NATURA Tip 14 - Harly, Ecker and Okertal near Vienenburg - Route 2

Our nearly 7 km long circular route begins at the monastery hotel and initially leads left past the former forester's house into the Harly mountains. A fork in the path is quickly reached. There we discover a memorial stone. It commemorates Fritz Laube, born in Berlin in 1914. The important landscape and animal painter lived and worked in Vienenburg from 1950. Especially his animal paintings are still sought after in the art market today. Dioramas created by him can be found in major museums in Lower Saxony and also in the hunting lodge Springe. We leave the rest area on the left because the trail continues up the Bear Valley to the Herb-August Cave. The old August is said to have lived in the quarry cave. He thanked those who worked in the monastery forest for bread and soup by passing on his knowledge of healing herbs. At the next fork, we head towards the middle path. Soon a shelter is reached there. Again it is "keep left!", down the driveway to the southern forest edge of the Harly, where we now go right towards the west. A bridge allows us to cross the Weddelbach. Contrary to the flow direction, we hike to the state road L 510, which connects Weddingen with Vienenburg. We follow it for about 100 m, then enter the forest via a path protected from vehicle traffic by a barrier leading south. The footpath leads up to the Harz Monastery Hiking Trail, which runs on a former railway line. Over the railway that once lay there, the salt mine operated by Preussag in the Harly until the flood in 1930 was connected with its shafts I and II and the train stations Grauhof and Vienenburg. Still before shaft II, the trains passed the Wöltingerode Monastery, the starting point and destination of our hike.

Parking options at Wöltingerode Monastery.

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