Jakobsweg Main-Taubertal

At a Glance

• Start / Finish: Miltenberg am Main, Main bridge (134 m; starting church St. Jakobus in the old town) / Rothenburg ob der Tauber, St. Jakob (410 m)
• Length: 177.8 km
• Duration: 8 stages, avg. 22.2 km (Camino Ninja division); the operator divides it into 9; with culture days in Bad Mergentheim and Rothenburg 10 days
• Elevation: ↗ 3,721 m / ↘ 3,446 m — 21 meters of ascent per kilometer, twice as many as on the Mittelfränkischer Jakobsweg; half of it on days 1, 3, 5 and 8
• Highest point: 454 m at km 140.1 on the Hohenlohe plateau between Rehhof and Wermutshausen; lowest point 125 m on the bank of the Main at km 1.7
• Stages: 8 — Camino Ninja system; hardest day Miltenberg–Wertheim (34.4 km, ↗ 835 m), shortest Tauberbischofsheim–Lauda (15.1 km)
• Landscape: Main valley and the edge of the Odenwald, shell-limestone slopes of the Tauber valley with vineyards and orchard meadows, Tauber heights, Hohenlohe plateau, upper Tauber valley
• Operator: Tourismusverband „Liebliches Taubertal“ e. V. with the district office of the Main-Tauber-Kreis, designated 2009
• Waymarking: white stylized scallop on a blue ground as a metal plaque, in the direction of Rothenburg only, no distance figures
• Traces of St. James: St. James churches in Miltenberg, Urphar (frescoes from around 1297), Dienstadt, Lauda, Niederstetten and Rothenburg (1311–1485); St. James fountains in Impfingen and Dienstadt; image of St. James in the Stiftskirche of Wertheim; Zwölfbotenaltar of 1466 with the legend of St. James
• Accommodation: inns, guesthouses and hotels in all eight stage towns, youth hostels in Creglingen and Rothenburg; no pilgrim hostel on the entire route
• Connecting routes: in Miltenberg the Jakobsweg Aschaffenburg–Colmar (no Camino Ninja page yet); in Rothenburg the Fränkisch-Schwäbische Jakobsweg (Würzburg–Ulm), the Mittelfränkische Jakobsweg from Nuremberg, the Jakobsweg Rothenburg–Rottenburg and the Jakobsweg Rothenburg–Speyer
• Connection to Santiago: via Rottenburg – Freiburg – Héricourt or via Speyer into the French network; or via Ulm and Lake Constance into Switzerland; from Rothenburg around 2,500 km
• Best time: May to October; May/June for orchard blossom and long days, September/October for the grape harvest with its „Besenwirtschaften“ (seasonal winegrowers' taverns); in high summer the Hohenlohe plateau offers no shade

Overview

This route begins with the mightiest peal of bells in the Diocese of Würzburg after the cathedral and ends in front of an altar in whose center stands not Jesus but Judas. In between lie 177.8 kilometers on which Franconia crosses three wine regions and a river valley turns out to be hill country: the route leaves the Tauber whenever a St. James church stands up above — Urphar, Dienstadt, Laudenbach — and returns below to monasteries, castles and palaces: Bronnbach, Gamburg, Bad Mergentheim, Weikersheim. At the end, on the final 23.1 kilometers, stand three altars by Tilman Riemenschneider, all made around 1505 — and at least one of them is in the wrong place.

The route was designated in 2009 by the tourism association „Liebliches Taubertal“ — so not by a St. James society, but by people who want guests. You notice it in the infrastructure: no network of hostels, but a railway stop in almost every stage town between Wertheim and Niederstetten, inns pouring Tauberschwarz and signposting that points in one direction only — toward Rothenburg, where six St. James routes meet on the Camino Ninja map. A cultural trail with a scallop, to be honest; but one you need not be ashamed of.

Other Names

The operator calls it the Jakobswanderweg im Lieblichen Taubertal; Wikipedia, the stamp directories and we say Jakobsweg Main-Taubertal. In the tour portals it goes by Jakobsweg Odenwald-Main-Taubertal, and the Odenwald has every right to be in the name: on the very first day the route climbs behind Freudenberg to 403 meters into the foothills of the Odenwald. The district office's brochure of 2012 is accordingly titled „Jakobswanderweg. Auf den Spuren der Jakobspilger durch Odenwald, Main- und Taubertal“, and the only guidebook is by Günther E. Ascher (Verlag RegioKom, Großheubach 2013, nine stages). Not to be confused: the „Fränkische Jakobsweg“ is a different route, namely the one marked in 1992–1995 from Rothenburg via Nuremberg into the Upper Palatinate, which appears on the map today as the Mittelfränkischer Jakobsweg. A „Main-Tauber-Fränkischer Jakobsweg“ does not exist.

