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Nadelöhr Rock Formation

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Nadelöhr Rock Formation

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Nadelöhr Rock Formation

Recommended by 83 hikers out of 88

This Highlight is in a protected area

Please check local regulations for: Naturpark Südharz

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Location: Harztor, Landkreis Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany

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1. Burgruine Hohnstein (HWN 98) – Gänseschnabel loop from Ilfeld Neanderklinik

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2. Gänseschnabel – Trail to Wetterfahne loop from Ilfeld Neanderklinik

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3. Harzquerbahn Photo Spot – Fischbach Pond loop from Netzkater

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Christoph 🦊

October 9, 2022

A beautiful and interesting rock formation with a great story, children can easily fit through it and there are great photo opportunities...I didn't try it myself ^^

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Ca.Stenger

August 14, 2023

The legend of the eye of the needle

In the old days, when merchants and carters still used horse-drawn carts to sell their goods in remote Harz villages, an old trade route ran through Ilfeld. From here the Goetheweg branches off, on which the privy councilor von Goethe took his first journey to the Harz Mountains in 1777 on horseback
rode into the Harz mountains in a coat bag.

This said Goetheweg leads past a boulder that has a narrow cleft. The legend tells of this boulder that a giant once shook it out of its shoe because the block in it pressed so hard.

All carters, dealers and forest workers who wanted to get wood from the forest had to pass this stone. If only one carter was hired, it was customary for him to crawl through this narrow crevice on his first trip to the jeers and laughter of his comrades. The other servants stood behind him and helped with their whips.

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Ca.Stenger

August 14, 2023

If the newcomer could pay his comrades a taler, he didn't have to squeeze through. This is what this traditional poem tells about

The servant has to go through the eye of the needle

At Ilefeld, there lies a stone
Has an ear through and through
There is a belly that is not delicate
And yet he is very amusing.
The bailiff wants, he shouldn't be,
Alone, what's the use of threatening and screaming?
No sooner does a new servant drive into the wood,
The others quickly grab him.
He must, no matter how proud he is,
Strive through this ear.
He crawls, they hit and the servant screams,
That's how it is for the others.
But if he buys his way out with money,
So he doesn't need to go in.
But if he doesn't, the hero must
three times as through the stone.
Then he's a made man
The other can hit again.

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Location: Harztor, Landkreis Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany

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Nadelöhr Rock Formation

1. Burgruine Hohnstein (HWN 98) – Gänseschnabel loop from Ilfeld Neanderklinik

2. Gänseschnabel – Trail to Wetterfahne loop from Ilfeld Neanderklinik

3. Harzquerbahn Photo Spot – Fischbach Pond loop from Netzkater

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