Karst Trail

The Karstwanderweg is over 250 km long, signposted and marked hiking trail in the district of Osterode am Harz in Lower Saxony, in the district of Nordhausen and Kyffhauserkreis in Thuringia and in the district of Mansfeld- South Harz in Saxony -Anhalt ( Germany ).

It leads from Lower Saxony Förste through the karst landscape of the southern Harz, including through the Rudigsdorfer Switzerland, in Saxony-Anhalt Pölsfeld. Furthermore, there is a section that leads into Thuringia Auleben to Bad Frankenhausen.

The path opens up numerous natural attractions including caves as the Heimkehle and Barbarossa cave, sinkholes, landslides as the Juessee or Beberteich and the Floating Island to and without drainage waters like the ashes Hütter pond Wiedensee and the boiler swamp, bog landscapes such as the devil bathrooms, karst springs as the Rhumequelle and the Devils Hole, Bach shrinkage and Flussversinkungen as the farmer digging and seepage of Sieber, as well as numerous gypsum rock.

The medieval deserted villages Hage, Königshagen and Smerbeke lie on Karstwanderweg.

For the Karstwanderweg own marker was created. It is the white first letter K on a red bar on a white background.