Who It's Ideal For—and Who It's Not So Ideal For

Ideal if you want cultural density without needing a mountain range for it: three Riemenschneider altars, a Cistercian monastery from 1151, the headquarters of the Teutonic Order, two Renaissance palaces, a fortified church with frescoes from 1297 and one of the best-known old towns in Europe over 177.8 kilometers — no other German Way of St. James offers that. Ideal if you want to plan your pilgrimage: between Wertheim (km 34.4) and Niederstetten (km 137.6) the Tauberbahn runs alongside you and stops in Bronnbach, Gamburg, Tauberbischofsheim, Lauda, Bad Mergentheim, Markelsheim and Weikersheim — you can cut any day short, skip it or walk it as a day trip. And ideal if you like wine: the route crosses Franconia, Baden and Württemberg as wine regions and passes cooperatives that were not built for coaches.

To be honest, though, it's not for you if you expect a flat river valley: 3,721 meters of ascent over 177.8 kilometers is 21 per kilometer, twice as many as on the Mittelfränkischer Jakobsweg, and they come in short, steep ramps — 835 meters on the first day alone. Not for you if you are after hostel romance: there is no pilgrim hostel, no communal kitchen, no mattress for twelve euros, you sleep at the inn at German prices. Not for you if you want solitude all the way to the finish — from Detwang on you have company, and in Rothenburg a great deal of it. And not for you if you need signposts with distances: the scallop shows only the direction, and only one.

Route & Landscape

Three landscapes, clearly separated. Main and the edge of the Odenwald (km 0–34.4): Start at the Main bridge in Miltenberg (134 m), red sandstone old town, half-timbering, St. Jakobus with its six bells. Via Bürgstadt (km 2.6) downstream to Freudenberg (km 9.7) with the castle ruin above the river — and then the route leaves the Main for the rest of the day: up via Rauenberg to 403 meters (km 15), down into the Wildbach valley to 197 meters, back up onto the heights near Mondfeld and via Grünenwört (km 29.7) down to Wertheim (km 34.4, 157 m), where the Tauber flows into the Main. The operator routes its line here via Boxtal; our map stays above, Boxtal lies four kilometers off the route. 835 meters of ascent on the first day — more than on any other stage.

Tauber valley (km 34.4–125.0): Now comes what the route was built for: shell-limestone slopes, vineyards, orchard meadows, every few kilometers a village with a church that can do more than it lets on from outside. But here too the route does not stay down low. From Wertheim it goes via the Hofgarten (km 37.0, 270 m) to Urphar (km 41.0), over the Jungheidsiedlung (321 m) down to Bronnbach (km 46.3) and Gamburg (km 51.6). Then it climbs onto the heights and leaves Niklashausen, the village of the 40,000 pilgrims of 1476, two kilometers below in the valley; via Hochhausen (km 59.5), Impfingen (61.9), Dienstadt (67.0, 278 m) and Königheim (69.4) it reaches Tauberbischofsheim (km 74.6). From here it gets gentler: Grünsfeldhausen (81.6), Gerlachsheim (88.1), Lauda (89.7), the vineyards of Beckstein (94.5) and Sachsenflur, Bad Mergentheim (km 108.9), Igersheim, Markelsheim (117.5) and Weikersheim (km 125.0, 238 m).

Hohenlohe plateau and upper Tauber valley (km 125.0–177.8): Beyond Weikersheim the route leaves the Tauber altogether. It climbs via Laudenbach to the Bergkirche (334 m), on via Honsbronn (km 130.0, 376 m) into the Vorbach valley to Niederstetten (km 137.6) and up onto the plateau: Rehhof (439 m), highest point 454 meters at km 140.1, Wermutshausen, Oberndorf, Standorf, Münster — farmland, wide horizons, little shade, hardly anywhere to stop. Only at the Kohlesmühle does the route drop to the Tauber, and in Creglingen (km 154.7, 272 m) you are back in the valley. The final stage is the finest: the upper Tauber valley via Archshofen, Tauberzell with vines on the slopes, Bettwar and Detwang (km 175.9, 336 m), then the final climb — around 75 meters of ascent over 1.7 kilometers up to Rothenburg (410 m), passing beneath the west choir of St. Jakob.

