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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.

Persenbieg - Maria Taferl - Artstetten
14,66 km / ↓ 302 m / ↑ 456 m
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We now dive step by step into the legendary Nibelungengau and get up to FOUR pilgrim stamps today! See picture below. In addition to the already special landscape, with Maria Taferl we reach a place of pilgrimage known far and wide and then with the Artstetten Castle a historically very important place for Austria and the world! Because there is the grave of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este, more on that below. Today's stage is therefore planned a little shorter, we have to climb some climbs (a total of almost 400 meters) and there are important things to look at! It would be a shame to just "walk through" here. About the route: From Ybbs / Persenbeug to Marbach, the path is fairly flat and mostly directly along the left bank of the Danube.

In Marbach Cafe Konditorei Braun invites you to make a stopover, because there are the well-known foam rolls and the pilgrim even gets a Jerusalemweg stamp in the passport. Strengthened, the ascent of around 200 meters up to the village of Maria Taferl with the pilgrimage church of the same name follows, fittingly the Jerusalemweg route runs here on the Bußweg .. This offers a good opportunity to walk slowly, perhaps to say a prayer or just to be grateful for the pilgrimage and life path so far. Once at the top, a great view awaits us as a reward! The history of the church begins with the first documented mentioning of a chapel belonging to Maria Taferl in 1659, followed by the conversion to a pilgrimage church in 1660, which was consecrated in 1724. In 1947, she was finally given by Pope Pius XII. appointed basilica. Up here we have the highlight of today's stage and look out over the Danube valley. Up to the stage location Artstetten, however, it does not simply go down, but a series of more or less gentle ascents and descents in the hilly terrain. In Artstetten Castle there is a museum worth seeing and the grave of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este! Franz Ferdinand had been heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary from the House of Habsburg-Lorraine since 1896. He and his wife Sophie Duchess von Hohenberg were murdered in the Sarajevo attack. The act sparked the July Crisis that led to World War I !!

Accommodation for pilgrims, e.g. in Maria Taferl in the GASTHOF FREY with a beautiful pilgrim stamp. And in Artstetten in the SCHLOSSGASTHOF, what a beautiful ambience! On presentation of the pilgrim's pass, pilgrims on the Jerusalem Way get a special price for bed and breakfast. And there is one Jerusalemweg stamp including dove of peace! Reservation recommended (www.schlossgasthof.at). One can safely say that this was a special stage on the way to Jerusalem through Austria in terms of landscape and culture. We can toast to this in the evening with a glass of wine or beer. ;-)

 

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Distance: 14,66 km
Difference in altitude: 253 m
Highest point: 456 m
Lowest point: 206 m
Total ascent: 456 m
Total descent: 302 m