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title: "Border hike in the Harz - Bad Harzburg"
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description: "From the spa park, we climb up via the Ettersklippe. Once at the top, we continue hiking to the Molkenhaus and take a break here in a friendly atmosphere. We continue along the Braunschweiger Weg to the Eckertal dam – a marvel of engineering. We take the path on the western side of the dam and follow the Pionierweg until we reach the crossing over the Ecker. On the eastern side, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, we hike back to the dam and from there return along the same route to the Molkenhaus. From here, we then follow the Kaiserweg to the Großer Burgberg and hike back down into the valley to the spa park, our starting point."
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Border hike in the Harz - Bad Harzburg
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- 23.82 km long
- Round trip
- Difficulty: medium
- Condition: medium
- Great panorama
- Walking / hiking

- 6:40 h
- 23.82 km
- 533 m
- 533 m
- 289 m
- 652 m
- 363 m
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- Start: "House of Nature", Bad Harzburg
- Destination: "House of Nature", Bad Harzburg

The Eckertal - hiking "over stock and stone" along the former inner-German border.

From the spa park, we climb up via the Ettersklippe. Once at the top, we continue hiking to the Molkenhaus and take a break here in a friendly atmosphere. We continue along the Braunschweiger Weg to the Eckertal dam – a marvel of engineering. We take the path on the western side of the dam and follow the Pionierweg until we reach the crossing over the Ecker. On the eastern side, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, we hike back to the dam and from there return along the same route to the Molkenhaus. From here, we then follow the Kaiserweg to the Großer Burgberg and hike back down into the valley to the spa park, our starting point.

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Directions & Parking facilities

**Getting there**

Access via the A395, then continue on the B4 to Bad Harzburg

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**Parking**

Free public parking: large parking lot on the B4 and at Berliner Platz; paid public parking at the Burgberg cable car and opposite the Kurhaus Bad Harzburg.

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Contact

Nordhäuser Straße

38667 Bad Harzburg

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