Stages, Terrain, and Difficulty

We divide the route into eight stages averaging 22.2 kilometers — Camino Ninja system: stage towns on the chain, every one with beds, seven of eight with a railway stop. The kilometers come from the Camino Ninja map, calibrated exactly to the 177.8 kilometers of our route data; the operator gives 180.6 kilometers in nine stages, and the difference lies almost entirely in the first section with its detour via Boxtal. The surface is good-natured: field, forest and farm tracks, asphalt through the villages and along the Tauber, nothing exposed. What demands effort are the ramps out of the valley — short, steep, often two or three a day. We calculated the elevation per stage from the point heights of the chain.

1. Miltenberg – Wertheim (34.4 km) — St. Jakobus, Bürgstadt, castle ruin of Freudenberg (km 9.7), Rauenberg (403 m), Wildbach valley, Mondfeld heights, Grünenwört; ↗ 835 / ↘ 807 m. The hard opener — whoever wants to split it must branch off four kilometers to Boxtal or stay in Freudenberg.
2. Wertheim – Gamburg (17.2 km) — Hofgarten (270 m), Jakobskirche Urphar (km 41.0), Jungheidsiedlung (321 m), Kloster Bronnbach (46.3), Burg Gamburg; ↗ 370 m. Short, but the stage richest in content — plan for time, not kilometers.
3. Gamburg – Tauberbischofsheim (23.0 km) — heights above Niklashausen, Hochhausen (km 59.5), Impfingen with its St. James fountain, Dienstadt (278 m) with St. Jakobus, Königheim; ↗ 518 m. The most demanding stage of the Tauber valley, two stiff ramps.
4. Tauberbischofsheim – Lauda-Königshofen (15.1 km) — double octagon of Grünsfeldhausen (km 81.6), Grünsfeld, Gerlachsheim; ↗ 239 m. The shortest and easiest.
5. Lauda-Königshofen – Markelsheim (27.8 km) — vineyards of Beckstein (km 94.5) and Sachsenflur (278 m), Bad Mergentheim (108.9, palace of the Teutonic Order), Igersheim; ↗ 582 m. The longest — neatly divisible in Bad Mergentheim after 19.2 km.
6. Markelsheim – Niederstetten (20.1 km) — Schloss Weikersheim (km 125.0), Bergkirche Laudenbach (334 m), Honsbronn (376 m), Vorbach valley; ↗ 381 m. Farewell to the Tauber.
7. Niederstetten – Creglingen (17.1 km) — Rehhof (439 m), highest point 454 m (km 140.1), Wermutshausen, Standorf, Münster, Kohlesmühle; ↗ 264 m. Plateau stage with no reliable place to stop — carry water and provisions.
8. Creglingen – Rothenburg ob der Tauber (23.1 km) — Herrgottskirche (km 154.7), Craintal, Archshofen, Tauberzell (163.8), Bettwar, Detwang (175.9), final climb to Rothenburg; ↗ 533 m. The finale — the last kilometer is the steepest of the day.

Three Riemenschneiders — and at Least One Is in the Wrong Place

The final 23.1 kilometers of this route are a museum with three rooms. In Creglingen (km 154.7), in the Herrgottskirche, stands Tilman Riemenschneider's Altar of the Virgin, 9.20 meters high, 3.68 meters wide, with an Assumption of Mary on which, every year on August 25, the light falls through the west rose window. In Detwang (km 175.9), in St. Peter und Paul, a church older than Rothenburg, stands his Altar of the Cross. And in Rothenburg (km 177.6), in St. Jakob, stands the Holy Blood Altar, dated by the contract with the master of April 15, 1501 and finished in early 1505 — with a Last Supper in whose center stands Judas, and whose figure can be lifted out. Three works, all from around 1505, on two consecutive days.

Except: two of them may not be standing where they belonged. The Detwang Altar of the Cross certainly comes from a church in Rothenburg — probably the demolished Michaelskapelle or the Dominican nuns' church — and was moved out to the village. And in the case of the Creglingen Altar of the Virgin, the art historian Holger Simon doubts the traditional dating of 1505–1508 as well: he takes the altar to be a work made in 1496 for Rothenburg that came to Creglingen only after the Reformation. „Die Sachlage ist bislang nicht abschließend geklärt.“ — the matter has not yet been conclusively settled. So you are walking an art-history whodunit — in reverse order, from the presumed exile back to the presumed place of origin.

