Kuhborn
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| Geographical location | Wernigerode , Harz district , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | |
| Drain | Ditch to the Holtemme | |
| Location close to the shore | Hasserode | |
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 49 '36 " N , 10 ° 44' 35" E | |
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The Kuhborn is a stagnant body of water southwest of the Heudeberberg near the Hasserode district of Wernigerode in the Harz Mountains . It belonged to the pond system of the Augustinian hermit monastery in Himmelpforten and was once used as a cattle trough. Today the Kuhborn u. a. used as a wetland habitat. It drains through a ditch to the Holtemme .
Immediately past the Kuhborn, a marked hiking trail leads from the Himmelpforte over the Kuhbornwiese to the Kastanienplatz on the Schwengskopf and on to the Plessenburg . Other paths lead over the Eichberg or the Piepergrund down to Hasserode.