Stapelburg Castle Ruins – Stapelburg Church loop from Stapelburg

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Harz Mountains

Nordharz

Stapelburg Castle Ruins – Stapelburg Church loop from Stapelburg

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Stapelburg Castle Ruins – Stapelburg Church loop from Stapelburg

01:53

7.21km

60m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 17, 2026

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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2.76 km

Jungborn Special Stamp Site (Harzer Wandernadel)

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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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2.97 km

Jungborn shelter

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

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2.99 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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3.42 km

Former GDR state border with border post

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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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3.49 km

Ecker

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A very beautiful sight

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6.05 km

View of Stapelburg

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Beautiful view over the park to Stapelburg, very well maintained grounds

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6.16 km

Stapelburg Castle Ruins

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During the time of divided Germany, the beautiful castle ruin slowly rotted away - because it stood in the middle of the "protective strip" and thus a tourist use was …

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6.46 km

Stapelburg Church

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The neo-Gothic building was erected in 1891 as a replacement for a predecessor building that had fallen into disrepair and was made of yellow bricks below the castle ruins.

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7.21 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

2.87 km

2.17 km

1.69 km

479 m

Surfaces

3.77 km

2.61 km

406 m

381 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Today

Saturday 10 October

13°C

8°C

67 %

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Max wind speed: 24.0 km/h

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Comments

November 25, 2023,Wanderung Stapelburg und Jungborn

A short hike at the end of my short vacation in Ilsenburg.
2 stamp points were on the plan. To do this I had to go to the former border town of Stapelburg. But first I headed for the Jungborn stamp office. The way there took me past the Ecker. Unfortunately, due to the heavy rain of the last …

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April 27, 2022,Halt! Hier Grenze!!! 🔜⚠️⛔️🚧⛔️⚠️🔚 (HWN 9901 Jungborn 990827 Stapelburg 👻 Platz des 11.11.89)

Swimming quality: 👍🏻👍🏻
Kneipp quality: 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Today there was a wonderful 2-country tour 😍 Mum told me that when she was a puppy you couldn't just walk there because there were really bad two-legged friends who would even shoot. I'm really glad that they've been chased away in the meantime, because the Schimmerwald and the corners around Stapelburg are just …

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