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Camino. My other pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela Constance in the winter. A picture story.

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described in this report, I my personal tour of St. James. I have walked the road from January to April 2006, of Konstanz in Germany to Santiago de Compostela in Spain .

The route of Konstanz after Einsiedeln on the so-called Schwabenweg in itself is already a real pilgrimage, for me it was rather a test track. I do not have French or English language skills and the season is not the best for running. In Switzerland, I could easily help me with problems, replace equipment or expand as needed.

From Einsiedeln Geneva after I went by train, because running was too dangerous in the mountains because of the weather. Often, the mountain paths were icy, usually with a thin layer of fresh snow covered, so I do not recognize as smooth icy spots could. Some crashes were the result. With a knapsack on his back, traveling alone in the mountains, the no fun. I also wanted to take any risks, because of light or change the stubbornness of Camino with a cast on foot in the bed to have.

From Geneva to Santiago-Finisterre actually about as far as I'm Muxia-then run continuously. No train, no bus, no car, no cart. Feet.

Why do I write the report? I was able to profit in advance in dreams and later preparing a lot of experience of other pilgrims, and would also bring my experience now, and therefore express my thanks. In the summer run thousands Camino, is that there are a lot of information and reports. Travel experience of a pilgrimage in the winter are not as frequent.

Have fun!

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Day 1: Amsterdam (NL) Külsheim (D), -2 ° C



comfortable in the Inter City traveled from Amsterdam to Frankfurt. In Frankfurt, then switch to a regional train to Aschaffenburg. There, a small lounge, then take a train along the Main, then after Bronnbach der Tauber.



I will be over 2000 km on foot. I would like a written diary, I suppose the documentation but also to make all of villages crossed as possible pictures of the place Childs. What is not always succeed, as I often do not come clean on the main path to a location. In the convent of the monastery

Bronnbach is since the year 2000 a religious house of the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Holy Family "with Polish Padres. In the former stable block is the branch of the Institute for Silicate Research of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Intellectual

all levels.



In the monastery I'll never make the first stamp in my pilgrim passport. This will then be asking is not too often, the brother is amazed.

I am staying in Külsheim, near Bronnbach. My first 7 km walk! It is cold, with clear air. While I'm on the road while climbing out of the Tauber Valley at the height, it gets dark.

What an atmosphere! Winter, cold, silence.

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Day 2: Külsheim (D), Konstanz (D), -12 ° C



The night was clear, so it is very cold in the morning. I'm going to run in the car to Constance, my starting point at Lake Constance. We plan to follow the southern Santiago that crosses Wurzburg, Rothenburg, Crailsheim, Ulm, Weingarten to Constance.

We will go over Tauberbischofsheim, Bad Mergentheim to Crailsheim to encounter this Camino.



on the amount of Bad Mergentheim it is bitterly cold. A sunny winter day with clear, cold air, and according to good visibility. The cold takes almost breath when you climb out of the car.



Schainbach is a small hamlet, with some farms and an old church. is the key to the neighbor.



The Protestant Church in Schainbach is dedicated to St James, an almost infallible sign that the pilgrim route passes the village.



few kilometers Schainbach stands at Wallhausen Anhäuser the wall. Middle of the field are the remains of the choir room of a Pauline monastery of hermits is nothing left of the more than this wall. Nothing else in the area indicated on a settlement out, only forest and farmland.



Continue to Crailsheim, a town in the Hohenlohe region on the plateau. hit hard by war damage, the St. John's Church with a scallop presentation on the altar, fortunately, survived the so-called Battle of Crailsheim, on at the 20th April 1945 the historic inner city was destroyed to 95%.






The altar from the workshop of Michael Wolgemut, the teacher of Albrecht Durer (Nuremberg, late 15th century) on the back shows a picture of Jacob in pilgrim clothing and mussels.



ship of the Church of St. John, in the style of late Gothic mendicant order of the Franciscans, 1398-1440, built with the old font.



After several kilometers through the beautiful winter southern Germany we arrive in Ulm. The Ulmer Münster exhibit with its 162m high tower, the tallest spire in the world. The cathedral was built over a long period from 1377 to.



spite of iconoclasm in the Reformation, in which most of the art treasures were destroyed - including 60 altars and main altar, is the interior of the church is still very impressive.






joins In Ulm the historically significant St. James from Nuremberg on the way from Würzburg. At the Nuremberg way pilgrims come from Eastern Europe, for instance via Tillyschanz.





The Swabian Alb
under snow.



After another 60km arrival at the spa town of Bad Waldsee, located on the Camino de Santiago. For pedestrians and cyclists in the trail is full.



The Collegiate Church of Bad Waldsee.



Continue to wine garden, to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Martin. The monastery and the church are a main attraction of the Upper Swabian Baroque Route. Later in Einsiedeln I will notice the great similarity of the structures.



It's so cold that even the holy water in the porch is frozen.



1715-1724 was built the large, well-appointed, newly baroque cathedral with since 1956, the honorary title of Papal Basilica (Basilica minor). It should stand in the midst of an ideal monastery. The ideal plan of the monastery was but are only partially implemented in reality.



In the church I see an interesting picture of Mary with her child in her arms on a pillar. What might the symbols mean?

now I know more:

"In the Book of Revelation sees the mystery of the faith shown the lmmaculata:
'A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet and on her head a crown of twelve stars' (Rev. 12, 7).
Not on the present image of the stars and the explicit representation of the snake, which is replaced by a looking down head.

