Westwards with the Jakob pilgrims

From Schwarzenburg station, first head to the main road in the town center. The closely built houses reveal Burgundian influence. Hidden in the town center is the former early mass chapel of St. Maria Magdalena, built in 1463 and counted among the Swiss art monuments. It was subject to the Teutonic Knights of Köniz, who decreed that no baptismal or death sacraments were to be administered in the "Chäppeli". Since 1963, the church with its shingled pyramid tower has been used ecumenically. On the main road, head towards Bern but soon turn off towards the wide height of Wart. Historically interesting is the paved section of the old "Fryburg Stras" leading down into the Sense Gorge. The Sodbach Bridge is a work by the renowned Bernese bridge-building pioneer Robert Maillart (1872–1940). Hikers usually prefer the covered wooden bridge built in 1867. From Sodbach, the climb to the height is again paved. Castle (now a schoolhouse) and church dominate the sunny village of Heitenried, from where you enter the land of the wayside chapels. Magnificent is the view over the gentle rolling hills of the Swiss Plateau to the Chasseral Range from the Winterlingen farm group. The church towers of St. Antoni confirm that this was once an important pilgrimage route. Via Wyssebach and Zum Wald, you reach the Brunnenbergrain viewing platform, from where the view of the Schwarzsee region is particularly beautiful (10 min to Tafers with a notable church, cemetery chapels, and the Sensler local museum). At Chrüz, the Jakob path and Galter Gorge path separate (Jakobs path to Maggenberg–Schönberg–Fribourg/Saane bridge 1 h). A special treat awaits with the especially idyllic path through the Galter Gorge starting from Ameismüli (not passable in winter). It leads over small wooden bridges, footbridges, and many stair steps continually up and down into the gorge's depths and to the Palme bus stop of line 4 in the picturesque old town of Fribourg.