Altenau Town Center – Schachtkopf Hut loop from Bergstadt Altenau

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Altenau Town Center – Schachtkopf Hut loop from Bergstadt Altenau

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Altenau Town Center – Schachtkopf Hut loop from Bergstadt Altenau

03:51

12.3km

450m

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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282 m

Altenau Town Center

Highlight • Settlement

For me it is one of the most beautiful towns in the West Harz region because of the great hiking trails

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500 m

Cobblestone Path to the Altenau Viewpoint

Highlight • Trail

Beautifully laid out cobblestone path up to the viewing point on Altenau.

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3.14 km

Harzer Wandernadel Stamp Station 134 – Gustav-Baumann Trail

Highlight • Rest Area

Quite unspectacular, but that's part of it.

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5.73 km

Butterstieg Trail (Wolfswarte Descent)

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Technically challenging trail, in rain and snow a REAL challenge

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8.17 km

Dammgraben (Oberharzer Wasserregal)

Highlight • Monument

This path is not just beautiful. You have the feeling that the water runs with you all the time. And if you then look at it or let it through …

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8.56 km

Förster-Ludewig-Platz — Memorial and HWN 133 Stamp Station

Highlight • Rest Area

Stamp point, refuge and rest area, memorial stone for fallen forest workers in the First World War, Harz water shelf with weir.
Definitely a highlight and rightly a hallmark of the HWN👍

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8.58 km

Schachtkopf Hut

Highlight • Mountain Hut

The hut has a typical resin construction. Hikers can easily assert themselves in bad weather. In front of the hut there is a small rest area right next to the Harzer Hexenstieg and the Dammgraben.

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10.8 km

Goetheplatz at the Pond

Highlight • Rest Area

A beautiful resting place with a pond and a bookshelf.

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12.3 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

7.62 km

3.20 km

1.01 km

357 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

7.21 km

3.38 km

714 m

596 m

392 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (880 m)

Lowest point (460 m)

Weather

Wednesday 21 October

10°C

4°C

31 %

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Max wind speed: 26.0 km/h

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Comments

April 27, 2024,Von Altenau zur Wolfswarte

@Andrea 🌼, thank you for your elaboration...it was a great tour...sun, water, snow, forest....👍🙋🏼‍♀️🥰

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December 31, 2023,Zur Wolfswarte 🌳🤗🥾👍🏻

Today on New Year's Eve we went directly from our base camp in Altenau to the Wolfswarte, 5 km uphill 😅great. Wonderful view of the Harz Mountains 😍Down over the Butterstieg, very slippery at the moment, but with caution and sure-footedness it can be done.
Nice experience 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳 Surefootedness, fitness and weather-appropriate equipment required 😉

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January 11, 2025,Rundkurs 15 km: Zwischen Altenau und der Wolfswarte. 5 Stempel HWN 132, 133, 134, 135, 149

The real reason for the hike was the visit to the Altenau brewery. The delicious cold drinks had to be refilled :-)
As the HWN 149 has been relocated, I designed the route a little differently than in previous years, next time I will include the old 149 location again.
What was much better was the snow. A wonderful snow …

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May 15, 2023,Von Karl Reinecke Weg 35, Altenau nach HWN 149 Kleine Oker, HWN 135 Wolfswarte, HWN 133 Förster Ludewig Platz, HWN 134 Gustav Baumann Weg, HWN 132 Schwarzenberg Köte Brockenblick

Tour 2, on we went. The hike to the Wolfswarte was demanding, it always went uphill over stones, rocks and roots. The view made up for everything again. We went back along the root path to the forester Ludewig Platz on gravel and narrow paths along the stream. The last stamp for today long above Altenau and it went through …

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January 18, 2025,Wolfswarte - Sonnencremepflichtig🌞❄️

We were already on our way to the Weserbergland to Hohenstein when we decided to go to the Harz because of the inversion weather. We also changed the winter hike that I had downloaded en route because it was boring and hopeless and spontaneously went up to the Wolfswarte via the Butterstieg. We did everything right!

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