Property Description
Holiday flat in 2015 newly renovated for 2 – 4 persons +1 Toddler up to 3 years.
(Infants up to 3 years free)
Located on the edge of the Harz with short paths for long walks (The cultural-historical pond landscape is open to hikers) or in winter for skiing (Bad Sachsa, Braunlage, Hohegeiß, etc.). Shopping facilities in the village. Naturbadesee about 2 km away from the apartment.
The former Cistercian monastery Walkenried from the 12th Century was extensively restored and can be visited. In the cloister every summer the Walkenrieder monastery concerts.
Germany known throughout the place was after the Second World War, when there was here between Ellrich Walkenried and on the so-called South Harz Railway one of the most important railway border crossings between the British and the Soviet occupation zone.
Walkenried was first mentioned in 1085th Historical center is the 1127 built by Cistercian monastery Walkenried. The originally forested Walkenrieder swampland was from the 12th Century converted by the monks of the monastery in a rich pond landscape with fertile farmland. 365 ponds were created by the monks to have a pond for fishing out available according to tradition, for every day of the year. Today, however, only 50 of them detectable. All ponds are located in the nature reserve “Prior pond / Sachsensteinblick”. Some ponds are now managed by the local angling club.
