The Priest's Way 2008This tour is not described in our brochure | ||
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This seven day walking tour aims to allow you to visit as many as possible of the striking baroque and rococo churches that dot the countryside of the Pfaffenwinkel. Day 4 is a particularly long day, however, a bus is available from Peissenberg, some 6 miles short of your hotel in Weilheim. Otherwise all the stages are between 13 and 14 miles long. | |
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Day 1. Arrive in Marktoberdorf. Day 2. Walk to the top of the Auerberg (3461 feet), crowned by the pilgrimage church of St. George, and from where there is a fine view over pre-alpine Bavaria, then down to the River Lech at Lechbruck (about 14 miles). Day 3. Today's route is the same as the King Ludwig Way, but you walk in the opposite direction. First you cross the river and walk to Steingaden with its fine minster church. Continue to the Unesco Heritage site of the Wies Church to end at Rottenbuch, which also posesses an inpressive abbey church (about 13 miles). Day 4. Through mature woodland above the Ammerschlucht gorge to Böbing where there is a fine Baroque church. Then follow a ridge and pass a waterfall to Peissenberg (about 14 miles). You can end the walk here and take the bus to Weilheim. Otherwise, continue to Polling, where there is another impressive Abbey church to visit, before continuing to Weilheim (about 20 miles from Rottenbuch.) Day 5. Today's walk starts across mixed farm and woodland before you reach a nature reserve. Then the route crosses marshland rich in wildlife to end on the shore of the Starnberger See lake at Bernried (about 14 miles). Day 6. You can save the first 3 or 4 miles of the walk by taking the ship up the lake to Seeshaupt; if you walk the the path follows the lake shore. From here you stroll through woodland to the nature reserve at Ostersee and on via Iffeldorf to end at Penzberg (about 15 miles if you walk all the way). Day 7. Through and along the River Loisach to Bichl. Continue to Benediktbeuern, the oldest monastery in Bavaria and home to the Carmina Burana. Along the river once more through wetlands to the Kochelsee lake and the town of Kochel which is well known for its artistic connections, particularly Franz Marc, some of whose works can be seen in the museum here (about 13 miles). |
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