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Hitzacker Old Town Island – Glück Auf Dwarf loop from Harlingen

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Hitzacker Old Town Island – Glück Auf Dwarf loop from Harlingen

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Hitzacker Old Town Island – Glück Auf Dwarf loop from Harlingen

02:07

8.14km

50m

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: June 10, 2026

Tips

Includes a movable bridge

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After 4.09 km for 24 m

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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3.55 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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3.77 km

Glück Auf Dwarf

Highlight • Monument

one of countless themed dwarves spread throughout the city

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3.78 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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4.10 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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4.32 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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4.91 km

Julius Freiherr von dem Bussche Memorial Stone

Highlight • Monument

Julius Eberhard Arthur Karl Freiherr von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (born March 10, 1906 in Döbeln, † 1977 on Gut Dötzingen near Hitzacker) was a German landowner and politician.
Julius von dem Bussche was the only son of the landowner, officer and bearer of the order Pour le Mérite Georg Freiherr von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (1869–1923) and Gabriele Freiin von dem Bussche-Ippenburg (1877–1973). He studied agriculture at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. In 1925 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen. Following his studies in Göttingen, he completed practical training in agriculture and forestry and studied three more semesters at the Eberswalde Forest Academy. In autumn 1929 he took over the management of his estate Dötzin near Hitzacker. In the Second World War he took part as a reserve officer, most recently as a captain of the reserve.
After the end of the war, von dem Bussche became particularly involved in local politics in his homeland. From 1949 to 1972 he was mayor of Hitzacker and from 1956 to 1968 district administrator of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district. He belonged to the German Party and later to the Free Democratic Party. In 1957, he stood as a candidate for the German Bundestag in the Bundestag constituency of Lüneburg - Dannenberg at number 26 on the Lower Saxony state list.
He was married to Anna-Elisabeth von Pfuel (1909-2005), sister of Curt-Christoph von Pfuel, and was the brother of Gosta von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (1902-1996), mother of Claus von Amsberg, Prince Consort of the Dutch Queen Beatrix.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_von_dem_Bussche-Haddenhausen

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4.94 km

Anti-Atom Knight Sculpture

Highlight • Monument

The "anti-nuclear knight" is part of the protest culture in Wendland. A plaque commemorates the occasion for this sculpture. Accompanied by peaceful protests, the last Castor transport with highly radioactive waste from France reached the Gorleben interim storage facility on the 1st of Advent in 2011.

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5.04 km

Half-Timbered House with Blue Door

Highlight • Structure

beautiful old house, very well maintained (apparently)

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8.14 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

3.05 km

2.44 km

2.32 km

196 m

139 m

Surfaces

3.82 km

2.62 km

1.31 km

206 m

188 m

Elevation

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Weather

Thursday 9 July

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Comments

December 4, 2021,Zum Zahnarzt | Tour und Türchen № 7

December 4, 2021
To the dentist | Tour and door № 7

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December 20, 2021,Wintersonnenwende | Tour und Türchen № 8

December 21, 2021
Winter solstice | Tour & door № 8

The self-imposed pressure to hike every day during the Advent season does not lead to burnout, but gives birth to the idea of recording and publishing a “refrigerator-filling round” for today.

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Hitzacker Old Town Island

Glück Auf Dwarf

Old Customs House Hitzacker Museum

Swing Bridge over the Jeetzel River (Hitzacker)

Hiddo-Steg pedestrian bridge over the Jeetzel

Julius Freiherr von dem Bussche Memorial Stone

Anti-Atom Knight Sculpture

Half-Timbered House with Blue Door

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