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Jean-Paul-Weg

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Germany200 km · 124 mi

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7-day forecast

Open-Meteo · trail point · local dates · last updated Nov 11, 2026, 3:10 PM PT

Thu 12

Rain showers

10°C / 2°C

70% · 1.9 mm

Wind 16 km/h

Poor

Fri 13

Rain showers

5°C / 0°C

5% · 0.0 mm

Wind 17 km/h

Fair

Sat 14

Partly cloudy

5°C / 0°C

0% · 0.0 mm

Wind 9 km/h

Good

Sun 15

Light rain

8°C / 0°C

8% · 0.3 mm

Wind 14 km/h

Fair

Mon 16

Light rain

8°C / 6°C

44% · 2.7 mm

Wind 24 km/h

Fair

Tue 17

Light rain

10°C / 5°C

52% · 4.1 mm

Wind 23 km/h

Fair

Wed 18

Light rain

11°C / 8°C

51% · 1.3 mm

Wind 21 km/h

Fair

Route

10 kmN ↑

Route line © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), simplified. Dot: trail point.

About this trail

The Jean-Paul-Weg is a 150 km hiking trail in Germany in honour of the writer Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (1763–1825), leading through the Franconian Forest, Fichtel Mountains, and Little Switzerland.

From the Wikipedia article “Jean-Paul-Weg”, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Trail facts

Length
200 km · 124 mi (OpenStreetMap distance tag)
Countries
Germany
Continent
Europe
Trail point
50.37171, 11.83889 (OpenStreetMap route (first mapped point))
OSM network
Regional walking network
Wikidata
Q1685118
OpenStreetMap
relation 163086

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Photo: “Weißer Main bei Karches - panoramio.jpg” by G. Zapf, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).

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