Mary is clothed with the sun, we see the rays emanating from her body. be clothed with the sun means to be clothed with Christ. Not visible with an outer garment, but with what is inside and outwardly. The real beauty of man is the one that comes from within.

Mary stands on the moon. The moon is a symbol of the instability, because its shape changes repeatedly. Meant the impermanence and fickleness of man before God. It is not to find Maria. The snake as a symbol of the tempter and his power over the people is at the feet of Mary (here the head instead of a snake).

Since God the Maria has dominion of evil and even removed based in her home, was symbolically crush the serpent's head in Mary. Thus began the fulfillment of the promise to Eve that the offspring of the woman would bruise the serpent's head (cf. Gen 3, 15). " after http://mariendom.de/gnadenbild/gnadenbild.html




in the aisle of the church or a large nursery is established, the life work of a local artist, a shepherd.



In Meersburg we bring into the setting sun on the ferry across Lake Constance. Back Constance, I for many Years and know where I lived for several years as a student had.

I arrived at my home location. What will the next time?

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Day 3: Konstanz (D) Tobel (CH), 8h, -3 ° C



have stayed on the Bodanrück in the hostel. Beforehand I had even purchased yet a youth hostel card, but they take only 26 € for the night. It was one of the most expensive in the whole journey.

The lake is covered as usual at this season with a cold, damp fog that lies over consistency. After all, he is not so thick that you hardly see his hand before his eyes. Overlooking the Lake it passes the Rhine waterfront in the city.



To my great surprise, I think the first time since I have known and constancy that was 15 years ago, the cathedral without scaffolding in front of the main entrance. Great! In Münster just held a religious service. My departure from Germany.

There are also more to see already the first signs of Alemannic carnival.



And that is a reason for my trip: The Way of St. James-sign in front of the cathedral. How often have I stood here and dreamed of this path. He is so long that it seems unreal. Who has so much time? And then when he has so much time, who has not so much Health?
1950km should it be from here. In the parish office, upon collection of the stamp, but I can not say on which of the routes should run this way 1950km. I can not understand it mathematically. Must be a lot more.

way, I am the first pilgrims to Santiago this year in Konstanz. I did not expect! It is the 25th January.



goes to Constance it across the border to Kreuzlingen, I went so many times. Strange feeling to walk here to have them, what to expect in the coming months with no real idea. The world around me seemed busy in the city, the mood was perhaps through the fog, quiet and subdued. I allow myself to unclip myself for a while from this world and just start moving. And my family allows me too. Thank you!

look people in Konstanz and Kreuzlingen funny to me because I'm obviously not the way to work, or my imagination or is that just?



is in Kreuzlingen steeply to the lake ridge. means to Santiago from Konstanz to Einsiedeln Schwabenweg , and as such is well signposted well.
Within a short time changed the environment, it is much colder and there is little snow.



I'm on the road in Switzerland. Not to be overlooked.



Ellingshausen in Thurgau.



Lippold Wiler. Bitterly cold wind, I am glad that I've done a very good equipment. All doors close, so that the wind has no chance. Despite the lack of open skin areas (ie only the face) is so cold that it hurts, I'm wet with sweat under all the layers on the upper body.



In woodland it equally pleasant, the wind is barely through the trees.



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Thurgau One of the beautiful half-timbered houses on the road.



Märstetten. I'm hungry, but all the restaurants seem closed. The Schwabenweg almost always leads to paths that are heavily restricted traffic, which is usually not through the center of the places.



The Protestant Church in Märstetten Jacob. A stamp for the stamp book of lies. Is it nice to be able to sit a few minutes in the heats and the backpack to store!



the Church from within, the frescoes have been spanked in a renovation exposed.



Amlikon, on the bridge over the Rhine.



Amlikon view.



Hünikon.



typical image from a farm road. Switzerland, operates a highly subsidized small-scale farming system with strict quotas, for example on the milk yield.



chapel at cold well, unfortunately closed.



"Without God all the ridicule." I never noticed before was a lot of mountain biking in this area move.



St. John Commandery in ravine, my destination for today.

"As a result of fratricide in the Toggenburg Graf seat Rengerswil at Wängi was in 1228 an establishment (Commandery, Upcoming, or House of Nobility) of the set during the Crusades created Order of St. John. The Foundation's assets included the castles Heitenau and Allenwinden in ravines. Links existed with the medieval Pilgrims from Konstanz to Einsiedeln (Schwabenweg). On those structures evolved over time, the village ravines. The three-winged building of the famous Baroque architect Johann Caspar Bagnato replaced in 1747 the old Commandery. After the dissolution of the Order 1807 the unclaimed property offices. The Commandery fell to the Canton Thurgau, in the buildings to set up breeding and work facility and continuously expanded. After the abolition in 1973 or after 1811 created a massive converted buildings were demolished. " source http://www.komturei.tg.ch







belongs to a church with a Commandery Cemetery



rather cheesy in the church -. ... but warm



... and with interesting Bethlehem Bethlehem is a short hand. moved to the mountains.


Stay at a bed and breakfast, a widowed lady. Hot showers, a blessing! Food, then off to bed. Sleep is not real but a rest, the cycle rotates, the feet glow, watch often.


The lady will get in a few days, artificial knee joints, as she tells me at breakfast the next morning. She has great anxiety before surgery. She dreams of hiking, made with their bad knees last year, even a small hike in the mountains, until it was no longer in pain. However, none of the friends had time to accompany her. She finds it a pity now.

I have to think of her often on the move.