Why all of this stands here of all places has a solid reason: in the Middle Ages Rothenburg was a pilgrim station on the route from Denmark to Rome and Santiago, and in 1311 the Teutonic Order laid the foundation stone of St. Jakob because too many pilgrims were passing through. The Zwölfbotenaltar of 1466 shows the legend of St. James on its reverse panels — and the oldest known view of the town. To be honest, that is the only medieval piece of pilgrim evidence on this route: for St. James confraternities in Tauberbischofsheim or pilgrim processions through the Tauber valley there is no charter that we have been able to find. The St. James churches from Urphar to Niederstetten are genuine; the route that connects them dates from 2009.

Highlights Along the Way

• St. Jakobus in Miltenberg (km 0.7) — starting church with origins in the 13th century, remodeled in the neoclassical style, choir flanking towers 1829–1831; six bells, after Würzburg Cathedral the mightiest peal in the diocese; altarpiece of 2004 with the calling of James and John
• Burg Wertheim (km 34.4) — rocky spur above the confluence of Main and Tauber, built from the second half of the 12th century, occupied and shot to pieces by the Swedes in 1634; open from 9 am until dusk, admission €2.00 (as of September 2026); in the town the glass museum and the image of St. James in the Stiftskirche
• Jakobskirche Urphar (km 41.0) — the quietest masterpiece of the route: defensive tower from the 8th century, nave 1296/97, churchyard wall once with battlements and arrow slits; the frescoes from around 1297, uncovered in 1949–1953, gave the „Meister von Urphar“ his working name and show St. James the Greater
• Kloster Bronnbach (km 46.3) — founded 1151, secularized 1802, today museum, archive and café in the orangery; the Cistercians brought viticulture to the Tauber valley, and Bronnbach wine shipments went as far as Cologne
• Burg Gamburg (km 51.6) — in 1986 the castle's owner found wall paintings from around 1200 beneath the plaster, with scenes from Friedrich Barbarossa's crusade of 1189/90, according to the castle the oldest secular wall paintings north of the Alps; open only April to November on weekends and public holidays 2:00–6:30 pm (as of September 2026)
• St. Jakobus Dienstadt (km 67.0) — rebuilt in 1783 on choir foundations from the 14th century, onion dome, seven steps for seven sacraments; in front of it the St. James fountain with the saint as a pilgrim, a second one stands in Impfingen (km 61.9)
• St. Achatius Grünsfeldhausen (km 81.6) — Romanesque double octagon from the end of the 12th century modeled on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, today four meters below ground level, with the smallest sacristy in the district — built into the organ
• St. Jakobus Lauda (km 89.7) — built in the Gothic style 1322–1333, rebuilt by Julius Echter in 1608 except for the choir, burned down on December 28, 1694, rebuilt by 1709; statue of the church's patron saint
• Tauberschwarz in Beckstein (km 94.5) — grape variety, first mentioned in the 16th century, considered extinct until remnant vines were found in Ebertsbronn in 1959; today in Slow Food's Ark of Taste
• Residenzschloss Bad Mergentheim (km 108.9) — from 1525 to 1809 seat of the grand masters of the Teutonic Order, Deutschordensmuseum since 1996, palace church by Balthasar Neumann; on October 13, 1826 the shepherd Franz Gehrig discovered the healing spring, and since August 2, 1926 the town has carried the title „Bad“ — a double anniversary in 2026
• Schloss Weikersheim (km 125.0) — Renaissance palace of the House of Hohenlohe from 1595, knights' hall with a self-supporting ceiling, Baroque garden with around 100 stone figures and the only completely preserved dwarf gallery of any Baroque garden
• Bergkirche Laudenbach (km 128) — pilgrimage church on the heights above the village, foundation stone 1412, consecrated 1459, Adoration of the Magi from the Riemenschneider school, heart tomb of 1685; Eduard Mörike stood here in 1845
• Herrgottskirche Creglingen (km 154.7) — endowed in 1389 after a host was found while plowing, Riemenschneider's Altar of the Virgin; admission €4.00, reduced €3.50, families €10.00 (as of September 2026); opposite, the thimble museum
• St. Peter und Paul Detwang (km 175.9) — founded between 961 and 984, Rothenburg's parish church until 1258, Riemenschneider's Altar of the Cross
• St. Jakob Rothenburg (km 177.6) — foundation stone 1311, consecration 1485, west choir 1453–1471 built across the street; Holy Blood Altar, Zwölfbotenaltar of 1466, Rieger organ of 1968 with more than 5,000 pipes; Jakobsstein in front of the Burgtor since 2009

