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Sta­te forestry fel­led dan­ge­rous trees in the Oker val­ley  Fede­ral high­way 498 bet­ween Wald­haus and Rom­ker­hal­le and Ver­lo­bungs­in­sel ful­ly clo­sed from August 5 to 7 (Claus­­thal-Zel­­ler­­feld) The Lower Sax­o­ny Forestry Office in Claus­thal is remo­ving trees in the Oker Val­ley for traf­fic safe­ty reasons. For this pur­po­se, a sec­tion of the fede­ral road 498 will be ful­ly clo­sed from August 5 to 7, 2025. The enga­ge­ment island loca­ted in the Oker stream bed with the Har­zer Wan­der­na­del stam­ping sta­ti­on will also be inac­ces­si­ble. The sec­tion of the rou­te from the Oker bus loop…

Dear hiking fri­ends, The hiking stamp box has rea­ched its 2nd sta­ti­on for this sea­son today and is alre­a­dy wai­ting for the first hikers. Hohen­ro­de is a medieval deser­ted sett­le­ment in the area of the pre­­sent-day vil­la­ge of Gril­len­berg. It was archaeo­lo­gi­cal­ly inves­ti­ga­ted bet­ween 1935 and 1937. The sett­le­ment can be dated to the 12th to 14th cen­tu­ry. Based on the remains of the walls  the ground plans of the medieval farm­steads are cle­ar­ly visi­ble. We recom­mend start­ing the hike from the Gril­len­berg hiking par­king lot and fol­lo­wing hiking trail 60b, marked…

  Sub­ject to chan­ge. The­re are also spe­cial events in the monas­te­ries, see all events at www.harzerklostersommer.de

Dear hiking fri­ends, From the begin­ning of 2025, we will move our nume­ri­cal stam­ping sta­ti­on num­ber 149 from the old loca­ti­on „Klei­ne Oker“ to the new loca­ti­on „Müh­len­berg Alten­au­er Herz­weg“.N 51.803286 E 10.450144 We wish you lots of fun hiking and coll­ec­ting stamps. Your Har­zer Wan­der­na­del team

Our ope­ning hours for the 2024 public holi­days 24.12. Christ­mas Eve Clo­sed 27.12. 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. 30.12. 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. 31.12. New Year’s Eve Closed

Dear hiking fri­ends, The Har­zer Wan­der­na­del Com­mu­ni­ty App is available to you as a digi­tal tool for on the go! It offers you the per­fect over­view of your per­so­nal stamp coll­ec­tion, gui­des you to the indi­vi­du­al stamp boxes with the coor­di­na­tes and pro­vi­des a descrip­ti­on for each stamp loca­ti­on. The app is always up to date and is regu­lar­ly updated by deve­lo­per Yan­nick Weiß­flog in con­sul­ta­ti­on with us. The app is only a tool and does not replace the ana­log hiking pass! Click here to go to the Goog­le Play Store:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.hwn.community&pcampaignid=web_share Click here to go…

ARTUS dona­tes on the occa­si­on of the com­pany’s 10th anni­ver­sa­ry In view of the exten­si­ve tree dama­ge cau­sed by drought, storms and bark beet­les in recent years, the­re has been a gro­wing com­mit­ment to dona­ti­ons and tree plan­ting cam­paigns from pri­va­te indi­vi­du­als and com­pa­nies. The web­site of the „Der Wald ruft“ („The forest is cal­ling“) initia­ti­ve hel­ped with inqui­ries and sup­port opportunities.