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Imprint

Information according to § 5 TMG

Regional Association of Saarbrücken
Regional Development and Planning Service
Castle Square 1-15
66119 Saarbrücken

Contact

Phone: 0049 681 / 506-0
Fax: 0049 681 / 506-1390

Editorially responsible

Peter Michael Lupp
Regional Association of Saarbrücken
Schlossplatz 16
66119 Saarbrücken
Phone 0049 681 / 506-6060
E-mail peter.lupp@rvsbr.de

The most important information about the European model project

Current project information
Criteria for inserting a stone scallop
Current project space as a map

Idea / concept / texts / images / overall editing

Peter Michael Lupp, Regional Association of Saarbrücken

Collaboration / collection and management of the database / digitization / coordination

Karoline Schmidt and Lukas Koeppen, Saarbrücken Regional Association

Graphic editing / images / database capture / coordination

Elke Birkelbach, Gersheim

Origin of the digitized routes

The underlying digitized trail routes of the viewing area “Starry Path/Chemin des étoiles”, or this website, were created based on the recording of the trail routes in the folding map “Starry Path/Chemin des étoiles”. They were merged with data from the Tourismus Zentrale Saarland, the Pfalz Touristik, the St. Jakobus-Gesellschaft Rheinland-Pfalz-Saarland e.V., the Fédération Française de la Randonnée Pédestre as well as the French St. James Societies (Les Amis de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle en Lorraine et en Alsace) and the Regionalverband Saarbrücken, processed and supplemented with the information relevant for this project.

Support

The positioning and recording of the scallop stones and the associated GPS data and addresses of the individual locations, as well as the digitization of the path routes in the networking zone, have thankfully been actively supported by the following people:

Palatinate

Dr. Trude Hard (deceased 2013), Wolfgang Steffen (also Saarland), Karl Unold, Wolfgang and Inge Schwarz, Berno Stahl, Roland Zick, Hildegard Becker-Janson (St. James Society Rhineland-Palatinate-Saarland e.V.)

Lorraine

Germain Schuler (Fédération Française de la Randonnée Pédestre, Les Amis de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle en Lorraine)

Alsace

Evelyne Studer, Bernhard Denner (Les Amis de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle en Alsace)

Historical images

Myth of the Way of St. James: “Abriss über die glaydtstraß”, hand drawing, 2nd half 16th century with the kind support and permission of the Landesarchiv des Saarlandes.

Myth of the Way of St. James, Santiago de Compostela: The “Golden Legend” or “Burial of Jacobus”, Altar Wing (Master of Raigern, 1420), today Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, AKG images/Erich Lessing Scenes from the Codex Calixtinus: Dream of Charlemagne, Charlemagne enters Spain, Archive of the Cathedral, Santiago de Compostela/Área de Documentación Moderna y Contemporánea, Archivo Catedral de Santiago Bishop Teodomiro discovering the tomb of the Apostles, Codex Calixtinus, Archive of the Cathedral, Santiago de Compostela/Área de Documentación Moderna y Contemporánea, Archivo Catedral de Santiago

Myth of the Way of St. James, Camino Stellarum: Representation of the Dream of the “Starry Path”, Shrine of Charlemagne, Aachen, Cathedral Treasury, Detail James refers Charlemagne to the Starry Path, Grandes Chroniques de Saint-Denis, Bibliothèque Municipale de Toulouse.

Myth of the Way of St. James, meaning of the scallop shell: The Jacob Brothers, Jost Ammann, woodcut (1568), INTERFOTO St. James as a pilgrim, Jacob Matham (1571-1631), Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Production of paternoster cords. Nuremberg City Library, Amb. 317.2°, f. 13r

Photos

Prolog, Under the Milky Way: Milky Way over the Titlis and the Bernese Alps, taken from the Stanserhorn near Lucerne, Alessandro Della Bella, www.helvetiabynight.com

Myth of Jacob’s Paths, Camino Stellarum: 360-degree panoramic view of the Milky Way taken from Death Valley National Park, Public domain: Dan Duriscoe, U.S. National Park Service

Literature

Dehio Georg: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Deutscher Kunstverlag 1984.