The Village with 200 Inhabitants and 40,000 Pilgrims

On the third stage you walk up over the heights while down in the valley lies Niklashausen, two kilometers off the route, around 200 inhabitants, one railway stop. In 1476 this was the scene of the largest pilgrim movement this region has ever seen. The shepherd and piper Hans Böhm from Helmstadt reported an apparition of the Virgin and preached that the grace to be had in the Tauber valley was as great as that in Rome — and, along with it, against tithes, forced labor and the privileges of the clergy; hunting and fishing were to be free for all. In May and June around 10,000 people came per week, in mid-July around 40,000 on a single Sunday.

On July 12/13, 1476 Prince-Bishop Rudolf II. of Würzburg had him arrested; 12,000 to 16,000 followers marched on Würzburg and were dispersed at Waldbüttelbrunn, up to 40 died. On July 19, 1476 Hans Böhm was burned as a heretic. The pilgrimage had lasted three months. Whoever makes the detour finds a village on the Tauber and no memorial — and afterwards understands better why the Church built so many churches in this landscape.

How Pilgrims Find Their Way onto This Path

Miltenberg is a junction on the Main. Through the town runs the Jakobsweg Aschaffenburg–Colmar, which comes up the Main from the Stiftskirche St. Peter und Alexander in Aschaffenburg and continues via Amorbach into the Odenwald; whoever wants to arrive on foot from the Rhine-Main region thus has a feeder of around two day stages (there is no Camino Ninja page for it yet). More common is the train: the Maintalbahn connects Aschaffenburg via Miltenberg with Wertheim, and from Frankfurt you are at the start in a good two hours.

The third option is to unroll the route from the back. Because several St. James routes converge in Rothenburg — the Mittelfränkische Jakobsweg from Nuremberg (99.3 km) and the Fränkisch-Schwäbische Jakobsweg from Würzburg (80.4 km to Rothenburg) all arrive there —, some walk the Main-Taubertal route as a continuation northwest to the Main. The marking is set only in the direction of Rothenburg, but with a GPS track it works all the same. And one more clarification: there is no separate „Jakobsweg Odenwald“ with Rothenburg as its destination — what is usually meant is the Nordroute des Jakobswegs Rothenburg–Speyer, which leads from Kloster Schöntal through the Odenwald to Sinsheim.

Continue the pilgrimage?

Rothenburg is a hub, not a dead end. To the south you stay on the Fränkisch-Schwäbischen Jakobsweg: Rothenburg lies at its kilometer 80.4, to Ulm it is another 192 kilometers via Crailsheim and the Ostalb, looked after from Rothenburg onward by the Schwäbischer Albverein; in Ulm the Oberschwäbische Jakobsweg takes over to Lake Constance and with it the connection to the Swiss routes to Geneva. To the southwest the Jakobsweg Rothenburg–Rottenburg leads in 199 kilometers via Schwäbisch Hall and the Rems valley to the Neckar; from there on as Rottenburg – Freiburg – Héricourt to France or via the Beuroner Jakobsweg to the Danube.

To the west runs the Jakobsweg Rothenburg–Speyer, 184.6 kilometers via the Hohe Straße, the Jagst valley and Bad Wimpfen to the Rhine, with the Odenwald northern route from Schöntal as a variant; in Speyer the Palatinate routes toward Alsace connect. Whoever combines the Main-Taubertal route with the Rottenburg route and the way to Freiburg has a continuous line from the Main to the French border. To Santiago it is around 2,500 kilometers from Rothenburg — most take Ulm, Lake Constance and the Swiss Way of St. James to Geneva.

