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Harz Mountains

Sorge Border Museum – Border Museum Sorge loop from Sorge

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Germany
Saxony-Anhalt
Harz Mountains

Sorge Border Museum – Border Museum Sorge loop from Sorge

Easy

4.6

(180)

512

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Sorge Border Museum – Border Museum Sorge loop from Sorge

01:15

4.53km

80m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

Last updated: August 10, 2026

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Harzer Bachtäler

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128 m

Crossings of the Warm Bode River

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beautiful crossing of the "Warm Bode"

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2

1.66 km

Charcoal Burner's Hut Sorge

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Chic charcoal burner's hut on the way to the "Ring of Remembrance"

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3

1.88 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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2.09 km

Sorge Border Museum

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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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2.12 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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2.13 km

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

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2.13 km

Border Museum Sorge

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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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3.46 km

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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4.53 km

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Way Types & Surfaces

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2.45 km

2.05 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

2.28 km

1.42 km

512 m

300 m

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Highest point (550 m)

Lowest point (490 m)

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Wednesday 7 October

14°C

5°C

40 %

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Comments

June 9, 2023,Harz / Grenzwege: Grenzlandschaft Sorge
And on the road again 🙈 this time in the Harz Mountains 😊... and since it was already late, there was a small round in the border area Sorge.
Child 3 found the way there stupid, she found the border fences scary, the convoy way boring and the sun too warm....
Normally you either walk back the same way or …

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Spontaneously took a short walk along the border path where you can see the history of the inner-German border, and the Harz Mountains are slowly recovering🪾 it's turning green again 🎄🌳🌱nice to see

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Today we had a nice little winter hike, albeit on historical ground.
Unfortunately Komoot went on strike today. Some of the pictures from the app didn't turn out. For whatever reason, there were none or they were only parts of a picture or even something like test strips.

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Schwimmqualität: 👍🏻👍🏻
Kneippqualität: 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻


Wenn Frauchen ein bisschen schwächelt macht man am Besten ne Doppeltour und nimmt zur Sicherheit noch die Männchen mit und darum ging es heute in die Grenzlandschaft Sorge 🙂
Die erste Runde ging direkt ins beschauliche Sorge. Ich finde ja, dass das kein schöner Name fürs Körbchen ist, aber Frauchen sagt, dass das nicht geklärt ist, …
This easy but very beautiful hike leads through the open-air border museum. This is where the story of the separation of Germany comes to life. I found it very exciting to experience the dimensions and, thanks to the remains of border fences, B-tower and border security systems, to experience the border history up close. After so much vivid history lessons, …

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Yesterday I was still doing gymnastics in shorts and a shirt, today I'm wearing thick pants, a fleece sweater and a jacket.😳
Fresh 7 degrees, overcast skies and a good wind. Comfortable is something else entirely. But it was interesting nonetheless.
instagram.com/wanderluft1972

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A piece of German history is located in a forest near Sorge.
The open-air museum is a station on the Harzer Grenzweg and is located on the site of the former protective strip of the former inner-German border. From the car park at Ebersbach on the western outskirts of Sorge to the "Ring of Remembrance" there is a distance of …

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Immediately on the outskirts of Sorge you will find the border museum "Ring of Remembrance", where you will find various relics of the former German-German border. On the path you will find, for example, the remains of old border fences, an observation tower or an earth bunker. At the same time, some interesting information about the former border is told …

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