Border Museum Sorge – Sorge Border Museum loop from Sorge

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Border Museum Sorge – Sorge Border Museum loop from Sorge

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Border Museum Sorge – Sorge Border Museum loop from Sorge

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5.55km

90m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 6, 2026

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Waypoints

Start point

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1.41 km

Sorge Border Museum

Highlight • Historical Site

Originally preserved border system with dog run system of the former inner-German border. In addition, detailed information boards. Definitely worth seeing!

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1.43 km

Border Gate at the Harz Open-Air Museum

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This relic is the border signal fence (here the modified version with a lane gate, built at great expense in the early 1980s). Due to topographical reasons, it stood at …

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1.45 km

Border Museum Sorge

Highlight (Segment) • Historical Site

Here is an old B tower, which of course is not accessible. In conjunction with a small piece of border fence and the bare-cut area in front of the fence …

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2.78 km

Ring of Remembrance - Harz Hiking Needle Stamp 46 (Sorge Border Museum)

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On the outskirts of Sorge, the association "Grenzmuseum Sorge e.V." has received a border museum with a border landscape. The aim of the association is to keep the memory of …

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3.79 km

View of Wurmberg and Brocken

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Beautiful view of the Wurmberg and the Brocken surrounded by a piece of German history.

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4.11 km

Border gate and original border signal fence Sorge

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A beautiful hike with lots of information about the former FRG/GDR border.

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4.12 km

Border Monument Forefence near Sorge

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Part of the very well made border memorial.

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4.36 km

Sorge Border Museum

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Every time I am moved anew when I walk past remnants of the wall that divided Germany until 1989 or border towers. The open-air museum on the “Ring of Remembrance” …

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5.55 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

3.79 km

1.57 km

148 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

2.53 km

1.71 km

1.26 km

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (550 m)

Lowest point (480 m)

Weather

Thursday 17 September

16°C

9°C

28 %

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Max wind speed: 17.0 km/h

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Comments

October 30, 2022,Harz: Wanderung Grenzlandschaft Sorge (HWN 46)

From Sorge, you head straight into the former inner-German border region. The preserved border fortifications give a vague impression of what it was like back then. The route leads along a former patrol path past a border gate with barbed wire and a watchtower.

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February 27, 2022,Sorge Ring der Errinnerung

A little digestive walk. Here, too, completely new prospects from bark beetles and Co.

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October 3, 2024,Grenzmuseum am Ring der Erinnerung (HWN 46)

In keeping with October 3rd, a short hike along the former border line...

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November 28, 2025,Grenzland 🧱 und Dampflok 🚂: Unterwegs auf Stempelmission 📮 bei Sorge

Surprised by how much snow still lay and how foggy it was today, we set off from the Ebersbachstraße parking lot near Sorge, following the icy and desolate paved path, almost perfectly straight, along the former inner-German border to the Ring of Remembrance and the HWN stamp box there. Right at the start of our hike, we were lucky, as …

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January 28, 2023,Grenzmuseum - Ring der Erinnerung

After Hohegeiß quickly got the stamp of the HWN 46 G.

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October 21, 2023,24. Stempeljagd 👞🚗⛅️ - Teil 2 - HWN 046 🇩🇪

Good morning! 😎
Already in the area 😅, we decided to drive to Sorge and take a look at the "Border Museum - on the Ring of Memories" HWN 046 + take the ♟️ with us.

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