WatersideWalk Auerhahn Cascade of Ponds
Short facts
- start: Hiking car park Auerhahn
- destination: Camping Bockswiese
- easy
- 4,43 km
- 1 hour 10 minutes
- 48 m
- 635 m
- 541 m
- 80 / 100
- 20 / 100
best season
Hike from Auerhahn to Bockswiese village. Back and forth between the ponds in the Auerhahn Cascade.
The Auerhahn Cascade in the old Bockswiese mining area is a real masterpiece.
The group of ponds is in the middle of the UNESCO World Heritage in the Harz and is the largest pond installation in the whole of the Upper Harz Water Management System.
From the year 1680 onward the ponds supplied the mines in Bockswiese with water for their water wheels. The six ponds are almost triangular and are located one below the other like a staircase.
The walk is 6 km long. Information boards along the path explain why six ponds were built here. And how the Upper Harz water storage ponds were used to supply water to the mines.
General information
Directions
The walk starts from the car park at Auerhahn on the B 241 road. Cross the road and then follow the "Liebesbankweg" down to the Auerhahn Teich pond.
Walk onto the dam to take a look and then come back and take the path that goes to the bottom of the dam. From there take the path to the Neuer Grumbacher Teich. Then continue to the Oberer Grumbacher Teich. Cross the dam and then turn sharply to the right down the hill. From here continue along the Mittlerer Grumbacher Teich to the Oberer Flößteich. Cross the dam and make a circuit of the Unterer Flößteich. Stay on the path back up the valley to the Kreuzeck campsite. The route ends here.
Equipment
Day hiking backpack (approx. 20 litres) with rain cover, sturdy and comfortable shoes, weather-appropriate and hard-wearing clothing, telescopic poles if necessary, sun and rain protection, provisions and drinking water, first aid kit, mobile phone.
Tip
Let your gaze wander over the ponds from the terrace at the Egerland coffee house.
Getting there
Coming from Goslar or from Clausthal-Zellerfeld via the Bundesstraße 241.
Parking
There are free parking spaces for hikers near Auerhahn and Kreuzeck.
Public transit
Above the ponds (in Auerhahn), the HarzBus line 830 goes to the Goslar-Auerhahn stop. At the level of the ponds (in Kreuzeck), the HarzBus line 830 goes to the Hahnenklee-Kreuzeck stop. Below the ponds (in Bockswiese), the HarzBus route 830 to the Hahnenklee-Bockswiese stop.
Additional Information
Oberharzer Bergwerksmuseum
Bornhardstr. 16
38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Tel. 05323 98950
info@oberharzerbergwerksmuseum.de
www.oberharzerbergwerksmuseum.de
Stiftung UNESCO-Welterbe im Harz
Bergtal 19
38640 Goslar
Tel: 05321 750 114
info@welterbeimharz.de
www.welterbeimharz.de
Pavings
- Crushed Rock (23%)
- Street (1%)
- Path (44%)
- Hiking Trail (31%)
- Asphalt Coating (2%)