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The smallest wooden church in Germany
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If you take the meaning of "Kirchenschiff" (church ship) literally, you can believe that the cosy wooden churches of the Upper Harz are able to float...

 The smallest wooden church in Germany, built in neo-Gothic style in 1897, is located in Elend as a counterpart to the largest wooden church in Germany in Clausthal-Zellerfeld.

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    - Romanesque Road
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    11.04 km
    
    
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    6.87 km
    
    
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    24.62 km
    
    
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Contact

**Information: Tourist-Information Elend**

Hauptstraße 19

38875 Oberharz am Brocken OT Elend