World Heritage Insight Walk: Ideas and Innovations
Short facts
- start: Zellerfeld Münze, corner of Bornhardtstrasse
- destination: Upper Harz Mining Museum
- easy
- 3,65 km
- 57 minutes
- 43 m
- 564 m
- 535 m
- 60 / 100
- 20 / 100
best season
World Heritage Insight Walk in Zellerfeld: At 12 information stations you can find out about the great scientist Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and his technical ideas.
This circular walk is 3.6 km long and takes you through Zellerfeld and into the fantastic Upper Harz Water Management System. Today this is part of the UNESCO World Heritage in the Harz.
Water from the storage ponds flowed through ditches to the water wheels at the mines. Water power was needed to hoist the extracted ore to the surface.
Rainwater also seeped into the mines constantly. The water wheels were also used to drive the pumps that pumped the water out of the mines.
This World Heritage Insight Walk has various information stations. At each station an information board tells you about the scientist Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716) and his work. He worked in the Upper Harz from 1680 to 1686 and from 1693 to 1696. During this time he performed many experiments. He wanted to save the energy from water power or to gain energy without using water.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a scientific genius. The letters he wrote are also part of the UNESCO World Heritage. They demonstrate how people can be great inventors.
Note: The round tour will take approximately 1.5 hours if you read all the content.
General information
Directions
From the Zellerfeld Mint the walk takes you past the Saint Salvatoris Church and down to the "Zellweg" road. Beyond this you come to the Eschenbacher Flutgraben ditch. Walk along the Flutgraben until you come to a turning circle. There you turn right into the road "An den Abtshöfen" and then turn right again towards a small playground.
Turn right at the playground and walk back to the ditch. Follow the ditch to the Unterer Eschenbacher Teich pond. If you want to, you can make a short detour to the Oberer Eschenbacher Teich pond. Come back on the same path.
Now the walk crosses the dam of the pond. After the dam the route turns sharp right onto the old railway line. Walk down the railway route until you reach the road "An den Eschenbacher Teichen". There you should turn left towards "Telemannstraße" and then turn right into the road "Brauhausberg". Say on this road and cross the "Zellweg". Cut across the park at the "Trebraterrassen" behind the church to reach the old pharmacy on the Goslarsche Straße (B 241).
The themed walk ends at the Upper Harz Mining Museum.
Safety Guidelines
You move in a historical industrial landscape. Please stay on the paths.
Tip
Visit the Upper Harz Mining Museum. It is the oldest technical open-air museum in Germany. There you can see many interesting things from the mining period and learn a lot about it.
Getting there
Via the Bundesstraße 241 (Goslarsche Straße).
Public transit
At the Upper Harz Mining Museum, HarzBus routes 830, 841 and 861 go to the Clausthal-Zellerfeld Thomas-Merten-Platz stop.
Additional Information
Oberharzer Bergwerksmuseum
Bornhardtstraße 16
38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Tel: 05323-98950
info@oberharzerbergwerksmuseum.de
http://www.oberharzerbergwerksmuseum.de
Stiftung Welterbe im Harz
Bergtal 19
38640 Goslar
Tel: 05321 750 114
info@welterbeimharz.de
www.welterbeimharz.de
Pavings
- Asphalt Coating (36%)
- Path (2%)
- Hiking Trail (62%)