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Sorge Border Museum – Border Museum Sorge loop from Sorge

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Sorge Border Museum – Border Museum Sorge loop from Sorge

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Sorge Border Museum – Border Museum Sorge loop from Sorge

04:27

15.6km

340m

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Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 29, 2026

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659 m

Sorge Border Museum

Highlight • Historical Site

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” is the most impressive for me after many kilometers on the border paths in the Harz Mountains. Even if the border tower is a bit reminiscent of a Trabant make (it looks a bit small and somehow not particularly solid), it gives me goose bumps. On the border path we pass the remains of the "wall", walk on a wide path past the observation tower and come across other remains of the border fence, an observation station and so on.

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874 m

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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905 m

Border gate and original border signal fence Sorge

Highlight • Historical Site

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

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914 m

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 (formerly mined and equipped with self-shot systems), you can still get a depressing impression of the fears of the GDR leadership.

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2.24 km

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

Highlight • Monument

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 the time of the division of Germany alive and to impart knowledge about this part of the story to future generations using original objects and contemporary documents.

In the open-air border museum there are remnants of the original border facility, which the community has saved from destruction. A history trail with information boards, remnants of border fences I and II, a border pillar, an observation tower, a water barrier and an earth bunker illustrate the system of border security.

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3.68 km

Parucke

Forest

8.84 km

Dicke Tannen (HWN 45) – Ancient spruce trees and rest area at the Wolfsbach

Highlight • Forest

It is worthwhile to stay there for a few minutes and take in such proud trees. Especially when you know that, like many other trees in the Harz, they might soon no longer be visible.

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