans, Greece and the warmth . Back to the stage, after Dürnstein we reach Mautern where we cross the Danube, it remains rather flat until it goes up to Etappenede up to Göttweig Abbey, an ascent of 200 meters in altitude forms the end.

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