Stamp point 174 / Hohnehof

The “HohneHof” nature experience center is located approx. 1 km from the Drei Annen Hohne train station above the large forest meadows on the edge of the national park.

As ear­ly as the 17th cen­tu­ry, the numer­ous clear­ings and for­est mead­ows of the Hohne area were used for graz­ing and Count Hein­rich Ernst zu Stol­berg had a sim­ple shel­ter built for his shep­herds in 1668.

In Sep­tem­ber 1805, Baron Joseph von Eichen­dorff vis­it­ed the “Count of Stol­berg’s Mey­er­hof” on a hike, which was con­sid­ered a rest­ing place for Brock­en pil­grims at the time.

The first forestry office was estab­lished in the mid­dle of the 19th cen­tu­ry and remained the head­quar­ters of the Hohne dis­trict forestry office until 2004. After the trans­fer to the Harz Nation­al Park, the con­ver­sion to the Hohne­Hof Nature Expe­ri­ence Cen­ter could begin, which was offi­cial­ly opened in 2011. 

The Hohne­Hof sees itself as a link and medi­a­tor between cul­tur­al land­scape and wilder­ness. Here, bridges are built between oppo­sites — between leg­ends, myths, his­tor­i­cal forms of life and use on the one hand and nat­ur­al dynam­ics, bio­di­ver­si­ty and wilder­ness on the other. 

The nation­al park rangers pro­vide infor­ma­tion about the spe­cial fea­tures of the nation­al park and also offer fairy­tale hikes through the “leg­endary moun­tain wilder­ness”. The dan­de­lion dis­cov­ery trail is par­tic­u­lar­ly pop­u­lar with the youngest vis­i­tors in the imme­di­ate vicin­i­ty of the Hohne­Hof. On this hands-on trail, you can explore nature alone or accom­pa­nied by our rangers at eight stations. 

Our vis­i­tor café offers you a small selec­tion of food and drinks and invites you to relax and refresh your­self in a cozy atmos­phere while the chil­dren go on an adven­ture tour in the exten­sive grounds.

There are many pop­u­lar hik­ing des­ti­na­tions around the Hohne­Hof. Depend­ing on your fit­ness lev­el, you can choose longer or short­er cir­cu­lar routes, e.g. the Leis­ten­klippe HWN 15 or the Ottofelsen HWN 27.

From the hik­ing park­ing lot in Drei Anne Hohne, fol­low Kas­tanien­allee on the oppo­site side of the road to HohneHof.

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