Hiking route
Braunschweiger Jacobsweg
263.8 km· ↗ 2359 m· asphalt· waymarked· Easy trail· Regional route
Passes through: Germany 264 km (Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt)
The trail is in Lower Saxony. A 264 km point-to-point route: the finish is not where you started. It runs from “Magdeburg” to “Höxter”. Total ascent is about 2359 m. Elevations along the way range from 49 to 353 m. The trail is waymarked on the ground.
This description is assembled from OpenStreetMap data and our own terrain calculation.
Surface
- asphalt — 99.3 km (37%)
- gravel — 68.7 km (26%)
- paving stones — 26 km (10%)
- concrete — 17.2 km (6%)
- dirt — 16.1 km (6%)
- paved — 3.6 km (1%)
- other — 2.1 km (1%)
- not recorded — 32 km (12%)
Surface data comes from OpenStreetMap tags on the route's ways.
Who is allowed
- MTB difficulty: S1
The OpenStreetMap mtb:scale, where 0 is an easy path and 6 is barely rideable. The route shows its HARDEST section.
Trail geometry and data come from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Check them on the ground: waymarking can go out of date.