Stamp point 145 / Schmidts – Monument

Schmidts-Denkmal (607 m above sea level) is located between the Polsterberg parking lot near Clausthal-Zellerfeld and Kammschlacken.

It com­me­mo­ra­tes the roy­al mili­ta­ry poli­ce offi­cer August Schmidt, who was atta­cked by two poa­chers on June 2, 1849 and back­st­ab­bed with an axe. Serious­ly inju­red, Schmidt drag­ged hims­elf to Kamm­schla­cken, whe­re he suc­cum­bed to his inju­ries eight days later. Howe­ver, Schmidt had reco­gni­zed one of the poa­chers by the pecu­li­ar color of his skin and so the „Yel­low Wag­go­ner“ was exe­cu­ted by the sword in Göt­tin­gen on 28 May 1850. 

The memo­ri­al to August Schmid­t’s col­le­agues and fri­ends was erec­ted on the site of the tra­gic attack.

The shor­test hiking trail leads from the Pols­ter­berg par­king lot along the wide forest road and then fol­low the signs to the right to the monument.