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Sorge Border Museum – Sorge Border Museum loop from Sorge

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Sorge Border Museum – Sorge Border Museum loop from Sorge

Moderate

4.5

(120)

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Sorge Border Museum – Sorge Border Museum loop from Sorge

02:37

9.38km

180m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: May 25, 2026

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1.22 km

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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1.43 km

Sorge Border Museum

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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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1.46 km

Border Gate at the Harz Open-Air Museum

Highlight • Historical Site

This relic is the border signal fence (here the modified version with a lane gate, built at great expense in the early 1980s). Due to topographical reasons, it stood at varying distances from the actual border fence. Typically, the control strip, patrol road, and border towers were located between the two fences.

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1.46 km

Border gate and original border signal fence Sorge

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

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1.79 km

View of Wurmberg and Brocken

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Beautiful view of the Wurmberg and the Brocken surrounded by a piece of German history.

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3.14 km

Kolonnenweg (Green Belt) – Former Border Patrol Road

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Hiking on the border paths is a constant reminder of the recent history of Germany and makes us aware of how happy we can be to have overcome the division.

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4.21 km

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Forest

4.51 km

Kolonnenweg Border Path Towards Sorge

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Remembrance of German/German past.

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7.22 km

View of the Brocken

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9.38 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

6.80 km

1.38 km

570 m

499 m

108 m

Surfaces

3.39 km

2.37 km

1.79 km

979 m

836 m

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Highest point (600 m)

Lowest point (480 m)

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Friday 26 June

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Sorge Border Museum – Sorge Border Museum loop from Sorge

Sorge Border Museum

Sorge Border Museum

Border Gate at the Harz Open-Air Museum

Border gate and original border signal fence Sorge

View of Wurmberg and Brocken

Kolonnenweg (Green Belt) – Former Border Patrol Road

Kolonnenweg Border Path Towards Sorge

View of the Brocken

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