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After a gray week, it's finally nice outside again. The route I'm presenting to you today takes you past the Spiegelthal waterfall. Have fun hiking.
The route starts and ends at the parking lot at the Aldi supermarket in Zellerfeld. This time, the route is around five and a half kilometers long and can be completed in just over an hour. As soon as you leave the parking lot, a path forks in two directions. Keep to the left: Here is a path that you can simply follow. The Stadtweger pond, which you will pass on the way back, is clearly visible from a distance. The route leads through a small wooded area and finally to a small crossroads with the Zellerfelder Kunstgraben, an old mining trench. The Spiegelthal valley, where you are currently walking, is criss-crossed by more ditches than any other valley in the Upper Harz.
Now continue straight ahead and follow the path, which after a while leads quite steeply downhill. There you come to another fork with a mining trench. If you keep to the left of the ditch, you will reach the Spiegelthal waterfall after a few meters. This dates back to a time when log rafting was practiced. This means that tree trunks one to three meters long slid down the waterfall and were transported down the valley into the Innerste. Now go back the way you came to the waterfall and follow the ditch in the other direction. After a few minutes you come to a wider path, which you follow. It goes uphill a little and eventually you come out on the road that connects Clausthal-Zellerfeld and Goslar. However, you leave this quite quickly, as a narrow path leads you directly to the Stadtweger Teich pond, which you could see from a distance earlier. Continue straight ahead along the pond and you will soon reach the parking lot again.
Did you like the route? Or do you have any feedback? Then send me an email to blog@tu-clausthal.de
