Stamp point 168 / Triangular pole

The “Dreieckige Pfahl” is a historic boundary stone in the Harz National Park and is located between Torfhaus and Oderbrück.

Orig­i­nal­ly, the stone marked a bor­der tri­an­gle, then the bor­der between the King­dom of Hanover and the Duchy of Braun­schweig and lat­er the bor­der between the GDR and the Fed­er­al Repub­lic of Ger­many. Today, the state bor­der between Low­er Sax­ony and Sax­ony-Anhalt runs along this point. 

There used to be a man­aged hut near the tri­an­gu­lar pile, but it was burnt down in 1945. Today there is a refuge on this site, which also hous­es the stamp box. 

From the cross­roads, a path leads south to the Wurm­berg, north to the Brock­en, east via Sand­brinkstraße to Schierke and west to Oder­brück and the ceme­tery of hon­or for vic­tims of the Sec­ond World War.

The short­est route leads from the small park­ing lot at the ceme­tery of hon­or to the tri­an­gu­lar pile, from where you can con­tin­ue the hike to Brock­en HWN 9 or Wurm­berg HWN 156.