The "highlight" of the route: This stage leads through the Harz National Park to the 1141 m high Brocken, the highest mountain of the Harz and all of northern Germany.
The 1142 meter high Brocken summit appears within reach from the starting point Torfhaus. Hexen-Stieg and Goetheweg are one and the same; along it we hike towards the most German of all mountains. At the signposts of the national park, the wooden green witch shows us the right path.
Here, along this slab path, once lay the border that divided Germany for over 40 years. That is history. Today we pass through the most beautiful raised bogs of the Harz National Park up to the highest summit of northern Germany, with an incomparable view. Schlungsklippen, Ahrensklint, Trudenstein: above Schierke, the path leads past rugged rocks and through dense forests to our stage goal, directly at the station of the Harz narrow-gauge railway.