Jungbornplatz Parking Area – Jungborn shelter loop from Stapelburg

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Jungbornplatz Parking Area – Jungborn shelter loop from Stapelburg

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Jungbornplatz Parking Area – Jungborn shelter loop from Stapelburg

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2.53km

10m

Hiking

Easy hike. Easily walkable paths. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: October 16, 2026

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Your route passes through protected areas

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Oker- und Eckertal in den Landkreisen Goslar und Wolfenbüttel

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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32 m

Jungbornplatz Parking Area

Highlight • Parking

The ideal starting point for hikes in the Eckertal.
Full quickly on the weekend.

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595 m

Former GDR state border with border post

Highlight • Historical Site

Again and again you come across the black, red and gold concrete border posts along the Harz border road. They are the already weathered witnesses of the long-standing separation within Germany.

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832 m

Ecker

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A very beautiful path

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1.02 km

Jungborn Nature and Health Park

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The Jungborn was a spacious health resort, a medically supervised sanatorium for simple, natural healing methods. Guided by this motto, Adolf Just, the father of the idea and founder of …

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1.04 km

Jungborn shelter

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There are 2 pieces of super nice shelters, the most beautiful I know

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1.26 km

Jungborn Special Stamp Site (Harzer Wandernadel)

Highlight • Rest Area

Here you can find out interesting facts about the history of cure in the Harz Mountains and a special stamp for the Harzer Grenzweg.

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1.37 km

GDR border post at Jungborn

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The Kuranstalt Jungborn was a sanatorium that was founded in 1896 in the valley of the Ecker near Stapelburg by Adolf Just. It is considered Germany's first and largest natural …

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2.31 km

Old railway bridge over the Ecker

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On June 11, 1976, Walter Otte was killed here by Staff Sergeant Erwin G. of the GDR
Border troops murdered.

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2.53 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

2.06 km

270 m

201 m

Surfaces

2.18 km

201 m

139 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Saturday 7 November

8°C

2°C

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Comments

May 5, 2025,Harz Stapelburg HWN Sonderstempel Jungborn

As I wrote, it was a car stamp hunt because I couldn't think of a proper route to some of the stamping stations.
No regular Harz Hiking Badge stamp here, just a stamp for the accompanying booklets, Green Belt/Border, and I think National Park.
The tour is amazing, the path on both sides of the river is fantastic, with a …

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May 20, 2024,Alle guten Dinge sind drei 🙄💦🌦️💦🙄(HWN 9901 Jungborn)

Swimming quality: 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Kneipp quality: 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
This weather 🙄 We were actually already on our way to Torfhaus to observe the increasingly common species of Brocken lemmings in their natural environment and to collect a small wilderness stamp, but then it started pouring so hard from the Marienteichbaude that we turned around straight away and decided to do a little …

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September 13, 2024,Bad Harzburg - HWN 9901

Part II of today took me to the Jungborn special stamp. Since I needed the stamp for the "National Park" booklet, but somehow I didn't feel like making an extra detour on one of my planned tours, I did a bit of stamp hopping.

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