Stamp point 69 / Sonnenklippe (Bodetal)

The Sonnenklippe (280 m above sea level) is a rocky outcrop in the Bode Valley, near Treseburg.

At the begin­ning of the 19th cen­tu­ry, the Bode Val­ley was still a pris­ti­ne, almost impregnable gor­ge. The­re were no hiking trails at that time, so the only way to enter the rug­ged val­ley was along the river­bed of the Bode. The first nar­row hiking trails were crea­ted with the incre­asing deve­lo­p­ment of tou­rism around 1818. 

Boun­da­ry stones show that the Bode was once a bor­der river. The right side of the river belon­ged to the King­dom of Prus­sia, the left side abo­ve the Bode basin to the Duchy of Braun­schweig. The Bode Val­ley bet­ween Tha­le and Tre­se­burg was declared a natu­re reser­ve as ear­ly as 1937. 

The best start­ing point is the par­king lot on the Bode in Tre­se­burg. From the­re, fol­low the Har­zer-Hexen­steig in the direc­tion of Tha­le and you will reach the Son­nen­klip­pe after 1 km. It is a good idea to con­ti­nue the hike through the Bode Val­ley to the Hirsch­grund Inn HWN 178.