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title: "HE1 route of the giants"
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description: "Challenging day route with long climbs to the Hanskühnenburg and the Großer Knollen. At both summits, the huts there invite you to stop for refreshments. Additionally, there are excellent views over the Harz landscape. Overall, the route mainly runs on forest roads. At the end of the tour, a detour to the Steinkirche near Scharzfeld is worthwhile, an impressive medieval cave that is considered the oldest church in the Harz."
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HE1 route of the giants
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- 41.68 km long
- Round trip
- Difficulty: difficult
- Condition: difficult
- Great panorama
- Mountain bike

The Acker with its bizarre rock formations

- 4:30 h
- 41.68 km
- 914 m
- 914 m
- 236 m
- 810 m
- 574 m
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- Start: Tourist Information, Marktplatz 32, 37412 Herzberg. Also accessible from Lonau and Sieber

The mountain-valley route leads from the southern edge of the Harz up to the highest elevations of the southern Harz.

Challenging day route with long climbs to the Hanskühnenburg and the Großer Knollen. At both summits, the huts there invite you to stop for refreshments. Additionally, there are excellent views over the Harz landscape. Overall, the route mainly runs on forest roads. At the end of the tour, a detour to the Steinkirche near Scharzfeld is worthwhile, an impressive medieval cave that is considered the oldest church in the Harz.

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Harz: Magische Gebirgswelt

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Pavements

Asphalt (19%)

Street (9%)

Unknown (2%)

Gravel (47%)

Trail (22%)

Path (1%)

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Directions & Parking facilities

**Public transportation**The train station is about 2 km southwest of the starting point at the Tourist Information, where the two MTB circular routes HE1 and HE2 start.

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Additional information

The Volksbank Arena Harz is also available on YouTube.

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Author

Volksbank Arena Harz

Organization

Harz: Magische Gebirgswelt

License (master data)

Map

**The Harz for mountain bikers**The extremely varied northern German low mountain range landscape is traversed by 74 signposted mountain bike circular routes (total length 2,300 km), classified into three difficulty levels. Official map set "The Harz for Mountain Bikers". Completely revised and expanded new edition. The new map set consists of a tourbook with detachable individual descriptions and detailed maps of the routes. There is also a topographic overview map (1:50,000) printed on weatherproof and durable POLYART material.

ISBN 978-3-935806-28-2

Price €16.80

Publisher map solutions, Karlsruhe 2017

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Nearby
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- Place of interest
    
    
    - Castle
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    - Cave/dripstone cave
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    21.59 km
    
    
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    38.82 km
    
    
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    184.25 km
    
    
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Contact

Herzberg am Harz

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