Experience forest change live!
As part of the initiative "Der Wald ruft", we want to use this page to inform you about offers, events and activities focusing on the changing forest.
Offers
Experience & understand forest development
Activities
Into the forest, but take your rubbish out!
#NoTrash
Littering is also becoming an increasing problem in Harz National Park. The rubbish left behind by careless people can seriously spoil the enjoyment of nature. Bottles, cans, dog waste bags, cigarette ends, plastic packaging and even nappies end up in the forest. Every year, rangers and volunteers collect more than 1,000 bags of rubbish from along the park’s trails.
Taking part is easy!
Litter pickers and rubbish bags are available at the following National Park facilities:
- National Park Visitor Centre TorfHaus
- National Park Visitor Centre Brockenhaus (Ranger Station)
- National Park House Schierke
- National Park House Ilsetal
- Nature Experience Centre HohneHof
Once equipped, nature lovers can head out on their hikes and help clean up nature along the way. Anyone who hands in their filled rubbish bag at one of the mentioned National Park facilities after their walk will receive one of the popular special stamps of the Harz Hiking Badge with the campaign hashtag #NoTrash as a thank-you.
Important: Of course, the National Park rules also apply to participants in this campaign. So please stay on the paths while collecting rubbish. The “NoTrash” rubbish bags are made of corn starch, so that the campaign doesn’t produce even more plastic waste. There are no rubbish bins within the National Park area itself, to protect animals that might mistake the waste for food. By the way, this is not only the case in the Harz. Around 20 years ago, bins were removed from public forests across the country.
Exhibitions
Forest exhibition “From primeval forest to near-natural managed forest”
at Herzberg Castle
High above the town lies one of the few preserved Renaissance half-timbered castles in Lower Saxony – Herzberg Castle.
In the ancestral wing of this 900-year-old complex, visitors can explore the castle as a setting of Welf rule through various exhibitions. The Lower Saxony State Forests present the changing forest in their forestry exhibition “From primeval forest to near-natural commercial forest”.
More information >>>here.
Exhibition “Buchen musst du suchen”
at Stolberg Castle
The exhibition “You Have to Search for Beeches” was created in 2013 as part of an ELER project at Stolberg Castle as the Natura 2000 information centre of the Harz region. Natura 2000 aims to protect a representative part of our native beech forests. The exhibition is therefore dedicated to the European beech and presents it in a new light.
More information >>>here.
The "HarzWaldHaus"
in Bad Harzburg
The joint institution of the Lower Saxony State Forests and the Harz National Park in Bad Harzburg is fully dedicated to the Harz Forest and its diverse significance: for us humans, for biodiversity and the natural ecosystem, as a sustainable source of renewable timber, and for the large-scale protection of the natural development of the ecosystem. The exhibition at the HarzWaldHaus follows time as its main theme: What happens in the Harz Forest over the course of a day, a year, centuries or even millennia?
More information >>>here.
Adventure exhibition in the South Harz Nature Park
at the Information Centre in Neustadt
The experience exhibition on the topic "Nature and Humanity" at the Haus des Gastes in Neustadt/Harz awaits its visitors in the Southern Harz with not only a permanent exhibition, but also a balance climbing course for children in the outdoor area.
More information >>>here.
Multimedia adventure exhibition
at the Brockenhaus National Park Visitor Centre
The highest located Brockenhaus National Park Visitor Centre right on the summit of the Brocken offers an exhibition area dedicated to the valuable habitats and species in the Harz National Park, especially those around the Brocken. Join the forest as it naturally transforms into wilderness, immerse yourself in the primeval Brocken forest, look deep into the crevices of a boulder field, or discover the rich life within a deadwood trunk.
More information >>>here.
