diff --git a/web-bundle/src/main/java/com/graphhopper/http/GpxMessageBodyReader.java b/web-bundle/src/main/java/com/graphhopper/http/GpxMessageBodyReader.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..25812b793a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web-bundle/src/main/java/com/graphhopper/http/GpxMessageBodyReader.java
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+package com.graphhopper.http;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper;
+import com.graphhopper.jackson.Gpx;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.Consumes;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.ext.Provider;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.core.MultivaluedMap;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.ext.MessageBodyReader;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
+import java.lang.reflect.Type;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+@Provider
+@Consumes({"application/gpx+xml", "application/xml"})
+public class GpxMessageBodyReader implements MessageBodyReader<Gpx> {
+    final private XmlMapper xmlMapper = new XmlMapper();
+    @Override
+    public boolean isReadable(Class<?> type, Type genericType, Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType) {
+        return type == Gpx.class;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Gpx readFrom(Class<Gpx> type, Type genericType, Annotation[] annotations, MediaType mediaType,
+                        MultivaluedMap<String, String> httpHeaders, InputStream entityStream) throws IOException
+    {
+        return xmlMapper.readValue(entityStream, Gpx.class);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/web/src/main/java/com/graphhopper/application/GraphHopperApplication.java b/web/src/main/java/com/graphhopper/application/GraphHopperApplication.java
index 791351dc01..0c98596aa7 100644
--- a/web/src/main/java/com/graphhopper/application/GraphHopperApplication.java
+++ b/web/src/main/java/com/graphhopper/application/GraphHopperApplication.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 import com.graphhopper.application.cli.MatchCommand;
 import com.graphhopper.application.resources.RootResource;
 import com.graphhopper.http.CORSFilter;
+import com.graphhopper.http.GpxMessageBodyReader;
 import com.graphhopper.http.GraphHopperBundle;
 import com.graphhopper.http.RealtimeBundle;
 import com.graphhopper.navigation.NavigateResource;
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ public void initialize(Bootstrap<GraphHopperServerConfiguration> bootstrap) {
     public void run(GraphHopperServerConfiguration configuration, Environment environment) {
         environment.jersey().register(new RootResource());
         environment.jersey().register(NavigateResource.class);
+        environment.jersey().register(GpxMessageBodyReader.class);
         environment.servlets().addFilter("cors", CORSFilter.class).addMappingForUrlPatterns(EnumSet.allOf(DispatcherType.class), false, "*");
     }
 }