Stamping point 124 / Köte am Heidestieg

The Köte am Heidenstieg is located in the Schulenberg forest on the edge of the village above Schulenberg.

The old Schu­len­berg, locat­ed in the val­ley, was once a min­ing and smelt­ing set­tle­ment, lat­er a for­est work­ers’ set­tle­ment and sank in the floods of the Oker dam in 1954. The vil­lage was rebuilt above the dam on a plateau of the Wiesen­berg at an alti­tude of 500 meters. 

From the park­ing lot on the Tan­nen­höhe, fol­low the fit­ness trail to the Köte on the Hei­den­stieg. For the way back, we rec­om­mend the for­est nature trail, from which you have excel­lent views over the Harz mead­ows to the Brock­en mas­sif, the Bruch­berg and the Wolfswarte. 

The dis­play boards and carved ani­mal fig­ures along the way pro­vide infor­ma­tion about the flo­ra and fau­na of the for­est and are par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ing for families.