View larger size Valerie's Way / Elisabeth's Way You’re following the footsteps of Austria’s Empress Elisabeth (Sissi) if you stroll across the catwalk over the tracks at Karl’s Gate Station and enter the narrow Valerie's Way / Elisabeth's Way. This path winds its way uphill close against granite formations to Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg, not far from where the latter meets the Elisabethenweg. These two paths take their names from Empress Elisabeth and her daughter Valerie, who often spent lengthy periods together in Heidelberg between 1883 and 1890.