Holy Way

The Holy Way (German: Heilige Weg) came about as a result of the canonization of Bishop Benno of Meissen. It led from Bohemia to Meissen and ran between Grillenburg and Wilsdruff in the present-day district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge in the opposite direction and parallel with the Saxon St. James' Way (Sächsischen Jakobsweg). Original sections of the route have survived, for example in the Tharandt Forest between Grillenburg and Spechtshausen.

St. James' Church, Wilsdruff (today a motorway church) with memorial garden (Ehrenfriedhof)
Reconstructed forest sign marking the Princes' or Lords' Way (Fürstenweg or Herrenweg) in the Tharandt Forest
Hunters' column in the Tharandt Forest
Leichen Weg via Forder Goersdorff, section of an 18th-century map
Pilgrim's cross in the Tharandt Forest

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Coordinates: 50°58′44″N 13°31′40″E / 50.9790°N 13.5278°E / 50.9790; 13.5278

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