On the wrong track It is hot in Germany. Jogging is not fun anymore at most in the early morning hours. That’s why I hop on my MTB and explore the cycle paths around Wolfenbüttel, the Oderwald and Salzgitter. Destinations are Salzgitter-Salder with its castle museum on the one hand. On the other hand I bike to Heiningen with its
What was meant to be a small closing time trip turned out to be a veritable foto session within and around Wolfenbüttel. I have not visited the town for a while and I am surprised by now how the city duffed itself. The district town captivates its visitors by art and culture. Another eye-catcher are the numerous half-timbered houses and
It is Christmas again? Fir needles falling softly on the ground in the Upper Harz. I already knew that the tree-population at the Western Harz is endangered. But I did not realize how bad it really is. What is going on? Are we going to lose our forests? On the way fortunately we do not only meet death. Puppets, birds
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This sunday we shoot for the moon. The town-twinning cycle path Braunschweig-Magdeburg is scheduled for today. The three of us want to bike all the way to Helmstedt and from there go back by train. Well, sometimes everything turns out differently – and that what’s happened. The tour is branded by closed railway crossings, sweaty descendents and several differences in
Whoever did not toe the line in the medieval age could go wrack in the truest sense of the words. One of the most dangerous places during the princedom Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel must have been the “Lechlumer Holz”, more precisely the chop-chop square. Defendants were not really treated with kid gloves. “Beheadings and kidnapping, that is only business. A question of reputation.”
It does not always have to be the Harz Mountains. A trip into the northern Harz foreland can also be delightful. For examples that applies to the hybrid castle of Liebenburg. For hunters of destination stamps, the hiking trail offers three attractions: the Schröderstollen, the former Bockwindmühle Liebenburg and the castle church on top of the Burgberg. With a total
I told you so before and will do so once more: The Corona restrictions can have positive effects too. In the last few weeks, i.e., it brought me closer to my Lower Saxony home. Have you ever heard of the Stonehenge of Lower Saxony so far or the former Cistercian monastery of Mariental-Dorf? Maybe you like to visit a near-natural
An excursion into idyllic Isenbüttel can be tough. This lesson had to be learned the hard way by 400 Russians 75 years ago. The guys empoisoned themselves in April 1945 by drinking methyl alcohol. This incident is written down in the “Gifhorner diary 1945” by Reiner Silberstein. Maybe the poor soldiers should have visited the nearbye ostrich-farm instead, entertaining themselves
Sporting activity and culture can be well combined within the Harz – the Harz is a forested mountain range in North Germany. The proof for this claim is our hiking trip from Bad Suderode to Gernrode and our visit to the collegiate church St. Cyriakus. The tour of 14 km includes three stamps of the “Harzer Wandernadel”: the Preußenturm (183),