Brunswick way
The Braunschweiger Weg is a hiking trail in the Lower Saxony part of the Harz Mountains in the Harz National Park . It is part of the Teufelsstieges, which leads to the Brocken and leads from Bad Harzburg to the former Dreiherrenbrücke in Eckertal .
history
The building and construction of the Braunschweiger Weg were commissioned and financed by the Braunschweiger branch of the Harz Club. The solemn inauguration of the path took place at Michaelis on September 29, 1907 in the presence of several personalities from Braunschweig and the surrounding areas. There is a similar path with the Magdeburger Weg not far from the Torfhaus.
course
The hiking trail marked with wooden signposts by the Harz Club and the administration of the Harz National Park branches off from the forest playground at the Hasselteich pond near the Molkenhaus, which was set up a few years ago, from the road used by public buses during the summer season and leading towards the Torfhaus in a south-easterly direction. It initially leads about 300 meters across a large meadow, where several benches invite you to linger. At the edge of the forest, the Braunschweiger Weg leads initially relatively steeply and then flatter in the lower part into the Eckertal. The beginning and end of the Braunschweiger Weg are each marked with a large boulder, in which there are identical inscriptions about the construction of the route in 1907 and its course.
The former Dreiherrenbrücke no longer exists today. She fell victim to the stricter border security measures of the GDR in 1961. Due to the border closure until the end of 1989, the Braunschweiger Weg could no longer be used as a hiking trail to the Brocken . It was not until the year of German reunification in 1990 that the route was reactivated and signposted at the instigation of the Harz Club , the city of Bad Harzburg and the Lower Saxony National Park Administration.
Above the point where the Braunschweiger Weg meets the Ecker, there is the Muxklippe .
geology
At the lower part of the course of the Braunschweiger Weg in the area of the Eckertal there are several outcrops of granitic corridors.