Goetheweg (Harz)
The Goetheweg is a hiking trail in the Harz Mountains , named after the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
course
- Route length: approx. 8.5 km (one route)
- Lowest point: 811 m (peat house)
- Highest point: 1,141.2 m (Brocken)
The Goetheweg is one of the most frequented hiking trails in the Harz National Park. Every year around 200,000 people come to the Brocken on it. It roughly describes the likely path of Goethe's ascent from Torfhaus to Brocken on December 10, 1777 under the leadership of Torfhaus forester Johann Christoph Degen. However, Goethe's exact route is unknown today.
“Early after the peat house in deep snow. Started at 1 quarter past 10, from there to the Brocken. Snow a cubit deep, but it bore. 1 quarter past one up. Cheerful, glorious moment, the whole world in clouds and fog and above everything cheerful. What is the person that you think of him. Back at four. At the forester on the peat house in Herberge. "
Starting from Torfhaus, the Goetheweg leads along the Abbegrabens past the Großer Torfhausmoor to the southeast until you reach the Kaiserweg below the Quitschenberg and Luisen cliffs. After a couple of hundred meters, the Goetheweg branches off to the east. In a north-easterly arc over the Quitschenberg, it circles the Brockenfeldmoor, the headwaters of the Abbe and Kalte Bode rivers . Shortly after the Eckersprung , the state border with Saxony-Anhalt is crossed. The path meets the Brocken Railway at Goetheweg station . Until the zonal border area was closed by the GDR in 1961, the Goetheweg ran straight to the northeast over the Königsberg, past the Hirschhorn cliffs to the summit of the Brocken. Today the route leads along the New Goetheweg, which opened in 1991, in an arc along the railway line to Brockenstrasse . Here the natural tree line is crossed and shortly afterwards the Brocken plateau is reached on the road.
From July 2008 to October 2009, the Neue Goetheweg , which had previously been partially designed as a boardwalk , was expanded into a three-meter-wide hiking trail. This measure, which was critically discussed in advance, enables the route to be prepared mechanically in snow, as was already possible on the remaining sections of the Goetheweg. This should enable a safe inspection even in winter.
The Goetheweg is part of the Harz Hexenstieges .
See also
Web links
- Directions "Goetheweg" in the article Brocken on Wikivoyage
- Description of the Goetheweg of the Harz National Park Administration
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harz National Park: Route plan Harz National Park (Lower Saxony) 2002 - Hikers count ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ a b Harz National Park: Remodeled Goetheweg officially opened ( memento of the original from July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Goethe's winter ascent of the Brocken in 1777 - which route did he take? by Friedhart Knolle , accessed August 7, 2016
- ↑ Goslarsche Zeitung: Safe hike to the Brocken - Goetheweg widened to be safe for winter ( Memento from March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (from October 22, 2009)
- ↑ Harz National Park: Construction work on the Goetheweg in the Harz National Park - background information ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
