The imperial cathedral is also the starting point of the Palatinate Jacob’s Path, which leads along a northern and a southern path through unspoiled nature and interesting places up to the Hornbach Monastery. The ‘Pirminiusland’ region is named after its founder, St.Pirminius.
In the Hornbach Historama Museum the history of the monastery and the region can be discovered and experienced through very animated forms of multimedia.
The German shoe manufacturing metropolis of Pirmasens was built on seven hills. It too owes its name to St. Pirminius, the founder of the nearby Hornbach Mon as tery. Along the Jacob’s Path in Palatinate, picturesque winegrowing villages, impressive castle ruins are to be found and wonderful views of the charming landscape to be enjoyed.
The beauty of nature surrounding the Jacob’s Path in Palatinate between the cathedral and imperial city of Speyer and the Hornbach Monastery can also be experienced by car.
It is possible to choose from the approx. 78 mile long northern route and the approx. 82 mile long southern route.
The southern route leads from Speyer via Germersheim, Ruelzheim, Herxheim, Lan dau (beautiful old part of town), Bad Bergzabern (mineral spring), Birken - hoerdt, Lauterschwan, Erlenbach, Rum - bach, Fischbach, Schoental, Eppenbrunn, Kroeppen and Riedelberg to Hornbach.
The northern route also begins in Speyer, and leads via Neustadt, Johanniskreuz, Breitenau, Queidersheim, Landstuhl, Haupt stuhl, Bechhofen, Rosenkopf, Kaes hofen, Kirrberg, Zweibruecken, Rim schweiler and Althornbach to Hornbach.
