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title: "West-East route: Seesen - Ilsenburg"
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description: "The route first leads into the heights of the western Harz, where some beautiful viewpoints can be found. Then the route descends into the Upper Harz Water Regale, which has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2010. In this area, the tour passes several ponds and ditches. Since the ponds are located on a plateau, there are hardly any elevation gains in this part of the route – time to pause and catch your breath. From now on, the route goes right through the High Harz, where some steep climbs have to be mastered. Again and again, the rider is rewarded with beautiful views. Finally, the Brocken is also conquered from Schierke via the Brocken road; with 1142m, it is the highest mountain in northern Germany. After that, it’s mostly downhill towards Ilsenburg."
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West-East route: Seesen - Ilsenburg
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- 90.50 km long
- Difficulty: difficult
- Condition: very difficult
- Great panorama
- Mountain bike

Bizarre landscape in the High Harz

Western part of the Harz near Bad Grund

The crossing leads through the Upper Harz Water Regale

From the Brocken, it goes steeply downhill along the former border path to Ilsenburg

The route ends in Ilsenburg

- 10:00 h
- 90.50 km
- 2,118 m
- 2,112 m
- 236 m
- 1,142 m
- 906 m
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- Start: Steinway Park Seesen, Granestraße, 38723 Seesen
- Destination: At the end of the street "Im Ilsetal", 38871 Ilsenburg

The challenging Harz crossing leads from the western edge of the Harz through the High Harz into the northeastern Harz foothills.

The route first leads into the heights of the western Harz, where some beautiful viewpoints can be found. Then the route descends into the Upper Harz Water Regale, which has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2010. In this area, the tour passes several ponds and ditches. Since the ponds are located on a plateau, there are hardly any elevation gains in this part of the route – time to pause and catch your breath. From now on, the route goes right through the High Harz, where some steep climbs have to be mastered. Again and again, the rider is rewarded with beautiful views. Finally, the Brocken is also conquered from Schierke via the Brocken road; with 1142m, it is the highest mountain in northern Germany. After that, it’s mostly downhill towards Ilsenburg.

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Harz: Magische Gebirgswelt

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Pavements

Asphalt (8%)

Gravel (57%)

Street (13%)

Trail (20%)

Path (2%)

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Literature

**The Harz for Mountain Bikers**

Through the extremely varied North German upland landscape, there are 74 signposted mountain bike circular routes (total length 2,300 km), classified into three difficulty levels. Official map set “The Harz for Mountain Bikers.” Completely revised and expanded new edition. The new map set consists of a tour book with detachable individual descriptions and detailed maps of the routes. In addition, a topographic overview map (1:50,000) is included, printed on weatherproof and durable POLYART material.

ISBN 978-3-935806-28-2

Price €16.80

Publisher map solutions, Karlsruhe 2017

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Author´s Tip / Recommendation of the author

Those who want to take it easier can ride the route in 2 stages. Altenau offers itself as an overnight option.

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