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Lower Ilse Falls – Ilsetal Valley loop from Ilsenburg

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Lower Ilse Falls – Ilsetal Valley loop from Ilsenburg

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Lower Ilse Falls – Ilsetal Valley loop from Ilsenburg

07:51

26.8km

630m

Hiking

Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: July 9, 2026

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Nationalpark Harz

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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4.35 km

Frog Rock

Highlight • Natural Monument

Don't be careful 💋 otherwise, well who knows.
Beautiful rock formation

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7.48 km

Taubenklippe Viewpoint (HWN 4)

Highlight • Viewpoint

From the pigeon cliff you have a great view of the raven cliff. Both stamp points for the Harzer Grenzweg booklet.

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13.3 km

Dam wall of the Eckertalsperre (HWN 001)

Highlight • Monument

A beautiful place steeped in history! A small information board on the well-kept white dam house gives interesting information.
On the Saxony-Anhalt side, various rocky outcrops and stones invite you …

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13.8 km

View of the Eckertalsperre (Ecker Reservoir)

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The Eckerstausee is fed by various tributaries and is used to supply drinking water and energy: there are two turbines below the dam. If you walk over the 60-meter-high dam …

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14.4 km

Viewpoint

21.1 km

Ilse Waterfalls on the Bremer Trail and Heinrich-Heine Trail

Highlight (Segment) • Waterfall

Probably the most beautiful way to the Brocken. The Ilsetal is always worth a trip, even if it doesn't go all the way to the top.

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22.1 km

Lower Ilse Falls

Highlight • Waterfall

The Ilsetal is always worth a trip, regardless of the season.

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23.5 km

Heinrich Heine Trail (Heinrich-Heine-Weg) along the River Ilse

Highlight • Trail

A beautiful valley with admirable nature - we could see dippers, brown trout and, when it rains, numerous fire salamanders. Several seating areas along the river invite you to take a break.

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24.1 km

Ilsetal Valley

Highlight • Gorge

The romantic valley can be found in the Upper Harz Mountains, more precisely on the way from Ilsenburg to the Brocken. The Ilsetal bears the name of the river Ilse, …

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25.1 km

Nagelhüttenteich

Lake

26.8 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

15.1 km

6.99 km

3.06 km

1.42 km

218 m

Surfaces

9.81 km

9.57 km

6.43 km

571 m

423 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Friday 10 July

24°C

12°C

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Comments

April 19, 2024,Harz: Ilsenburg / Ilsetal / Eckertalsperre

In addition to the Oker Valley, the Ilse Valley impressed me greatly last October. It quickly became clear that I would hike the Heinrich Heine Trail toward the Brocken again. Today, I was to return via the Ecker Dam. Curious, I had repeatedly checked a weather app in the days before, and the forecast for that day was actually just …

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June 16, 2024,Obere Ilsefälle – Heinrich Heine Weg Runde von Ilsenburg (Harz)

We started from our accommodation.

The tour starts very idyllically along the river.

You should be in good shape, most of the time you walk over hill and dale through diverse and varied nature.

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August 31, 2024,Durch das Ilsetal zum Scharfenstein

The day before, the climb to Scharfenstein was not worth it because of the fog. Today the weather was good and when we arrived at the ranger station the sun even peeked out from between the clouds. The all-round beautiful tour started in Ilsenburg and led up the Heinrich Heine path. One of the most beautiful paths in the Harz, …

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April 24, 2022,Entspannte Touristenausreißtour

Too many people.. so go somewhere else.. so the Brocken tour was remodeled a bit and I had my peace 🙈🤪🤣

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April 15, 2025,🕊️🪨🕊️ Ilsenburgrunde 🕊️🪨🕊️

A tour through the Harz Mountains from Ilsenburg with the following HWN stamping locations:
- 005 Froschfelsen
- 004 Taubenklippe
- 003 Am Kruzufix
- 002 Scharfenstein
- 008 Stempelsbuche

For quite a while, the path followed the border path. Today, it's perfectly natural to walk from east to west, from north to south, as if it had never been …

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August 13, 2021,7 auf einen Streich bei Ilsenburg: HWN 005 (Froschfelsen), 004(Taubenklippe), 003(Am Kruzifix), 002 (Rangerstation), 008(Stempelsbuche), 006(Ilsefälle), 030(Ilsestein)

Early this morning (around 6 o'clock) I was at the hiking car park in Ilsenburg and had made a few stamps. The fact that there were 7 was actually not planned, but I thought that while I'm there, the 30 (Ilsestein) can also be bagged😌. It was a very varied hike with beautiful views. I almost always had the chunk …

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October 22, 2022,Wanderung

It's a very nice tour. You should definitely plan more time, as there are many nice stops.

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September 15, 2024,Heimatrunde

It was supposed to be a nice tour in our old home.
So off to Ilsenburg.
We then started from the hiking car park in the Ilsetal up the zigzag path to the Bäumlersklippe and further over the Meineberg to the Froschfelsen.
Always with great views of the city.
From there towards Ernstburg (a hunting lodge was built here in …

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Lower Ilse Falls – Ilsetal Valley loop from Ilsenburg

Frog Rock

Taubenklippe Viewpoint (HWN 4)

Dam wall of the Eckertalsperre (HWN 001)

View of the Eckertalsperre (Ecker Reservoir)

Ilse Waterfalls on the Bremer Trail and Heinrich-Heine Trail

Lower Ilse Falls

Heinrich Heine Trail (Heinrich-Heine-Weg) along the River Ilse

Ilsetal Valley

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