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Hitzacker Old Town Island loop from Hitzacker (Elbe)

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Hitzacker Old Town Island loop from Hitzacker (Elbe)

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Hitzacker Old Town Island loop from Hitzacker (Elbe)

01:35

6.06km

50m

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: June 18, 2026

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Includes a movable bridge

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After 4.64 km for 24 m

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Start point

Parking

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1.06 km

Jeetzel Riverside Walk in Hitzacker

Highlight • River

The Jeetzel is a small river that flows here at Hitzacker in the Elbe. Jeetzel and Alte Jeetzel completely surround Hitzacker's old town, so that one is always on the water. On the shore are small motor boats and houseboats, a river restaurant and a wonderful promenade running along here.

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3.79 km

Hitzacker Old Town Island

Highlight • Settlement

You could leave Hitzacker too, but that would be a pity. Because then you would miss the picturesque old town on the small island between the Elbe and Jeetzel, which is ideal for at least a small coffee stop. Incidentally, Hitzacker owns - quite seriously - the northernmost vineyard in Germany.

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4.13 km

Hitzacker (Elbe) Sports Marina

Highlight • Rest Area

There is still little going on here, but the year is still young. But the sports marina looks great, the footbridges make a perfect impression, that's not the case everywhere. The Elbe is a great water sports area and popular, you can tell by the many moorings.

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4.34 km

Old Customs House Hitzacker Museum

Highlight • Historical Site

In the heart of the town of Hitzacker (Elbe) is the customs house from the year 1589. Here the customs officer administered the once lucrative Elbe customs for the Celle line of the Welf House. The customs house is now a museum.
Here the visitor learns interesting facts about the checkered history of the town surrounded by water and often threatened by the Elbe. In addition to the history of the customs house, the Elbe toll, the history of the robber baron Riebe at the Weinbergburg or everyday urban finds, the visitor embarks on a journey through time to the recent past and can thus imagine how the topic of borders challenged people here. In addition, shipbuilding, shipping and hydraulic engineering played a central role for centuries.

We also meet the great sons of the city: the book prince, the Welf duke August d. J., who resided here from 1604 to 1634 and the beginnings of his library with the book wheel he developed, the founder of modern geography Bernhard Varenius and Prince Claus of the Netherlands, who was born in Hitzacker as Claus von Amsberg.
museum-hitzacker.de/start.html

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4.65 km

Swing Bridge over the Jeetzel River (Hitzacker)

Highlight • Bridge

In 2001, the investor Peter Schneeberg bought Hitzacker's port from the city and has invested more than 26.5 million euros to date (according to his own statements). In building a hotel, in the expansion of the port facility into a modern sports boat harbor. In 2018 he donated a swiveling steel bridge to the “pigs pasture”. It replaces an old concrete bridge so that larger yachts can enter and leave the port without any problems.

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4.87 km

Hiddo-Steg pedestrian bridge over the Jeetzel

Highlight • Bridge

From the Hiddo jetty you have a beautiful view of the Elbe and Jeetzel. Its striking height characterizes the cityscape and allows larger vessels to navigate the river.
The wooden bridge was named after the Frisian knight Hiddo Kauchen.

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5.77 km

View of the Elbe River in the Elbe Valley Nature Park

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Here you can take a relaxed stroll

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6.06 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

3.02 km

1.53 km

794 m

525 m

172 m

Surfaces

3.66 km

813 m

750 m

561 m

260 m

Elevation

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Weather

Wednesday 8 July

23°C

12°C

42 %

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Hitzacker Old Town Island loop from Hitzacker (Elbe)

Jeetzel Riverside Walk in Hitzacker

Hitzacker Old Town Island

Hitzacker (Elbe) Sports Marina

Old Customs House Hitzacker Museum

Swing Bridge over the Jeetzel River (Hitzacker)

Hiddo-Steg pedestrian bridge over the Jeetzel

View of the Elbe River in the Elbe Valley Nature Park

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