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A huge white cross on the hills above Bad Harzburg was erected in memory of the former German territories in eastern Europe from which they were forcibly ejected at the end of the Second World War due to the Yalta Agreement. There is a circular walk with stones placed at intervals with the shields and names of such territories as Danzig (now Gdańsk in Poland), Silesia, Pomerania, the Sudetenland (in Bohemia), West Prussia, and East Prussia.
The former imperial castle, now ruined was built by Emperor Henry IV to guard trade routes and the lucrative mining region of the Harz. It was slighted during wars with the Saxons. Today the ruins are accessible to the public and there are information boards, a small cafe in the summer and a viewing point with the Canossa Column with great views over the town to the North German Plain
there is a restaurant and a children's railway integrated into the landscape.
medieval spring