Walking the Camino de Santiago in Germany rather than Spain

For example, I know that you can also hike the Camino from Munich. The route goes to Lindau, and I can imagine it being fantastic and not nearly as crowded as Spain. But so far, I haven't managed to do much more than visit the church in Munich's old town, where the pilgrimage begins :-)

Thank you, I really enjoyed the article and learning more about the walk! Though I think I would prefer to bike the Moselle, downhill of course, staying at some nice inns along the way....

There is a route that goes from Fulda to Mainz also, or along the Rhein. There are many routes. They have guidebooks for them at Globetrotter or perhaps from Hugendubel.

Please do not believe the stuff about the Camino Frances being too crowded. I walked many days almost alone or for many hours and I was walking in high season right after Easter 3 years in a row. The Portugues Caminos are not even close to being too crowded either.

Here is a map to find the routes you want. There won't be any kind of infrastructure and you will be lucky to find any kind of directional arrows. Have only seen them along the Main in Frankfurt and a few places on the Rhein.
https://www.deutsche-jakobswege.de/wege-uebersicht.html

There isn’t just one route thru Germany as Ms. Jo’s map shows. I’ve run across the scallop markers in at least 3 towns

That's true about there being more routes; I think the article just focused on one.

I still remember a hike above Gengenbach I went on several years ago, only to find out last year (from Nigel, I think) that it was part of the Camino. That was the first time I realized that the Camino was not just in Spain. :-) And I was a bit excited to find out that I had walked the Camino, even if it was only for a mile or two, lol!

Ms. Jo's map doesn't include the one I am considering, the Via Romea I:
https://camino-europe.eu/en/eu/deutschland-en-US/neue-weiterleitungsseite/

If you tack on the Via Jutlandia from Ms. Jo's map, you get a route clear through the entire country.

Just curious if the route through Germany and France is also marked with the scallop shells? I cant access the article if it's mentioned in there.

I didn't see anything about it, stan. I think you have to enter your email to access it. I just use a fake email for stuff like that.

Thanks Mardee. I cant imagine walking any of it, but would be nice to recognize the shell signage if I come across it.

stan, it looks like it's in every country. The Germans call them Jakobsmuscheln. Here's a nice little article about it: https://caminoways.com/the-scallop-shell-and-the-camino-de-santiago

@Stan, last summer a friend came to visit me, and he had never heard of the Camino de Santiago. Of course, here in La Rioja, which is on the Camino, there are scallop shells everywhere. When he went back home to Amsterdam, he started to see them. He often goes to to Belgium or Germany for long weeks ends, and he often finds scallops and sends me photo.

A few years ago, there was a pilgrim staying at the church hostal here in Logroño. He had a stress fracture in his foot so had to rest here for a bit. He had left Krakow Poland on the July 26th (St. James Day) and got to Logroño in mid December. Instead of going through Germany, he went south through Austria, into and across the north of Italy and the south of France, then across the north of France.

Just curious if the route through Germany is also marked with the scallop shells

Yes :-) http://ruediger-jakobsweg.de/muenchner-jakobsweg/

As I wrote above, I only made it to the church of St. Jakob am Anger in Munich, where the 'Münchner Jakobsweg' begins. But I did manage to take this photo on the church's outside wall: https://www.flickr.com/photos/calabrones/53473141498/in/album-72177720313204929

That's a lovely photo, Mignon! Thank you for sharing it! And I snuck a peek at your other photos and they are beautiful! Are you a professional photographer?

Thank you so much, Mardee.

Photography is just a hobby. I currently have four more years of work to do before I retire, but then I'll probably rarely be seen without my camera :-)