An easy forest route, which can also be cycled.
On the short circular route, you can relax your soul at insignificant inclines and listen to the silence of nature. Many resting benches invite you to linger.
Circular route "Grüntal" (HWN 49)
Short facts
- start: Haus des Gastes/Spa Park
- destination: Haus des Gastes/Spa Park
- medium
- 7,07 km
- 1 hour 48 minutes
- 547 m
- 508 m
- Loop tour
best season
Tour waypoints
Parking spot Straße der Einheit - Benneckenstein
Wilhelm-Schmidt-Park with gondola pond
St. Laurentius Kirche Benneckenstein
Tour-Dashboard
Pavings
- Crushed Rock (73%)
- Asphalt Coating (6%)
- Hiking Trail (21%)
Weather
General information
From the Haus des Gastes, we head towards the school, passing the Wilhelm-Schmidt monument on the right, and continue above the music pavilion to the left past the playground and the garage complex until we turn left onto Zollhäuser Straße and then immediately pass the industrial area on the right.
After crossing the railway tracks, the hike leads us left along the industrial area over the Lehmkuhlen to the Breiten Linie.
Here you go right at the shelter to Grüntaler Straße and then immediately right again to the former Grüntal forest house.
At the forest house, take a sharp right back until we cross the Schieferbach stream, continue to L 97, then right onto the path along the Ruxbach (boundary with old border stones HB/KP) back to the Lehmkuhlen.
We hike left towards the industrial areas back to our start and finish point at Haus des Gastes.
No safety instructions are known to us.
Sturdy footwear and rain gear are recommended. Don’t forget your Harzer Wandernadel stamp booklet and camera.
On this circular route, you have the opportunity to collect a sought-after stamp of the Harzer Wandernadel.
No. 49 - Forest house "Grüntal".
You can reach Benneckenstein by car
- from Wernigerode via the B244, turn-off Elbingerode B27 continuing to turn-off Königshütte B242 and in Tanne onto L98
- from Braunlage via the B242, turn-off Tanne onto L98
- from Nordhausen via the B4 to the L98 turn-off Benneckenstein
Parking is available at Haus des Gastes/Wilhelm-Schmidt-Park.
You can reach the Harz town of Benneckenstein by bus of the Harzer Verkehrsbetriebe
from the direction of Wernigerode
from the direction of Blankenburg
from the direction of Braunlage
from the direction of Nordhausen
or
by the Harzer Schmalspurbahn narrow-gauge railway from Wernigerode or Nordhausen.
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TIP:
With the Harz Holiday Ticket you have free mobility throughout the entire Harz district.
HATIX - the free use of public bus lines of the Harzer Verkehrsbetriebe, the Q-Bus local transport company, the Halberstadt transport company, as well as the Verkehrsgesellschaft Südharz in the Harz district.
More information at: www.hatix.info
Unfortunately, no literature is known.
Hiking map - City Oberharz am Brocken 1:25000 ; ISBN 978-3-86973-065-3
Tourist Information Benneckenstein/Trautenstein
Bahnhofstraße 21b
38877 City Oberharz am Brocken/OT Benneckenstein
benneckenstein@oberharzinfo.de
Tel.: 039457/2612