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Hitzacker (Elbe) town entrance – Hitzacker Old Town Island loop from Hitzacker (Elbe)

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Hitzacker (Elbe) town entrance – Hitzacker Old Town Island loop from Hitzacker (Elbe)

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Hitzacker (Elbe) town entrance – Hitzacker Old Town Island loop from Hitzacker (Elbe)

01:24

5.43km

30m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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48 m

Archaeological Center Hitzacker

Highlight • Historical Site

In 1969 ceramic shards and earth discolorations appeared here during earthworks. The subsequent discoveries of several house plans and numerous archaeological finds in the next few years showed that this area had been inhabited by humans for 4,000 years. In 1990, the Archaeological Center Hitzacker and thus Germany's first Bronze Age open air museum was founded.
Worthy of mention are the numerous educational offers that make the early history (also for children) very understandable.

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451 m

Anti-Atom Knight Sculpture

Highlight • Monument

The "anti-nuclear knight" is part of the protest culture in Wendland. A plaque commemorates the occasion for this sculpture. Accompanied by peaceful protests, the last Castor transport with highly radioactive waste from France reached the Gorleben interim storage facility on the 1st of Advent in 2011.

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2.31 km

Hitzacker Village

Highlight • Settlement

We are building a village. A village in which we want to live and work sustainably. A village with space for all nationalities and generations, for rich and poor. Especially for those who have previously been socially disadvantaged: refugees, single parents, elderly people or people with handicaps.

hitzacker-dorf.de/textarticles/vision

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4.02 km

Julius Freiherr von dem Bussche Memorial Stone

Highlight • Monument

Julius Eberhard Arthur Karl Freiherr von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (born March 10, 1906 in Döbeln, † 1977 on Gut Dötzingen near Hitzacker) was a German landowner and politician.
Julius von dem Bussche was the only son of the landowner, officer and bearer of the order Pour le Mérite Georg Freiherr von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (1869–1923) and Gabriele Freiin von dem Bussche-Ippenburg (1877–1973). He studied agriculture at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. In 1925 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen. Following his studies in Göttingen, he completed practical training in agriculture and forestry and studied three more semesters at the Eberswalde Forest Academy. In autumn 1929 he took over the management of his estate Dötzin near Hitzacker. In the Second World War he took part as a reserve officer, most recently as a captain of the reserve.
After the end of the war, von dem Bussche became particularly involved in local politics in his homeland. From 1949 to 1972 he was mayor of Hitzacker and from 1956 to 1968 district administrator of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district. He belonged to the German Party and later to the Free Democratic Party. In 1957, he stood as a candidate for the German Bundestag in the Bundestag constituency of Lüneburg - Dannenberg at number 26 on the Lower Saxony state list.
He was married to Anna-Elisabeth von Pfuel (1909-2005), sister of Curt-Christoph von Pfuel, and was the brother of Gosta von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (1902-1996), mother of Claus von Amsberg, Prince Consort of the Dutch Queen Beatrix.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_von_dem_Bussche-Haddenhausen

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4.29 km

Hitzacker Old Town Island

Highlight • Settlement

You could leave Hitzacker too, but that would be a pity. Because then you would miss the picturesque old town on the small island between the Elbe and Jeetzel, which is ideal for at least a small coffee stop. Incidentally, Hitzacker owns - quite seriously - the northernmost vineyard in Germany.

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4.50 km

Old Customs House Hitzacker Museum

Highlight • Historical Site

In the heart of the town of Hitzacker (Elbe) is the customs house from the year 1589. Here the customs officer administered the once lucrative Elbe customs for the Celle line of the Welf House. The customs house is now a museum.
Here the visitor learns interesting facts about the checkered history of the town surrounded by water and often threatened by the Elbe. In addition to the history of the customs house, the Elbe toll, the history of the robber baron Riebe at the Weinbergburg or everyday urban finds, the visitor embarks on a journey through time to the recent past and can thus imagine how the topic of borders challenged people here. In addition, shipbuilding, shipping and hydraulic engineering played a central role for centuries.

We also meet the great sons of the city: the book prince, the Welf duke August d. J., who resided here from 1604 to 1634 and the beginnings of his library with the book wheel he developed, the founder of modern geography Bernhard Varenius and Prince Claus of the Netherlands, who was born in Hitzacker as Claus von Amsberg.
museum-hitzacker.de/start.html

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4.67 km

Half-timbered House "Zum Flötenspieler"

Highlight • Historical Site

The old half-timbered house “Zum Flötenspieler” from around 1680 in Deichstrasse 12 houses “two holiday apartments (53 sqm and 73 sqm), bicycles can be borrowed, dogs are welcome”.

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4.74 km

Hitzacker (Elbe) Sports Marina

Highlight • Rest Area

There is still little going on here, but the year is still young. But the sports marina looks great, the footbridges make a perfect impression, that's not the case everywhere. The Elbe is a great water sports area and popular, you can tell by the many moorings.

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5.43 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

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3.37 km

1.27 km

464 m

305 m

Surfaces

3.89 km

518 m

307 m

284 m

218 m

187 m

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Hitzacker (Elbe) town entrance – Hitzacker Old Town Island loop from Hitzacker (Elbe)

Archaeological Center Hitzacker

Anti-Atom Knight Sculpture

Hitzacker Village

Julius Freiherr von dem Bussche Memorial Stone

Hitzacker Old Town Island

Old Customs House Hitzacker Museum

Half-timbered House "Zum Flötenspieler"

Hitzacker (Elbe) Sports Marina

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