The E1 is a European long-distance hiking trail and starts at the North Cape in Norway and leads over Sweden and Denmark to Germany. From here the path crosses the Alps and ends in the south Italy.
background
The E-ways
The European long-distance hiking trails are a project of the European Hiking Association (ERA-EWF-FERP). Other names for European long-distance hiking trails are E-Path or Eurorandomee, E1 to E12 for short. The EWF is an umbrella organization of national and regional hiking clubs that are responsible for marking and maintaining the E-Path in their area.
At the time when the EWF was founded in 1969, the E-Path began with the idea of an element that unites people in Europe. Today the network of European long-distance hiking trails has a theoretical extension of 60,000 km. A hiker would be on the road for almost 17 years if he walked 20 km of the E-Path 180 days a year. Of course, this is all very hypothetical.
Certainly not correct as a general statement, but helpful for understanding: The long-distance hiking trails are made up of known, shorter hiking trails and matching connecting elements. And so they can also be used, in sections; as a partial ascent and the superordinate Eurorandomee is the virtual bracket.
A first Overview offers the website of the EWF, for more information please contact their partners Traildino pointed out. In order to get detailed information, the interested hiker is dependent on many individual sources of information, for example printed hiking guides, websites of the local associations and tourism agencies. The almost 50-year-old project is far from over. On-site paths are changing, being abandoned or re-marked. The fact that once the facts are read do not necessarily have to match other sources and that the situation on site is presented differently again should not come as a surprise against this background.
The E 1
The E1 begins at the North Cape and offers a good impression of the varied landscapes in Europe: Treeless tundra in Norway, Sweden and Lapland. Over the ridges of the Scandinavian peninsula, hills of southern Sweden, Jutland through the north of Germany, the low mountain ranges in Germany, the Black Forest. The E1 crosses the Alps, meets the Po plain with the city centers from the Roman period, leads through the high mountains of the Italian peninsula, where the E1 rises very high. At its southern end point then Sicily with a subtropical climate. The total length of the route will be 7,000 km or around 350 daily stages.
Parts of the route, for example in Lapland and in southern Italy, have not yet been agreed or not yet marked. The marked part of the E1 begins in the middleSweden runs through the country to southern Sweden.
- (Parts are in the article Kungsleden already described).
At Gothenburg he goes over the route Denmark and achieved at Flensburg the German border. In Germany the E1 runs in two variants (one with the European long-distance footpath E6 and one with the European long-distance hiking trail E9) to Hamburg. In the amount of Hamelin the E1 crosses the E11, and around Frankfurt am Main the E3 and at Heidelberg the two variants of the E8. In Constancy and Kreuzlingen, the E1 crosses the Swiss border and the E4. At San Gottardo the highest point in the Alps is reached after which the E1 passes through Ticino descends after Lugano in the Italian Po plain. Not far from Genoa de E1 begins with a long section through the Apennines, who as far as is known until Naples is marked.
preparation
A helpful preparation list can be found in the article Way of St. JamesAs on the sister trails, the official signage is rarely used, but mainly those of the local hiking trails over which the E1 runs.
getting there
Please check the regions, cities or airports.
Norway
The starting point is that
- 1 North Cape in Norway
Sweden
- On the hiking trail Södra Kungsleden, of 1 Grövelsjön to Halls (160 km).
- On theVasaloppsledenthat of the route of the well-known w: Wasalaufs follows, from 2 Halls to Mora (90 km).
- On the Siljansleden, of Mora to Leksand (70 km).
- On the Sméleden, from Leksand to the village Balls in the nature reserve (120 km).
- On the Bergslag Trail, from Kloten to Stenkällegården (280 km).
- On the Västra Vätterleden, of Stenkällegården to Mullsjö (148 km).
- On the Redvägsleden, of Mullsjö to Ulricehamn (to Gothenburg 162 km).
- On the Sjuhäradsleden, of Ulricehamn to Borås.
- On the Pop talk, of Borås to Hindås.
- On the Vildmarksleden, of Hindås to Madernameer.
- On the Bohusleden, from the Madernameer Gothenburg and from Gothenburg to Blåvättnerna (to Varberg 100 km).
- On the Hallandsleden, of Blåvättnerna to Varberg.
Denmark
- Mols routeopenstreetmap, from Grenå to Århus Mols route. Map in pdf format (80 km);
- Hiking route Århus - Silkeborg (67 km)
- Hærvejen / Heerenweg / Ochsenweg, from Varts to the German border Ochsenweg. The route between Viborg and Germany can be printed out on maps 1: 50,000. (250 km)
Germany
Kupfermühle (at Flensburg) to Tired at the Örtze WF 1057 compass: EFWW E1 North Sea-Bodensee-Gotthard. ISBN 3-85491-707-4 (614 km)
From Heidelberg over Titisee and the Feldberg to Kappel. Through the Black Forest on the Westweg, which is considered to be the oldest German long-distance hiking trail.
In Constancy the E1 changes to Switzerland.
Switzerland
- ViaJacobi (Wanderland Route 4 / Schwabenweg), from Kreuzlingen to Einsiedeln.
- Trans Swiss Trail (Wanderland Route 2), from Flüelen to Morcote.
Italy
- Ligurian high path (Alta Via dei Monti Liguri).
security
These are safe travel countries. However, the dangers that can be confronted on a daily basis are sunburn and ticks that lurk for victims in forests and meadows. The tick-borne bacteria that can cause Lyme disease have now been detected in the entire E1 area. The Borrelia bacterium can only be stopped by treatment with antibiotics. You can protect yourself against the other disease caused by a virus, the TBE, by vaccinating yourself well in advance of your trip. (Incidentally, raw milk can also be infected with this pathogen). You should be checked or checked for ticks every evening.
In northern Sweden, the low population density poses a danger. Often you walk for days through deserted areas and have to carry food with you (there is water in the form of streams, rivers and snow). You should also plan your overnight stays carefully, especially if you don't want to carry a sleeping bag with you. This precise planning naturally also applies to the Apennines. Crossing the Alps on the Gotthard Pass in the Switzerland however, it is safe and relatively easy.
Other dangers along the route are negligible: Big game such as bears and wild boars are usually very shy. Rabies, which may be found in rabbits, is also rather rare.
Go on
literature
Web links
- European hiking club
- Wanderable Germany
- Hiking Association Germany
- "Hiking Europe" - Information on the E1 from the North Cape to Central Italy: Stages, GPS data (GPX), accommodation, maps, markings and literature (in German and English)
- Route in Germany Detailed descriptions of the stages from Flensburg to Konstanz with GPX tracks (GPS data), route sketches, elevation profiles and photos
