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Location: Volkerode, Landkreis Eichsfeld, Thuringia, Germany

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1. Salzfrau viewpoint – Historic Lime Kiln on the Gobert loop from Hitzelrode

19.4km

05:39

510m

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2. Historic Lime Kiln on the Gobert – Green Belt loop from Grebendorf

21.0km

06:03

520m

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3. Green Belt – Historic Lime Kiln on the Gobert loop from Neuerode

10.7km

02:59

200m

210m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Gabi

May 21, 2022

The “Green Belt” nature conservation project was born shortly after the border opened. Nature and environmentalists met to secure the former border strip as the “ecological backbone of Central Europe”. The death strip was transformed into a “life line”; it became a paradise for nature.

The Heinz Sielmann Foundation initiated the Eichsfeld-Werratal Green Belt project. Between the Harz and the Thuringian Forest, in the three federal states of Thuringia, Lower Saxony and Hesse, 130 km of the Green Belt are maintained as a biotope network.

The entire Green Belt now runs over 12,500 km through Europe.

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Gabi

May 22, 2022

A 1,393 km long “Green Belt” runs through the middle of Germany from the Baltic Sea to the Saxon-Bavarian Vogtland. It is a valuable biotope with a width between 50 and 200 m. It was created from the unused areas of the former inner-German border in the protection of the border fortifications.

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Daniela - danik145

November 14, 2023

The Green Belt Germany is the first all-German nature conservation project: It was launched on the initiative of the BUND Nature Conservation in Bavaria e. V. was founded shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolution on December 9, 1989.

It refers to the strip of terrain between the former inner German border and the border fortifications on the eastern side. The 1,393 km long and 50-200 m wide strip of land is intended to remain a green belt or become one again. The strip of terrain extends from Travemünde to the border triangle near Hof. The Green Belt is the largest biotope network in Germany. More than 1,200 animal and plant species that are threatened in Germany are found on its lands with over 150 nature reserves.

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Downhill 20 m

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Location: Volkerode, Landkreis Eichsfeld, Thuringia, Germany

Green Belt

1. Salzfrau viewpoint – Historic Lime Kiln on the Gobert loop from Hitzelrode

2. Historic Lime Kiln on the Gobert – Green Belt loop from Grebendorf

3. Green Belt – Historic Lime Kiln on the Gobert loop from Neuerode

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