The Hansjakob Way I (german: Hansjakobweg I), also called the Little Hansjakob Way (''Kleiner Hansjakobweg''), is a three-day circular walk in the Central Black Forest in

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. It begins and ends in Schapbach, a village in the municipality of

Bad Rippoldsau-Schapbach Bad Rippoldsau-Schapbach ( Low Alemannic: ''Ribbeldsau-Schaba'') is a municipality in the district of Freudenstadt in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Geography The Municipality is located in the black forest in the Wolftal valley, 15&n ...

, between

Wolfach Wolfach ( gsw, label= Low Alemannic, Wolfä) is a town in the Black Forest and part of the Ortenaukreis in Baden-Württemberg (Germany). It is a well-known spa town. Geography Geographical Position Wolfach lies where the two rivers Wolf and ...

and

Freudenstadt Freudenstadt (Swabian: ''Fraidestadt'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is capital of the district Freudenstadt. The closest population centres are Offenburg to the west (approx. 36 km away) and Tübingen to the eas ...

. The roughly 44-kilometre-long

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is named after the Baden author and parish priest, Heinrich Hansjakob (1837–1916). The path was opened in 1981 and is sponsored and maintained by the

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. The walk runs to the settings for Hansjakob's stories, ''Erzbauern'' (1899), ''Waldleute'' (1897) and ''Abendläuten''. The waymark is a white diamond with a black Hansjakob hat, the headwear in which Hansjakob is portrayed in many contemporary pictures and photographs. At all the sights along the way, information boards have been erected, that relate mainly to the life and stores of Hansjakob.

Day tours/stages

First Stage: Schapbach – Wittichen Abbey – Schenkenzell

Schapbach – Schmiedsberger Platz – Kaltbrunner Tal – Wittichen Abbey (12.5 kilometres) – Vortal – Schenkenzell (16.5 kilometres)

Second Stage: Schenkenzell – St. Roman – Wolftal (Gasthaus Ochsen)

Schenkenzell – Wittichen Abbey – Salzlecke –

Heubach Heubach is a town in the Ostalbkreis district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located 10 km east of Schwäbisch Gmünd, and 13 km southwest of Aalen. The town finds itself at the edge of the Rems River Valley and at the base o ...

– Teufelstein – St. Roman ( Sulzbächletal) – Kohlplatz – Bäch – Schapbach – Wolftal (Gasthaus Ochsen) (22.5 kilometres – from Wittichen Abbey only 18.5 kilometres)

Third Stage: Wolftal – Wildschapbach – Schapbach

Wolftal (Gasthaus Ochsen) – Schwarzenbruch (

Oberwolfach Oberwolfach ( gsw, label= Low Alemannic, Obberwolfä) is a town in the district of Ortenau in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the site of the Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics, or Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach. Ge ...

) – Hirschbach – Wildschapbach – Schapbach (13 kilometres) Schapbach.gif, View of the onion towers of Schapbach St. Roman 001.jpg, Bergdorf

-St. Roman Hansjakobstein Schwarzenbruch.jpg, Hansjakob Rock on the Little Hansjakob Way on the Schwarzenbruch

Literature

* Martin Kuhnle: ''Schwarzwald Mitte/Nord.'' Bergverlag Rother, Munich, 2013, , pp. 154–165.

External links

Black Forest hiking service
web facility of the Black Forest Club for visualising the Black Forest trails on Google Maps with various overlays (trail network, waymarks, accommodation, …) {{Authority control Hiking trails in Baden-Württemberg Freudenstadt (district) Transport in the Black Forest