Preparation & Practical Information

Fitness and stages. 3,721 meters of ascent over eight days averages 465 a day, but they are not spread evenly: day 1 has 835, day 5 582, day 8 533, day 3 518. Whoever trains on flat ground at home underestimates the ramps. The first stage cannot be split cleanly on our alignment — Boxtal lies four kilometers off, Freudenberg comes too early after 9.7 kilometers; whoever does not want the 34.4 takes the Maintalbahn from Freudenberg-Kirschfurt to Wertheim and starts there. Stage 5 you split in Bad Mergentheim (19.2 + 8.6 km) and attach the remainder to Weikersheim (16.1 km).

Waymarking and navigation. The white scallop on blue is there, but it is no fully comprehensive insurance: no distance figures, only the direction of Rothenburg, thin in places in forests and villages. Download the GPX track from the Camino Ninja map and take an offline app with you. The guidebook by Günther E. Ascher (2013) follows the operator's alignment with the Boxtal detour, not ours.

Accommodation, passport, stamps, doors. Book ahead in Gamburg and Markelsheim (few beds) and everywhere on weekends; in Rothenburg early on summer Saturdays. The pilgrim passport of the Deutsche St. Jakobus-Gesellschaft in Aachen is available online for a requested donation of €10, allow three weeks (as of September 2026); you need it for nothing here, and later in Spain for everything. Eight stamp locations are documented — Miltenberg, Boxtal, Weikersheim, Rothenburg among others —, and parish offices, town halls and inns stamp too if you ask; in Tauberbischofsheim the Hotel Badischer Hof. And plan for the doors: Burg Gamburg opens only on weekends and public holidays from April to November, the Deutschordensmuseum is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, St. Jakob in Rothenburg is open only 11 am–2 pm from January to March and in November. On stage 7 carry two liters of water and provisions.

What the journey will cost you

Budget for it like a week of hiking, not like the Camino Francés. Firmly documented (as of September 2026): Burg Wertheim €2.00, Herrgottskirche Creglingen €4.00 (reduced €3.50, family €10.00), guided tour of Burg Gamburg €70 flat rate or from seven people, pilgrim passport €10 donation. The Deutschordensmuseum and St. Jakob in Rothenburg charge admission, check the amounts on site — we quote no figure we cannot back up.

The main item is the bed: an inn or guesthouse with breakfast in the region runs, in our experience, to €45–70 per person in a double room, €55–90 in a single, in Rothenburg and Bad Mergentheim rather more; the youth hostels in Creglingen and Rothenburg are the cheapest option. Dinner at the inn €15–25, provisions from the bakery €5–10. Realistic for eight days with an inn and a hot meal: €600–850 plus travel there and back — with the Deutschlandticket, the train to Miltenberg and back from Rothenburg via Steinach is often the cheapest item of the whole trip.

Getting Here

To the start (Miltenberg): the Maintalbahn (KBS 781, Westfrankenbahn) connects Aschaffenburg via Miltenberg with Wertheim; from Frankfurt or Würzburg with one change. By car via the A3 (exit Wertheim or Stockstadt) and the B469 through the Main valley. From the station to the Main bridge it is ten minutes.

Along the way and from the finish: from Wertheim to Niederstetten the Tauberbahn (KBS 782, Wertheim – Lauda – Bad Mergentheim – Crailsheim, running through since October 23, 1869) travels almost alongside the route and stops in Kloster Bronnbach, Gamburg, Niklashausen, Hochhausen, Tauberbischofsheim, Lauda, Königshofen, Bad Mergentheim, Igersheim, Markelsheim, Weikersheim, Laudenbach and Niederstetten. After that it swings away south: Creglingen has no station, and the last two stages you reach only on foot, by bus or by taxi. Rothenburg has a station on the branch line from Steinach (b Rothenburg o.d.T.) with a change in Würzburg or Ansbach; the old town is reachable on foot, driving ban at night 7 pm–6 am. Airports: Nuremberg 90 km, Stuttgart 165 km, Frankfurt 175 km.

• Rail: bahn.de — Maintalbahn Aschaffenburg – Miltenberg – Wertheim, Tauberbahn Wertheim – Crailsheim, Steinach – Rothenburg
• Operator: imsuedenganzoben.de — Tourismusverband „Liebliches Taubertal“, official stages and GPX
• Pilgrim passport: deutsche-jakobus-gesellschaft.de — Deutsche St. Jakobus-Gesellschaft Aachen, online application
• Stamp locations: unterwegs-nach-santiago.eu — eight documented stamps along the route
• Finish: rothenburg.de — St. Jakob, opening hours, Holy Blood Altar