Dammgraben Water Channel – Wolfswarte loop from Bergstadt Altenau

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Dammgraben Water Channel – Wolfswarte loop from Bergstadt Altenau

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Dammgraben Water Channel – Wolfswarte loop from Bergstadt Altenau

03:48

11.5km

470m

Hiking

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

Last updated: September 25, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through a protected area

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Nationalpark Harz

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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1.75 km

Okerteich Natural Swimming Lake

Highlight • Lake

Idyllic unsupervised swimming pond.

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1.85 km

Okertal Forest Outdoor Pool (Okertaler Pond Outdoor Pool)

Highlight • Lake

Unfortunately, the restaurant is currently closed.

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2.73 km

Silver Spring

Highlight • Natural Monument

No silver comes out, but water. It's better to drink.

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2.75 km

Dammgraben Water Channel

Highlight • Monument

Walking along the Dammgraben is always nice. Should you plan

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3.01 km

Kleine Oker Dam Keeper's Cabin and Weir

Highlight • Mountain Hut

Here the little Oker crosses the ditch. For the numerous stream crossings, so-called "failures" have been set up, which prevent debris from being washed into the trench and enable the …

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4.31 km

Butterstieg Trail (Wolfswarte Descent)

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Technically challenging trail, in rain and snow a REAL challenge

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5.97 km

Wolfswarte

Highlight • Summit

The highest mountain in Lower Saxony, the Wurmberg, is known beyond the state's borders. As is so often the case, however, the runner-up is in the shadow of the limelight. …

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8.75 km

Harzer Wandernadel Stamp Station 134 – Gustav-Baumann Trail

Highlight • Rest Area

Quite unspectacular, but that's part of it.

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11.5 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

4.99 km

4.37 km

1.85 km

267 m

Surfaces

5.28 km

4.95 km

588 m

285 m

229 m

134 m

Elevation

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Weather

Thursday 8 October

9°C

6°C

98 %

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Max wind speed: 27.0 km/h

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Comments

February 12, 2022,Weils so schön war: Kleine Oker - Wolfswarte - Gustav Baumann-Weg (HWN 149 - 135 - 134)

Swimming quality: 👍🏻
Kneipp quality: 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Snow quality: 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

What a winter dream 🥰 Slipped out of the basket this morning and took a look behind the curtain and: Yiiieeeeaaaaah dear Mrs. Sun is back from hiding 😍 Mum says that's not quite right because she was more hidden than sunk , but I don't care, the main thing is …

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August 14, 2025,Wolfs 🐺warte ⛰️

Since I'm known for enjoying a hike after a car ride 🚙, I've planned another route "to go."

The tour was supposed to be short, as I was still having some problems with my foot 🦶🏻; but it wasn't much colder than here, as I'd hoped - surprisingly, with 30°C in the blazing midday sun. 🥵At the beginning, I almost …

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October 10, 2023,Wanderung

Nice weather in the Harz, so up to the Bruchberg/Wolfswarte, the third highest mountain in the Harz. Wonderful hike on well-known paths. Always a must when we are here. The tourists only walk to the Brocken, and they should, so the true hiker has peace and quiet.

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December 11, 2021,Altenau Rundweg HWN 134,135,149

Sun, snow and stamp. So, off to Altenau.
Unfortunately, I wasn't lucky enough to find these cute crocheted socks or witches in the stamp boxes on this tour either. 😔 will work at some point.
Instead there was a beautifully snow-covered winter landscape. 🏔⛄❄☀️
The start was the parking lot Im Schultal / Altenau. Parallel to the small Oker we …

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January 21, 2024,Wanderung Altenau - Wolfswarte🥾👨‍👧‍👦🐕❄️🌲🗻(HWN 134, 135 & 149)

After the many beautiful snow pictures of the last few days (e.g. from @Susanne Kämpfer🤗) it was clear: today we're going to the Harz!
So off to Altenau and from there via the Butterstieg to the Wolfswarte and back.
A nice round trip with 3 stamps.
The climb was a bit difficult due to snow and ice🥵 but at the …

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December 8, 2024,Altenau - Wolfsscharte - Altenau

From Altenau to the Wolfsscharte. The way back via the Buttersteig required concentration and surefootedness. Later, fallen trees blocked the way. We needed a sense of adventure and climbing skills.

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September 26, 2023,Am Kunstberg -> HWN 134/135/133/149

GOLD! :)
With this tour, stamps 24-27 were added to our collection and so we were able to get our Harz hiking pin in gold!
In bright sunshine and over 20 degrees (and sunburned face) this was a very nice tour and fortunately planned in the right direction. At the beginning it was almost 5 kilometers steadily uphill, but this …

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April 26, 2024,Wolfswarte über Hexensteig und Buttersteig

A very nice hike in dry, partly sunny weather. Challenging in the upper section due to the remaining snow. On the way back we went along a wonderful meadow path.

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