Heilig Kreuz, Walkenried

Name: Heilig Kreuz
Address: Walkenried, Germany

#2 among attractions in Walkenried

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The Church of the Holy Cross is the Catholic church in Walkenried, a municipality in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. It belongs to the parish "St. Benno", based in Bad Lauterberg, and is the most southeastern church in the deanery Nörten-Osterode of the diocese of Hildesheim. Named after the cross of Jesus, the church is located in the street Am Geiersberg 7. Its catchment area, which also includes the villages of Wieda and Zorge, today includes about 400 Catholics.

Architectural style: ModernCoordinates: 51°35'9"N, 10°36'50"E

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Heilig Kreuz – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Ravensberg, Oder Dam, Stöberhai, Kohnstein.

4.5 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Ravensberg, Bad Sachsa
114 min walk • The Ravensberg is a 659 m high mountain in the South Harz mountains in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is relatively isolated and visible for a long way. It lies in the district of Göttingen, north of Bad Sachsa. The mountain top is crowned with a prominent 64 m high tower, which was built in 1970.
6.2 miNW
Historic dam with an eatery and reservoir
Oder Dam
158 min walk • The Oder Dam is a dam in the Harz mountains of Germany. It lies above Bad Lauterberg in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony and impounds the river Oder. The dam went into service in 1934 after taking 3 years to build. The owner and operator of the Oder Dam is the Harzwasserwerke.
5.5 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Stöberhai
140 min walk • The Stöberhai is a mountain the Harz highlands in Central Germany, immediately south of the Oder Dam and northwest of Wieda. At a height of 720 m above sea level it is the highest mountain in the South Harz.
6.1 miSE
Hill with a storied WWII history
Kohnstein
155 min walk • The Kohnstein is a hill in Thuringia, Germany, 2 kilometres southwest of the village of Niedersachswerfen and 3 kilometres northwest of the centre of the town of Nordhausen.
5.4 miNE
Memorial
Drei-Länder-Stein
137 min walk • The Drei-Länder-Stein is a boundary stone at the tripoint of the German federal states of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia near the Großer Ehrenberg mountain in the Harz.
~1430 ftSE
Specialty museum, History museum, Church
ZisterzienserMuseum Kloster Walkenried, Walkenried
7 min walk • Walkenried Abbey was a Cistercian abbey located in the village of Walkenried in Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1127 on the southern rim of the Harz mountain range, the remnants of the monastic complex since 2010 are part of the Upper Harz Water Regale World Heritage Site.
3.3 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Jagdkopf
85 min walk • The Jagdkopf a hill, 603.1 m above sea level high, in the Harz Mountains of Germany. It is located between the villages of Wieda and Zorge in the unincorporated area of Harz in the district of Göttingen in the state of Lower Saxony.
5.1 miN
Memorial
Dicke Tannen
131 min walk • Dicke Tannen is a protected landscape, around 4.2 hectares in area, near the Harz village of Hohegeiß, which lies in the borough of Braunlage. It is the site of the mightiest spruce trees in North Germany; the individual trees reaching heights of 50 metres and trunk diameters of 100 to 180 centimetres.
4.6 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Großer Ehrenberg
117 min walk • The Großer Ehrenberg is a mountain, 635.5 m above sea level, and the highest peak in the Thuringian part of the Harz mountains. It is also the highest point of the county of Nordhausen in Germany.
3.1 miN
Distillery
Hammerschmiede, Zorge
80 min walk • Elsburn is the most famous Harz single malt whisky, produced by "Hercynian Distilling Co. / Hammerschmiede", a manufactory of spirits and distillery for whisky in the Harz Mountains of Lower Saxony.
2.8 miW
Church
Sankt Josef, Bad Sachsa
73 min walk • St. Joseph's Church is the Catholic church in Bad Sachsa, a town in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. It belongs to the parish "St. Benno", located in Bad Lauterberg, in the deanery Nörten-Osterode of the diocese of Hildesheim.

Heilig Kreuz, Walkenried

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Heilig Kreuz – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)