The Walking Pilgrim

Modern Routes - Route Details

Wartburg-Marburg-Cologne
Wartburg, Marburg; Marburg, Cologne

Route map

A route connecting the Ökumenischer Pilgerweg at the Wartburg near Eisenach with the Elisabeth shrine at Marburg and on to Cologne via Siegen was opened in 2007, the 800th anniversary of the birth of St Elisabeth. This is waymarked both as a Jakobsweg in the direction of Cologne and as an Elisabethpfad in the direction of Marburg.
For info on the 190km Wartburg-Marburg section, including the guide, see Elisabethpfad site; for the 170km Marburg-Cologne section, see Landschaftsverband Rheinland website, whose guide is published by Bachem.

Detailed mapping for sections (compare with list above):

  • Marburg-Cologne
  • Wartburg-Marburg
kmcumul kmview on map
01 Röhrda32.9132.91
02 Waldkappel19.2052.11
03 Spangenberg20.2672.37
04 Homberg28.74101.11
05 Ziegenhain22.54123.65
06 Stadtallendorf24.23147.88
07 Marburg26.95174.83
01 Obereisenhausen27.51202.34
02 Irmgarteichen25.45227.79
03 Siegen16.44244.23
04 Friesenhagen24.38268.61
05 Drabenderhöhe30.83299.44
06 Untereschbach20.89320.33
07 Köln20.69341.02
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