The Karst Trail (german: Karstwanderweg) is a marked and signed
footpath that runs for over 250 kilometres between
Förste in
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...
and
Pölsfeld in
Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of
and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making it th ...
through the
karst landscape of the
South Harz in
Germany
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.
The path runs past a number of areas of natural beauty, including caves like the
Heimkehle and the
Barbarossa Cave
The Barbarossa Cave (german: Barbarossahöhle) is an anhydrite cave (gypsum cave) in the Kyffhäuser Hills near Rottleben in the east German state of Thuringia. It is a cave with large caverns, grottos and lakes. The anhydrite has formed gypsum ...
,
sinkhole
A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are locally also known as ''vrtače'' and shakeholes, and to openi ...
s like the
Juessee and the
Schwimmende Insel, depressions, moor landscapes like the
Teufelsbäder, karst springs like the
Rhumequelle and the
Teufelsloch,
disappearing streams and subterranean rivers like the
Bauerngraben and gypsum rocks.
External links
Homepage of the Karst Trail
Hiking trails in Germany
Karst formations of Germany
Tourist attractions in Lower Saxony
Tourist attractions in Saxony-Anhalt
Osterode (district)
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