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寒くて、今は良い道です。

ブロイヘルローデ–ヘルツベルク鉄道線は、アイヒスフェルト東部とオーム山地を結ぶ、全長41kmの単線非電化のローカル線でした。これにより、ブロイヘルローデのハレ–ハノーファー・ミュンデン鉄道線とヘルツベルク・アム・ハルツの南ハルツ線を結んでいました。主に、かつてのいくつかのカリ鉱山（最後はビショッフェローデ）から、リュムスプラインゲの褐炭火力発電所への貨物輸送に利用されていました。 ニーダーザクセン州側では、路線はほぼ完全にサイクリングロードに転用されました。ただし、リュムスプラインゲでは、2つの橋がそれ以前に取り壊されたため、一部が欠けており、ヒルケローデ停留所とツヴィンゲ駅の間の区間も、並行する農道があるため、転用されませんでした。 出典: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnstrecke_Bleicherode%E2%80%93Herzberg

橋のほとんどはサイクリングロードとして利用可能であり、サイクリストやハイカーは勾配の少ない緑豊かな道を利用できます。ルムスプリンゲでのみ、公式ルートは町を通っています。このルートで最も美しい未整備の viaduct は脇に置かれています。

Smoothly paved by autumn 2025 – after decades of potholed and rough surfaces, it's finally a pleasure to cycle on this quiet side road. The southern section is called Eiskeller (Ice Cellar) because it's always a bit colder there – and a bit more icy in winter.

Not much of the castle has been preserved, but the tower stump is well lit in the evenings and can be seen from far above the district.

Highly recommended...delicious cake, just right for the climb to the dam and further to Clausthal-Zellerfeld.

The old castle on the mountain spur between the Sösetal and Lerbachtal secured the ascent into the Harz Mountains. By 1100 AD, Osterode was already a "flourishing place". We can see this from the chronicle of the St. Peter's Monastery in Erfurt, which mentions the destruction of the "villa opulentissima" in the dispute between Henry the Lion and Margrave Albert the Bear in 1152. The castle was already standing at this time, and the remains of it remain one of the town's landmarks. It protected the first market settlement, which existed safely from the unpredictable Söse River, on the hill of today's Rollberg. Until 1486, the castle was the widow's residence of Duchess ELISABETH of Brunswick-Grubenhagen. In 1512, the castle was no longer inhabited; it was probably abandoned due to the threat of collapse as a result of the building ground giving way. With its 3.5-meter-thick walls, it had five floors. The preserved half-cylinder of the Romanesque residential tower, with a lower diameter of approx. 15 m and a remaining height of approx. 35 m, is one of the largest keep castles in Central Europe. Only a small part of the keep of the Old Castle has been preserved, and only the foundation walls of the other castle buildings. After extensive renovation, the tower ruins now tower over the beautiful town of Osterode am Harz. https://www.goettingerland.de/de/poi/historische-staette/alte-burg/50966953/

Unfortunately, this beautiful path towards Breitenworbis is currently closed (July 25, 2024). The diversion is signposted, but has a barrier (!) on the descent and then actually continues on the bypass road that the cycle path should actually avoid. This is only for the fearless!🤯