Three countries stone (Großer Ehrenberg)

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Three countries stone in winter
Dennert fir, three-country stone
Gräflich-Wernigeröder forest area
Duchy of Brunswick
Kingdom of Prussia
Information board three countries stone

The three-country stone is a border stone at the triangle of the German states Lower Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia near the Großer Ehrenberg in the Harz low mountain range .

Geographical location

The three-state stone is located in the southern Harz region, both at the three-country corner of the states mentioned above and at the border point between the districts of Goslar (Lower Saxony), Harz (Saxony-Anhalt) and Nordhausen (Thuringia). In addition, the Harz Nature Park (Lower Saxony) , the Harz Nature Park / Saxony-Anhalt and the South Harz Nature Park meet there. The boundary stone is located about 3.3 km southeast of Hohegeiß (Lower Saxony), about 3.3 km south-southwest of Benneckenstein (Saxony-Anhalt), about 1.8 km northwest of Rothesütte (Thuringia) and about 1.25 km (as the crow flies) ) northeast below the summit of the Großer Ehrenberg ( 635.5  m above sea  level ; Thuringia) at an altitude of about 575  m . The federal highway 4 , on which the hikers' car park Jägerfleck is located, runs almost 100 m southwest of the stone .

History and description

The three-country stone was probably set as early as 1749. It bears the inscriptions: HB ( Duchy of Braunschweig ), AB ( Office Benneckenstein ), which was later changed to KP ( Kingdom of Prussia ), and GW ( Gräflich-Wernigeröder forest area ).

During the Cold War (1945–1990) the border stone formed a border point along the inner-German border , from 1945 between the British occupation zone (BBZ) in the west and the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ) in the east and from 1949 between the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in West and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the east. The Iron Curtain and the Kolonnenweg led past , which once served as a border control route and is now used as a hiking trail.

Since October 3, 1990, the day of German unity , the boundary stone has marked the border between Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. He is now in the Green Belt Germany .

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Landscape at the Three Country Stone

The three-country stone was until 2016 as no. 47 in the system of stamping points of Harzer Wandernadel included. There is a refuge about 50 m northeast of the boundary stone (approx.  572.5  m ). The Harzer Grenzweg , a 75 km long hiking trail along the former inner-German border , leads past .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Saxony-Anhalt viewer of the State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation ( notes )
  2. Harzer Wanderadel: former stamp point 47 - 3-Länder-Stein ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), from harzer-wandernadel.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 27.6 ″  N , 10 ° 42 ′ 6 ″  E