Braunlage combines the history of winter sports in the Harz with trails by the water and seasonal offerings on Wurmberg. This provides several starting points for planning your trip: you can focus on skiing, a specific tour, or a cultural or leisure activity. If you are looking for a hotel in Braunlage, first consider which of these interests will shape your stay; the options differ considerably in theme and format.
Winter Sports History and Wurmberg
With its extensive collection, the Heimat-FIS Ski Museum is dedicated to the history of winter sports in the Harz and is recognized as a FIS ski museum. The ski area on Wurmberg sits at an elevation of 971 meters and is considered the highest and largest in the Harz. Its facilities include a gondola lift, a chairlift and several drag lifts; the slopes have varying levels of difficulty. The museum offers a historical perspective on the subject, while the ski area adds winter sports on the mountain as an activity. Since operating conditions vary by season, check whether it is open before your trip.
Tours and Nature Themes
The Wurmberg summit tour in Braunlage follows the Warmen Bode past the Lower and Upper Bode Waterfalls and through parts of Harz National Park. The Nature Myth Trail near Braunlage takes a different approach: its nine interactive stations explore the relationship between people and nature. This gives you two distinct formats to choose from: a tour featuring bodies of water and waterfalls along the route, and a themed trail. Braunlage also offers many hiking trails and mountain biking routes.
Mini Golf as Another Leisure Activity
The Adventure Golf Park is located at Harzburger StraĂźe 29. Its 14 holes range in length from 11 to 25 meters; mini golf is offered for the whole family. Alongside the hiking and mountain biking trails and the ski area, this provides a gaming activity with clearly defined hole lengths. When planning your trip, you can consider whether this format would complement your choice of activities.
Goslar as the Broader Travel Destination
The broader travel destination of Goslar offers its own cultural and historical perspective. Goslar’s historic old town is preserved as a unified whole across about one square kilometer and includes more than 1,500 half-timbered houses. St. Anne’s House on Glockengießerstraße is the oldest half-timbered house in Goslar’s old town to remain fully intact; it dates back to 1488. At the foot of Rammelsberg stands the Goslar Imperial Palace, which has been there for nearly 1,000 years and was once the seat of power for kings and emperors.
Goslar’s mining history is also very much in evidence: the former Rammelsberg ore mine is now a visitor mine where you can explore various aspects of the mining tradition. A museum attached to it documents its history. The Goslar Zwinger houses an exhibition on the late Middle Ages. It includes armor, siege equipment, weapons from the Peasants’ War of 1525 and the Thirty Years’ War, as well as objects related to medieval penal practices.
Discover more destinations: HohegeiĂź, Seesen, Liebenburg, Langelsheim, Oberharz, Lutter Am Barenberge, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Bad Harzburg.
View the overview of the broader travel destination: Goslar.
