World Heritage Insight Walk: Hydropower Then and Now (Part 2)
Short facts
- start: At the Sonnenberger Graben
- destination: Rehberger Grabenhaus
- easy
- 0,70 km
- 10 minutes
- 8 m
- 685 m
- 677 m
- 100 / 100
- 10 / 100
best season
This walk will take you along the Rehberger Graben water transport ditch. You will get to know the ditch system for water power in Sankt Andreasberg. You can use an audio guide on your smartphone.
Tip: Activate the audio guide mode in the app. At 6 stations you will learn interesting details about the Upper Harz water management system.
This section of the path along the Rehberger Graben ditch is around 700 m long. Here you can explore part of the Upper Harz Water Management System.
The Upper Harz Water Management System is part of the UNESCO World Heritage in the Harz.
The water transport ditches and storage ponds were needed to supply energy for the mines in the Harz. The water wheels in the mines were needed to hoist the extracted ore to the surface. And to pump out water from the mine galleries.
Our audio guide has six information stations which will tell you about the water transport ditch system.
Around the town of Sankt Andreasberg water power has been used for more than 500 years – earlier for mining and today to produce electricity.
The audio guide is available in German, English and in simple language.
General information
Directions
This World Heritage Insight Walk is only a few hundred metres long. It starts at the old Sonnenberger Graben ditch and follows the Rehberger Graben ditch to the Rehberger Grabenhaus restaurant.
To get to the starting point: From the Dreibrode car park cross the "Clausthaler-Straße" road. Then follow the forest path for 500 m. You will reach some seats. The short tour starts here. Now you can start the audio guide.
Tip
Take a break at the restaurant in the Rehberger Grabenhaus. There you can get something to eat and drink. And there is a wonderful view across the Harz National Park.
Getting there
Via Landesstraße 519 (Clausthaler Straße).
Parking
There are free parking spaces for hikers at Jordanshöhe and Dreibrodestraße.
Public transit
The HarzBus lines 820 and 840 go to the St. Andreasberg Jordanshöhe stop very close by. If you follow the Jordanshöhe road from here and after a few hundred meters turn left at the Gehr, you will reach the themed trail after about 20 minutes.