Herbstliches Dorf im Bergtal mit Morgennebel

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Cur­rent infor­ma­ti­on about the Har­zer Wandernadel.

Hand hält Heft mit gesammelten Stempeln

Station 4: 16.10.–15.12.2025 Seelenpfad, Herzberg

Dear hiking fri­ends, From 16.10.2025 – 15.12.2025, the hiking stamp box will be at its4. Sta­ti­on of the hiking sea­son 2025 The See­len­pfad near the Herz­berg Cli­nic offers a 1.2 km cir­cu­lar hiking trail. This con­tem­pla­ti­ve hike takes you to beau­tiful loca­ti­ons whe­re signs with poems and sayings as well as ben­ches invi­te you to lin­ger.  The small public par­king lot next to the Heli­os Cli­nic in Herz­berg is a good start­ing point for the hike. Oppo­si­te is the ent­rance to the forest, which runs to the next fork. Turn right the­re and…

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Engagement Island

HWN 116 Engagement Island locked!

Sta­te forestry fel­led dan­ge­rous trees in the Oker val­ley  Fede­ral high­way 498 bet­ween Wald­haus and Rom­ker­hal­le and Ver­lo­bungs­in­sel ful­ly clo­sed from August 5 to 7 (Claus­­thal-Zel­­ler­­feld) The Lower Sax­o­ny Forestry Office in Claus­thal is remo­ving trees in the Oker Val­ley for traf­fic safe­ty reasons. For this pur­po­se, a sec­tion of the fede­ral road 498 will be ful­ly clo­sed from August 5 to 7, 2025. The enga­ge­ment island loca­ted in the Oker stream bed with the Har­zer Wan­der­na­del stam­ping sta­ti­on will also be inac­ces­si­ble. The sec­tion of the rou­te from the Oker bus loop…

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Hand hält Heft mit gesammelten Stempeln

Station 2: 16.06.–15.08.2025 Deserted Hohenrode, Grillenberg

Dear hiking fri­ends, The hiking stamp box has rea­ched its 2nd sta­ti­on for this sea­son today and is alre­a­dy wai­ting for the first hikers. Hohen­ro­de is a medieval deser­ted sett­le­ment in the area of the pre­­sent-day vil­la­ge of Gril­len­berg. It was archaeo­lo­gi­cal­ly inves­ti­ga­ted bet­ween 1935 and 1937. The sett­le­ment can be dated to the 12th to 14th cen­tu­ry. Based on the remains of the walls  the ground plans of the medieval farm­steads are cle­ar­ly visi­ble. We recom­mend start­ing the hike from the Gril­len­berg hiking par­king lot and fol­lo­wing hiking trail 60b, marked…

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Donations handed over for reforestation in the Harz Mountains

Donations handed over for reforestation in the Harz Mountains

ARTUS dona­tes on the occa­si­on of the com­pany’s 10th anni­ver­sa­ry In view of the exten­si­ve tree dama­ge cau­sed by drought, storms and bark beet­les in recent years, the­re has been a gro­wing com­mit­ment to dona­ti­ons and tree plan­ting cam­paigns from pri­va­te indi­vi­du­als and com­pa­nies. The web­site of the „Der Wald ruft“ („The forest is cal­ling“) initia­ti­ve hel­ped with inqui­ries and sup­port opportunities. 

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Silhouette of trees and hills at night