Adventure trail 2 Eastern Harly

You walk up the Bärental from Wöltingerode, as already described in Adventure Trail 1. About 50 m past the Kräuter-August cave, you turn right. You follow several curves of the middle path and soon the path leading steeply upward to the left to the Harly Tower crosses your way. You climb up and reach a noticeable terrain kink at a resting bench, where the path ascends more steeply. Here lies the boundary between the (soft) rocks of the Röt and the hard limestones of the Lower Muschelkalk.

Soon you reach the ridge trail, on which you hike westward to the highest point of the Harly at 255.9 m elevation, where the Harly Tower stands. After a break, you return eastward along the high trail. On the ridge, you see old parallel stone quarries in the Muschelkalk to the right. Presumably, limestone was extracted here for the construction of the church in Beuchte, located immediately north of the Harly, which is built about half from Rogenstein and half from fossil-bearing limestones of the Lower Muschelkalk.

You reach Lengder Höhe at 250.9 m above sea level, south above the village of Lengde. From a bench in the clearing of the beech forest, you have a wide view to the north. Soon you reach Gottsched Square. A large edge-rounded boulder of light Nordic granite with a memorial plaque stands on it. Just behind Gottsched Square, the Lower Muschelkalk steps back to the north at a transverse fault, making the ridge line appear bent towards the north. The ridge now descends.

From the ridge trail, you reach the Burggrund via a cross path, through which the easternmost part of the Harly with the Harly Castle is separated from the rest of the Harly. You follow the path in the Burggrund down to the south. From the west, the middle path meets your way. About 50 m uphill on it, there is a small quarry with light impure gypsum from the Röt on the right. You are now in the Upper Buntsandstein, characterized by a depression in the terrain where sinkholes on leached gypsum in the subsoil occur. Soon we reach the forest edge at Shaft I, where reddish sandy clays and thin sandstones are exposed on the right.

You keep right - here at the forest edge lies the remnant of the collapse funnel that formed in 1930 during the flooding of the mine. From here, you hike westward along the Hercynia Trail parallel to the old railway embankment.

On the left is Vienenburg, and above the town's houses stands the bergfried of the old Vyneburch (= Vienenburg) built around 1300. Immediately to its left rises the tower of the evangelical church, further left the Catholic church tower. In good weather, the Brocken over the Harz can be seen. At former Shaft II, we can visit the already described Schloenbach Monument and now have the choice to take the Harly ridge trail to the old forestry office or the Hercynia Trail directly to Wöltingerode, where a beautiful view of the monastery church and the portal of the main entrance to the Wöltingerode monastery estate welcomes you.

Direct connection from Goslar via the B6 to Wöltingerode

Parking lot at the Klosterkrug inn at Wöltingerode Monastery

RBB bus: Line 822, Goslar - Vienenburg - Lengde - Beuchte

BUND - Regional Association Westharz
Petersilienstr. 23, 38640 Goslar
Tel. 05321 4696075
Email: bund.goslar@bund.net
www.bund-westharz.de

Tip!Download the brochure "The Harly - From Wöltingerode to the Muschelkalk ridge"