The best MTB trails around Flöthe

Nice path, especially in spring there are liverworts, snowdrops and primroses here.

We were there in March and came from the industrial park in Salzgitter-Bad. We had to carry our bikes across the first stream, which was a real challenge with an e-bike. Then it was a steep climb to reach the fantastic trail. The trail is fun. It's not very busy overall, and there was some wood lying on the trail from the winter, but that wasn't a problem. We also had to carry a few fallen trees. A beautiful, natural trail.

The good visibility makes it possible 😊

Beautiful to linger

Well, that sign speaks to my heart! "Foolish hands smear tables and walls, fools with knives are no better!"

It looks like something out of a Winnetou movie. Nature and silence...

Salzgitter [zalt͡sˈɡɪtɐ] is a large city in the northern Harz foothills, in the southeast of the state of Lower Saxony. The independent city is the headquarters of Salzgitter AG and, together with the cities of Braunschweig and Wolfsburg, forms a regiopol region and one of the nine major centers in the state. It is part of the Hanover-Brunswick-Göttingen-Wolfsburg metropolitan region. Salzgitter has existed in its current form since 1942 and was one of the few new cities founded in Germany in the first half of the 20th century.

The church has elements of Gothic (windows), Renaissance and Baroque (gables). This stylistic diversity is characteristic of the post-Gothic period, in which the elements of Gothic were deliberately used to convey "ancient venerability". The history of the main church BMV is closely linked to the development of Wolfenbüttel into a ducal residence. To the east of the castle there was previously a small chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, which was first mentioned in documents in 1301. Duke Henry the Younger converted it into a ducal burial place in 1533, and the first large Protestant church was built on this site around half a century later, retaining the name. The trigger was a request from the "preachers and church fathers" with which they approached the reigning Duke Henry Julius in January 1604. He was also keen to build a new burial place for the princely family at the same time. Construction began in 1608 under the direction of the ducal master builder Paul Francke. In 1613, work had progressed so far that Duke Heinrich Julius, who had died unexpectedly in Prague, could be buried in the new princely crypt. Despite the Thirty Years' War, construction work was largely completed by 1624. The temporary roof on the tower was not replaced by the current baroque spire until 1751. The portals on the north and south sides are attributed to the sculptor Jacob Meyerheine. St. Mary's Church was intended to be a church for preaching and communion to proclaim the Reformation faith to the congregation, but at the same time to fulfill the desire for princely representation. Paul Francke drew on the Gothic concept of the Low German hall churches. At the same time, St. Mary's Church also shows ideas of "humanistic architecture" from Italy and the Dutch Renaissance. The total work of art, combined in its own "manner", is thus an example of German Mannerism. However, the west portal, completed in 1645, was clearly created in the Baroque style. Source: Wikipedia