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Osterode am Harz
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Round tour in Osterode's old town
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Fire Engine house place
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Behind the vocational schools one can still find parts of the Osteroder town wall.
Further up the road towards the Fire Engine house place in the Neustadt.
One recognises here a clear road layout that is different to the old town's nooks and crannies. This goes back to the clear planning of duke Otto in the year 1238, who built Osterode's new part.
On the right side one can see the Neustädter school and can recognise style elements of the Schachtrupp villa.
Go further up the road towards upper Neustadt and one can see on the left and right the lovingly restored half-timbered houses.
Around the Rollberg
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A typical feature of the town houses in the Harz is, that their eaves point towards the road.
We reach from the upper Neustadt on the right the so-called Amtshof with the here based Local Court. The Amtshof is being dominated by St. Jacobi-palace church, one of Osterode's oldest churches.
From the St. Jacobi palace church we go through the road Burgfrieden over the Jacobitorstrasse (who's name is a reminder of one of the four town gates) to the Rollberg.
In the past, the traffic leads at the Rollberg from the Harz foreland to the Oberharz. Some of the buildings have already been built in the 16.century.
At the Rollberg 32 we find the museum at the Ritterhaus. The figure at the corner gave Osterode's local museum its name.
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