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Hessen Castle – Hessendamm Border Memorial loop from Jerxheim

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Hessen Castle – Hessendamm Border Memorial loop from Jerxheim

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Hessen Castle – Hessendamm Border Memorial loop from Jerxheim

02:22

37.5km

180m

Cycling

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 22, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 20.3 km for 265 m

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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9.17 km

Local History Museum and Optical Telegraph Station

Highlight • Historical Site

Opening hours: Every first and third Sunday of the month from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
or by prior arrangement!

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9.82 km

St. Mary's Church, Dedeleben

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St. Mary's Church has a Romanesque tower. This thick tower, supported by buttresses, has a slender, pyramid-shaped slate roof. The nave has Gothic forms. On the altar wall you can …

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14.4 km

Fruit Education Path

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ideal resting place, with 🌞shade, with 🌧️ canopy of leaves 😁 including fern👀

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20.1 km

Hessen Castle

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Not much can be seen of the castle. However, it is currently being rebuilt and a culture barn will be built here soon.

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25.4 km

Hessendamm Border Memorial and Watchtower

Highlight • Historical Site

Relic of the "Iron Curtain" across Germany. Today only a preserved border watchtower and the information point remind of the former border

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25.9 km

Hessendamm Border Memorial

Highlight • Historical Site

Very emotional place, I think! In this day and age we should all become aware that we should live freedom.

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26.0 km

Information Point on the Former Inner German Border (Wolfenbüttel–Halberstadt)

Highlight • Historical Site

Relic of the "Iron Curtain" across Germany. Today only a preserved border watchtower and the information point remind of the former border.

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26.0 km

Former Border Installation Mattierzoll

Highlight • Historical Site

The heavily guarded border between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR used to be on the border between Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.

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37.5 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

25.8 km

4.07 km

3.06 km

2.88 km

1.48 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

18.6 km

9.31 km

5.89 km

1.58 km

1.40 km

747 m

Elevation

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Highest point (140 m)

Lowest point (80 m)

Weather

Wednesday 20 May

19°C

11°C

65 %

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Hessen Castle – Hessendamm Border Memorial loop from Jerxheim

Local History Museum and Optical Telegraph Station

St. Mary's Church, Dedeleben

Fruit Education Path

Hessen Castle

Hessendamm Border Memorial and Watchtower

Hessendamm Border Memorial

Information Point on the Former Inner German Border (Wolfenbüttel–Halberstadt)

Former Border Installation Mattierzoll

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