- 0:10 h
- 698 m
- 8 m
- 10 m
- 677 m
- 685 m
- 8 m
- Start: At the Sonnenberger Graben
- Destination: Rehberger Grabenhaus
Tip: Activate the audio guide mode in the app. At 6 stations, you will learn interesting details about the Upper Harz water management.
This forest path section along the Rehberger Graben is approximately 700 meters long. Here you can explore part of the Upper Harz water management, which has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage in the Harz since 2010.
The water ditches and pond systems were used for energy supply in the Harz mines. The water wheels in the mines were needed to bring the extracted ores up. And to pump water out of the tunnels.
Around Sankt Andreasberg, hydropower has been used for more than 500 years – formerly for mining and today to generate electricity.
Our audio guide tells you more about the water ditch system at 6 stations.
The audio guide is available in German, English, and easy language.
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Directions
The World Heritage Discovery Trail is only a few hundred meters long. It starts at the old Sonnenberger Graben and goes along the Rehberger Graben to the Rehberger Grabenhaus.
This is how you get to the starting point: Go from the Dreibrode parking lot via Clausthaler Straße. Then follow the forest path for 500 meters. Now you are at a seating area. Here the short route already begins. Start the audio guide now.
Directions & Parking facilities
Via the state road 519 (Clausthaler Straße).
There are free hiking parking spaces at Jordanshöhe and at Dreibrodestraße.
Nearby, the HarzBus lines 820 and 840 stop at St. Andreasberg Jordanshöhe. From here, if you follow Jordanshöhe street and turn left at the Gesehr after a few hundred meters, you will reach the thematic trail after about 20 minutes.
Author
René Piehl
Organization
UNESCO-Welterbe im Harz
License (master data)
Author´s Tip / Recommendation of the author
Take a break at the inn in the Rehberger Grabenhaus. There you can eat and drink something. And enjoy a wonderful view of the Harz National Park.
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