Partner
Beuroner Jakobspilger-Gemeinschaft
The community behind the Via Beuronensis, founded in 2008 at Beuron Archabbey: it waymarks and looks after the Camino routes between the Neckar, the Danube and Lake Constance, issues pilgrim passports and runs the pilgrim office.
The Caminos on the map
Caminos of this partner
Beuroner JakobswegThe Beuroner Jakobsweg runs 105.7 kilometers from Tübingen on the Neckar to Meßkirch, via Rottenburg, Hechingen and Balingen up onto the Swabian Jura and down into the gorge of the Upper Danube to Beuron Archabbey. It is the route that gave its name to the Via Beuronensis, which a Beuron monk began waymarking in 2004 and which Santiago has recognized since 2009. Six stages, 1,830 meters of climbing, high point 951 meters on the Alb escarpment between Weilstetten and Tieringen. In Meßkirch, the Linzgauer Jakobsweg takes over toward Lake Constance.Explore this Camino- Linzgauer JakobswegThe Linzgauer Jakobsweg covers 63.2 kilometers from Meßkirch to Konstanz, passing Wald Abbey, the old free imperial city of Pfullendorf and the rolling hills of the Linzgau before dropping down to Überlingen on Lake Constance. There you board a boat to Wallhausen and walk along the shore via Litzelstetten to Konstanz Minster. Three stages, 718 meters of climbing, and a high point of 725 meters near Aftholderberg beyond Pfullendorf. It is the final section of the Via Beuronensis, and in Konstanz the Via Jacobi takes over.Explore this Camino
- Hegauer JakobswegThe Hegauer Jakobsweg runs 71.5 kilometers from Kloster Wald to Konstanz, the western branch of the Via Beuronensis down to Lake Constance. It passes through Stockach, the carnival town on the edge of the Hegau, drops down to Ludwigshafen and Bodman on the Überlinger See, crosses the Bodanrück ridge by the Mindelsee and follows the Gnadensee via Allensbach and Hegne to Konstanz Minster. Three stages, 828 meters of ascent, and a high point of 697 meters in the forest between Mindersdorf and Ursaul. In Konstanz the Via Jacobi begins its run through Switzerland.Explore this Camino
- Ulm – PfullendorfThe Ulm – Pfullendorf route is Route E of the Via Beuronensis, also called the Habsthaler Jakobsweg by the association that maintains it: 96.6 kilometers from Oberdischingen on the Danube via Munderkingen, the Bussen—the Holy Mountain of Upper Swabia—Bad Saulgau and Sießen Abbey to Habsthal Abbey and the old Free Imperial City of Pfullendorf. For the first 21-odd kilometers from Ulm Minster you walk the Oberschwäbischer Jakobsweg; in Oberdischingen you turn west. Five stages, 864 meters of ascent, the high point on the Bussen. In Pfullendorf the Linzgauer Jakobsweg takes over toward Lake Constance.Explore this Camino
Who stands behind the route
The Beuroner Jakobspilger-Gemeinschaft grew out of a monastery. From 2004 a monk of the Archabbey of St Martin in Beuron and a project group put up the first shells between the Neckar and Lake Constance – out of gratitude for the help he himself had received on the way to Santiago, as the community tells it. In 2008 the community was founded, and in 2009 the Via Beuronensis was recognised in Santiago.
Its address is still the monastery gate in Beuron, and the pilgrim year begins and ends at the abbey: in spring the pilgrim office opens, in autumn the community meets for its annual closing with a pilgrim walk in the Danube valley, High Mass in the abbey church and the members' meeting.
The association's routes
The Via Beuronensis is a whole bundle of routes leading from Tübingen and Ulm to Konstanz. You'll find four of them on Camino Ninja:
- Beuroner Jakobsweg – 105.7 km from Tübingen via Rottenburg, Hechingen and the Swabian Alb to Beuron Archabbey and on to Meßkirch, the main line that gave the network its name
- Linzgauer Jakobsweg – 63.2 km from Meßkirch via Kloster Wald and Pfullendorf to Überlingen and by boat across to Konstanz
- Hegauer Jakobsweg – 71.5 km from Kloster Wald via Stockach and Bodman along Lake Überlingen to Konstanz, the western variant
- Ulm – Pfullendorf – 96.6 km from Ulm via the Bussen, Bad Saulgau and Kloster Habsthal to Pfullendorf, the network's youngest line
The network is waymarked with a yellow stylised shell on a blue background; its focal point shows the direction – and only towards Konstanz. From there, according to the community, it is another 2,340 kilometres to Santiago. Its website also presents other pilgrim routes, such as the Martinusweg, the Meinradweg to Einsiedeln and the Ulrikaweg.
What the association does for pilgrims
The heart of it is the pilgrim office in Beuron in the monastery bookshop by the abbey church, open daily from May to October 8:30 am–5:30 pm, in winter from 9:30 am (as of October 2026). There you get your pilgrim passport, stamp and advice; by 2022 the office had, by its own count, already issued more than 2,000 pilgrim passports. A second pilgrim office in Sigmaringen opens on Saturday mornings from April to October. You can also order the pilgrim passport by post all year round: print the application form from the website and send it with the fee to Beuron.
If you document at least 100 kilometres between Tübingen and Konstanz with stamps, you receive the community's pilgrim certificate – free of charge, donations welcome, in person at the pilgrim office or in writing with return postage (as of October 2026). Volunteer pilgrim sponsors look after sections of the route and keep an eye out for pilgrim-friendly inns. Throughout the year the community also invites you to taster pilgrimages, pilgrim walks and an Advent walk with a devotion by the fire.
Contact and getting involved
Website: via-beuronensis.de with routes, events, travel tips and the application form · Email: kontakt@via-beuronensis.de · Address: Klosterpforte, Abteistr. 2, 88631 Beuron. Members take part in the annual closing in autumn; if you live along the route or know it well, you can take on a section as a pilgrim sponsor.