The authors of this website specifically grant the right of use to make private copies from this website for personal purposes. However, there is no authorization to change and/or pass on the texts and images for this purpose or even to publish them oneself. The copyrights for texts and photographs are held by the Regionalverband Saarbrücken.

Important note

This website is part of the documentation and public relations for the European cultural and landscape project “Starry Path/Chemin des étoiles” and reflects the entire project area (core zone and networking zone).

The project was able to rely, in addition to the official partners (see below), on the committed participation of the districts, cities, municipalities, tourist institutions and service providers, those responsible for medieval churches, the regional churches and monasteries, the St. James societies (see below) and finally also the population on the edge of the paths of the pilgrims of St. James in the project area. In particular, also many - especially young - people, in the context of their further education and qualification have participated in this employment-political culture and landscape project.

The folding map “Starry Path/Chemin des étoiles” (project status 2011) and a complete documentation of the same name in the form of an illustrated book (from summer 2014) form a further building block for public relations work, or documentation and provide the primary sources for this website.

The folding map (from summer 2014 also the complete documentation) is available on request from the Regionalverband Saarbrücken, Tourist Information in Saarbrücken Castle, Schlossplatz 1-15, 66119 Saarbrücken, Tel. 0049 681 / 5 06-60 06, touristinfo@rvsbr.de.

In connection with the contents of this website, full reference is therefore also made to the imprint published in the fold-out card.

Summarized extract of the imprint of the European cultural and landscape project “Starry Path/Chemin des étoiles” (updated to project status 2014):

Project sponsor/Partner

The European cultural and landscape project “Starry Path/Chemin des étoiles” was developed in 2006 in the Saarbrücken Regional Association for the careful cross-border valorization of the European paths of the pilgrims of St. James in cooperation with the Saarpfalz district.

Implementation and partners

In order to implement the project idea in terms of employment policy, the ARGEs of the Saarbrücken regional association and the Saarpfalz district set up job opportunities (AGH) on the basis of Hartz IV, which were realized by the Zentrum für Bildung und Beruf Saar gGmbH in Burbach and the AQUIS Saarpfalz as the measure provider responsible for the area. The co-financing was provided by the European Social Fund (ESF). The artist Till Neu supported the project in the core zone in an advisory capacity. The implementation was completed in a first phase in the so-called core zone of the project (paths of the pilgrims of St. James from Hornbach via Saarbrücken/Saarguemines to Metz) in 2010.

Under the sponsorship of the Regional Association of Saarbrücken, the project has been successively further networked since 2011 with regard to the relocation of the waymarkers “Jacobean shellstones” at testimonies of medieval architectural culture at the edge of the paths of the pilgrims of St. James in the neighboring regions of Palatinate, Lorraine (Eurodistrict), Alsace with significant support of the St. James societies (networking zone).

The scallop stones required for this purpose will continue to be manufactured at the Zentrum für Bildung und Beruf Saar gGmbH in Saarbrücken Burbach (ZBB) as part of employment policy measures.

In cooperation with the St. James Society Rhineland-Palatinate-Saarland e.V., the Fédération Française de la Randonnée Pédestre as well as with the French St. James Societies (Les Amis de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle en Lorraine et en Alsace), the positioning and installation of the scallop stones on the paths of the St. James pilgrims in the Palatinate, Lorraine and Alsace was determined and realized (see above). They were also instrumental in the acquisition of the GPS data and the digitization of the itineraries in the networking zone.

Central tourist cooperation partners

Saarland Tourist Board, Saarpfalz-Touristik, Pfalz Touristik

Thank you

To all those who have contributed to the European cultural and landscape project “Starry Path/Chemin des étoiles”, we extend our thanks and appreciation for their commitment and valuable support!