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Mandelholz Dam – Harzer Bachtäler Scenic Valley loop from Trautenstein

Mandelholz Dam – Harzer Bachtäler Scenic Valley loop from Trautenstein

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Mandelholz Dam – Harzer Bachtäler Scenic Valley loop from Trautenstein

02:04

46.4km

410m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: May 27, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 27.3 km for 66 m

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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5.53 km

Ice Cream Café & Holiday Apartment Eishexe Tanne

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If you drive this way you just have to take a break. The best ice cream I know

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8.93 km

Former Inner-German Border in the Harz

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Here you cross the former border. It's shocking when you think about the fact that 35 years ago you couldn't just drive here.

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14.5 km

alter Friedhof

Forest

16.0 km

Descent from Elend to Braunlage

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Good track, good surface, but also a lot of traffic.

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22.0 km

Elend station

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It is no longer a train station but just a HSB stop.

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26.2 km

The dam was built from 1952 to 1957 and consists of an earth dam with an integrated concrete control corridor. In order to protect the top of the dam from flooding, an overflow was installed south of it as a flood relief. The last time the dam overflowed was during the 2023 flood.
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27.3 km

Königshütte Waterfall (HWN 40)

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A very beautiful and mostly very calm waterfall. The rest area nearby offers you enough seats. Above the waterfall you look down on Königshütte. There is also a stamp office for the Harzer hiking nobility up here. If you come here by car, you can park in front of the railway bridge on a large gravel area. If you have more time, after a few hundred meters you will find the Rabensteine, from which you have a magnificent view of the Hochharz.

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31.8 km

Königshütte Dam (Königshütte Reservoir)

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The dam was built on the Bode as an 18 m high concrete gravity dam for drinking water supply and flood protection, with a war-related interruption from 1939 to 1943 and 1952 to 1956, but is also used to raise low water levels and generate electricity. The hydroelectric plant has a nominal output of 60 kW and generates 0.18 GWh per year.
The slightly curved wall is 108 m long and has a volume of 13,500 m³. It can be overflowed almost across its entire width. A fishbelly flap is installed in one field, which can be lowered by 1.5 m to relieve flooding.
The reservoir has a volume of 1.2 million m³ and covers an area of 32 hectares. Part of the water is channeled from here through a 1,795 m long tunnel to the Rappbode Dam. The other part flows into the Bode to the Wendefurth dam, where it rejoins the water from the Rappbode dam.
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35.0 km

Harzer Bachtäler Scenic Valley

Highlight (Segment) • Gorge

Nice to drive on a good surface. Traffic volume depends on the time of day.

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46.4 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

29.5 km

9.16 km

5.79 km

1.84 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

44.2 km

1.01 km

772 m

249 m

130 m

Elevation

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Highest point (600 m)

Lowest point (420 m)

Weather

Tuesday 23 June

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Mandelholz Dam – Harzer Bachtäler Scenic Valley loop from Trautenstein

Ice Cream Café & Holiday Apartment Eishexe Tanne

Former Inner-German Border in the Harz

Descent from Elend to Braunlage

Elend station

Mandelholz Dam

Königshütte Waterfall (HWN 40)

Königshütte Dam (Königshütte Reservoir)

Harzer Bachtäler Scenic Valley

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