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World Heritage Day in the World Heritage in the Harz Mountains on June 4th 2023

"Our world. Our heritage. Our responsibility.” is the motto of this year's World Heritage Day, on June 4, 2023.
Together with the old town of Goslar, the Rammelsberg was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1992. In 2010, the World Heritage was expanded by the Upper Harz Water Management.
As a joint world heritage site, the Rammelsberg World Heritage Site, GOSLAR marketing gmbh and the World Heritage Foundation in the Harz Mountains are organizing a festival on two event areas.
Among other things, the topic "How can we sustainably preserve and preserve our world heritage?" plays a central role.
Theme-oriented hands-on activities and information stands for the whole family as well as suppliers of regional products can be found at the "Marktkirche" and at the "Rammelsberg World Heritage Site".
 

The exhibition by the artist Schirin Fatemi shows a selection of paintings and prints that illuminate the relationship between humans and the natural and cultural landscape. A basis for her compositions is the direct experience on site. The Harz Mountains also inspired the artist for the works shown: forests in the process of transformation, clearings, ditches and water landscapes as well as motifs relating to the Walkenried Monastery. Schirin Fatemi, born in Würzburg, studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and Rome. Since 2008 her work has been represented in numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad as well as in public and private collections. She lives and works as a freelance artist near Hanover and in Rome. Her artistic focus today is on painting and printmaking.

Date: Sunday 4 June 2023
Time: 2 p.m. - 5 p.m

Cistercian Museum Walkenried Monastery
Steinweg 4a
37445 Walkenried
Email: info@kloster-walkenried.de
Telephone: 05525 - 95 99 064

Portrait photo Schirin Fatemi © Ulf Jasmer

04 June at 3-4 p.m

Guided tour on the subject of sustainability in the Cistercian Museum in Walkenried Abbey. Walkenried Monastery is part of the UNESCO World Heritage in the Harz Mountains.

Churches and monasteries were once built to last. That was the lofty goal that should also apply to the Gothic monastery complex of Walkenried.

As the impressive ruins of the monastery church show, this request was only partially successful. The completely preserved cloister has at least survived the centuries. Regional building materials and innovative building techniques were also en vogue in the Middle Ages – but did people therefore build “sustainably”? Can our sustainability goals even be compared with the values ​​of a medieval man? Go on a search for clues with us!

Register for the tour at least one day in advance at info@kloster-walkenried.de or 05525 95 99 064.

Admission to the museum is free on the day of the event. The price for the guided tour is €3.

More information at
kloster-walkenried.de
05525 95 99 064
info@kloster-walkenried.de

Visitors in front of the entrance to the Walkenried Monastery Cistercian Museum © Brigitte Moritz

Ponds, ditches and watercourses run through the picturesque landscape of the Upper Harz. They are the visible components of the Upper Harz water management system, which developed between the 16th and 19th centuries. The ponds were once used to store energy and supplied the drive water for ore mining, for the mine pumps and later for the underground transport of people. In this new special tour, the focus is on technology: driving skills, field objects, Kehrrad and many more.

The tour takes place in the Upper Harz Mining Museum, Bornhardtstr. 16, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld. Admission is free, donations are welcome.

Times: 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m

Field rods at the Upper Harz Mining Museum © Upper Harz Mining Museum

Lecture National Park Harz by Thomas Beck "National Park and Forest in Transition" at 1:30 p.m

How can nature conservation and responsible use of resources have a positive impact? In addition to basic information on the tasks of a national park, the discussion of currently changing forest patterns and their causes is to be discussed, but also ways in which each individual can make a positive contribution to protecting the climate and nature, so to speak, our living space.

The lecture will take place in the meeting room of the Upper Harz Mining Museum. Admission is via the main entrance to the museum at Bornhardtstraße 16. Admission is free, donations are welcome.

lecture dr Friedhart Knolle "From overexploitation to sustainability - 6,000 years of mining in and around the Harz Mountains" at 4 p.m

The Harz region is one of the oldest mining and industrial areas in Central Europe. There were flint mines here as early as 6,000 years ago and the mining of copper minerals began in the Bronze Age over 3,500 years ago.

But mining had a downside - the soil, ground and surface water, as well as the air and flora, fauna and humans were heavily contaminated with metals for a long time, especially in the vicinity of Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Goslar and Langelsheim and in the Mansfeld- Eisleben-Sangerhausen. Animals and plants were wiped out and the species-rich beech and mixed forests of the Harz gave way to species-poor spruce monocultures. This fact represents the downside of the UNESCO World Heritage in the Harz Mountains.

Overexploitation and natural landscape - and still a promising future - how do these conflicts of use fit together? Follow the speaker Dr. Friedhart Knolle, on a journey through 6,000 years of mining history in the Harz Mountains. Numerous guests are welcome.

The lecture will take place in the meeting room of the Upper Harz Mining Museum. Admission is via the main entrance to the museum at Bornhardtstraße 16. Admission is free, donations are welcome.

Image: Dam at the Oderteich © Foundation World Heritage in the Harz Mountains

Hydroelectric power plants still play a role in the UNESCO World Heritage area west of Clausthal.
Water wheels and turbines and the associated ditches, watercourses and special structures can be found everywhere in the large Clausthal and in the Zellerfeld valley - some of them are still in operation today.

 

Start and finish: Ottiliaeschacht between the train arrivals
Start: 11:30 a.m., after the arrival of the day conveyor.
Duration: approx. 2h.

Image: Historical photo from around 1930 of the Einersberg power station that burned down in 1980 © Collection Upper Harz Mining Museum

On World Heritage Day in Hahnenklee, the certified World Heritage guide Mr. Pfannkuche goes on a guided hike through the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Upper Harz Water Management" in Hahnenklee-Bockswiese. On the way, the hikers learn interesting and exciting things about this special cultural monument, which is considered to be the most important pre-industrial energy generation and energy supply system in the world. In addition, the hiking guide addresses the current forest change. The route leads along several ditches of the "Upper Harz Water Management", such as the Kuttelbacher Graben or the Schalker Graben, and the Grumbacher ponds, with a wide variety of functionalities being explained. Another highlight of the hike is the "Avenue of the Future" on the Liebesbankweg. The "Avenue of the Future" is part of the "Climate Action Forest" of the Lower Saxony State Forests.

Length: 7-8 km
Start and finish: Cure house in Hahnenklee
Start: 10 a.m
Duration: approx. 4 hours
Price: Participants with a guest card free of charge, without a guest card €2.00 per person.

Picture: Auerhahn cascade of ponds © Oberharzer Bergwerksmuseum.