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HarzerHexenStieg from Altenbrak to Thale

Thale, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

HarzerHexenStieg from Altenbrak to Thale

Length11.5 mi
Elev. Gain616.6 ft
Est. Steps26000

Forest

River

Scenic views

Mountain

Rocky

Created by Detlef
Introduction
HarzerHexenStieg from Altenbrak to Thale is a 11.5 mile (26,000-step) route located near Thale, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. This route has an elevation gain of about 616.6 ft and is rated as hard. Find the best walking trails near you in Pacer App.
Wunderbar und leicht bewanderbare Route. Tolle Strecke entlang der Bode.

Hexentanzplatz (Harz)

Place
The Hexentanzplatz (literally “Witches′ Dance Floor”) in the Harz mountains is a plateau (454 m above sea level (NN)), which lies high above the Bode Gorge, opposite the Rosstrappe in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Bode Gorge

Place
The Bode Gorge (German: Bodetal) is a 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) long ravine that forms part of the Bode valley between Treseburg and Thale in the Harz Mountains of central Germany. The German term, Bodetal (literally "Bode Valley"), is also used in a wider sense to refer to the valleys of the Warme and Kalte Bode rivers that feed the River Bode.

Bode Valley Gondola Lift

Place
The Bode Valley Gondola Lift (German: Bodetal-Seilbahn) is a gondola lift built between 1969 and 1970 by the Czechoslovak collective combine Transporta Chrudim as a joint project with PGH Elektrotherm Quedlinburg in the vicinity of Thale in the Harz mountains in Lower Saxony, Germany. It runs from its valley station at a height of 183 metres (600 ft) above sea level to the top station on the plateau of Hexentanzplatz ("Witch's Dancing Place"), which is 428 metres (1,404 ft) high.

Homburg Watchtower

Place
The Homburg Watchtower (German: Homburgswarte) is an observation tower on the site of a Germanic refuge castle (Fliehburg) near the Hexentanzplatz above the town of Thale in the Harz Mountains of central Germany.

Königsruhe

Place
Königsruhe (also Gut Königsruhe i.e. Königsruhe Estate) is a small settlement in the Bode Gorge in the Harz Mountains of Germany, south of the town of Thale in Saxony-Anhalt.

Rosstrappe Chair Lift

Place
The Rosstrappe Chair Lift (German: Rosstrappe-Sessellift) is a 559 metre-long single-seater chair lift built in 1980 by the firm of Chrudrim. It runs from Thale in the Bode Gorge taking eight minutes to reach the rock massif of the Rosstrappe.The Rosstrappe Chair Lift climbs 250 metres over a length of 668 metres.

Thale Hauptbahnhof

Place
Thale Hauptbahnhof is a station on the Magdeburg–Thale railway in the town of Thale in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station. The only other station in Thale is the stop at Thale Musestieg, although there used to be three stations in Thale on a branch of the Blankenburg–Quedlinburg railway, which was opened in 1908 and was closed in the 1960s.

Hotel Waldkater

Place
The Hotel Waldkater was a famous hotel in the Bode Gorge in the Harz Mountains of Germany.

Hubertus Spring

Place
The Hubertus Spring (German: Hubertusquelle) is a "healing spring" (Heilquelle) in the Harz Mountains of central Germany whose waters contain radon. It rises on Hubertus Island (Hubertusinsel or Große Salzstrominsel), which is about 2 hectares in area, near Thale, immediately at the exit of the River Bode from the Harz Mountains.

Schurre

Place
The Schurre (pronounced "shoorer") is a stone run in the Bode Gorge in the Lower Harz near Thale in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The stone run is slowly slipping downhill, the sliding of its boulders being audible especially during periods of heavy rain.Its name has been given to a much-frequented trail, blazed in 1864 between the Bode Gorge and the legendary Rosstrappe site.
Route Details

Length

11.5 mi

Elev. Gain

616.6 ft

Est. Steps

26000
Created by
Detlef
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