Stamping point 118 / Kästehaus

The name “Käste” comes from Old High German and means oak. In the past, crossbows, bows and spears were made from this hard wood. 

The Kästek­lippe is one of the many gran­ite cliffs in the Oker Val­ley and is acces­si­ble as a view­ing cliff. The cliff is also a prime exam­ple of the weath­er­ing of wool sacks typ­i­cal of the Harz moun­tains, where the rocks are round­ed off by weath­er­ing so that they look like wool sacks. The strik­ing rock for­ma­tion “Der Alte vom Berge”, which can be found here, is par­tic­u­lar­ly impressive. 

From the van­tage point, we have a fan­tas­tic view over the entire Oker valley.

From the Romk­er­halle park­ing lot below the Oker dam, you should first take the hik­ing trail to the Romk­er­hall water­fall. From the water­fall, a beau­ti­ful cir­cu­lar tour leads over the Feigen­baumk­lippe, Mause­falle, Hex­enküche, Käste­haus and on to the Trep­pen­stein HWN 117.

The stamp box is locat­ed at the cross­roads north of the Käste­haus, next to the bus stop.