The Great German Pilgrimage of 1064–1065 brought thousands of pilgrims from the German kingdom towards Jerusalem. The journey passed through Hungary, the Balkans, Constantinople, and the eastern Mediterranean. It revealed both the vitality and the danger of long-distance pilgrimage shortly before the First Crusade.

The pilgrimage is linked with the Ezzolied, an important work of early Middle High German religious poetry. It shows how movement across languages and sacred geographies could generate vernacular poetic expression before crusading literature fully emerged.