Wernigerode hiking trail for the blind

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Information board with a board in Braille at the beginning of the Wernigerode Blindenwanderweg (2018)

The Wernigerode Blindenwanderweg or (Claus-) Brehme-Weg is an approximately 1.1 kilometer long hiking trail on the outskirts of Wernigerode in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt . It is designed as a circular route and is particularly suitable for blind and visually impaired people.

Geographical location

The hiking trail for the blind is mostly located in the mixed forest near the Amelungskopf in the Harz Mountains, southwest of the city center of Wernigerode. Start and finish is the stairway opposite the Aura-Pension Brockenblick (former home for the blind) at Amelungsweg 8 in Wernigerode. This guesthouse is part of the Saxony-Anhalt Fund for the Blind.

At the same time, the Armeleutebergsweg, from which the Organistenweg branches off, begins on the Wernigeröder Blindenwanderweg and the parking facilities there. Both paths run on a section of the Wernigerode blind hiking trail and lead to Armeleuteberg (with the Kaiserturm) and on to Försterplatz on the old salt road, which as a historical traffic connection leads from Wernigerode through the Salzberg valley and the winds in the direction of Drei Annen Hohne .

The two stamping points 34 - Scharfenstein ( ⊙ ) and 35 - Gasthaus Armeleuteberg ( ⊙ ) of the Harzer hiking pin can also be reached from the Wernigerode hiking trail for the blind .

history

View of the junction of the Organistenweg (right) from the Wernigerode Blindenwanderweg, which on this section is identical to the Armeleutebergsweg (2018)

The Wernigerode Blindenwanderweg was laid out in 1995. It is lined with numerous oak planks at the edge, so that blind people or people with visual impairments can use this relatively wide hiking trail with the help of a blind cane or walking stick, which has been freed of disturbing roots and the like and is largely leveled. Several information boards in Braille and some benches were set up on the Blindenweg.

The path was named after Claus Brehme, the long-time director of the Wernigerode home for the blind. Brehme (* 1925) was in charge of the home from 1951 to 1990. After that, Brehme was honorary chairman of the Wernigerode district organization of the Saxony-Anhalt Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired.

Due to weather and vandalism damage, repair work on the path was necessary in 2001 and 2009.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The first home for the blind in Wernigerode was built in 1915 as a pension by the Reichsdeutscher Blindenverband.

Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 34 "  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 48.7"  E