Shopping Opportunities
For a small mountain town, Sankt Andreasberg boasts an impressively rich infrastructure. A highly praised bakery and pastry shop is located right at the beginning of Danielstraße. Additionally, guests will find a post office, a bank branch, a mountain pharmacy, a supermarket, a beverage market, a wine shop, a décor shop, a watch and jewelry store, a woodcarving workshop, a hairdresser, and a tourist information center, all within walking distance.
Culinary Offerings
Restaurants in the Town
- Two Italian restaurants and pizzerias
- One Greek restaurant
- Several inns offering German and international cuisine
Excursion Restaurants (small selection)
- Rinderstall
- Rehberger Grabenhaus
- Polsterberger Hubhaus
- Many more excursion restaurants (see information folder in the apartments)
Dining in Surrounding Towns
- Bad Lauterberg: Numerous restaurants, cafés, bars, and ice cream parlors
- Torfhaus: Gasthaus Bavaria
- Braunlage: Numerous restaurants, cafés, bars, and ice cream parlors
- Bad Sachsa: Numerous restaurants, cafés, bars, and ice cream parlors
Tourist Attractions in the Town (selection)
- Sternwarte St. Andreasberg: Barrier-free, the highest observatory in Northern Germany
- UNESCO World Heritage Site Grube Samson: With the only functioning “Fahrkunst”
- Protected mountain meadows: Rich in biodiversity, with a meadow flower festival during peak bloom
- Matthias-Schmidt-Berg: With chairlifts, summer toboggan run, and ski slopes
- National Park Center: Exhibitions, films, café
- Historical mining pond Oderteich: With a circular hiking trail and display panels
- Rehberger Graben: With historical Grabenhaus and Goetheplatz
- Mini-golf course: Probably the most beautifully located in the area
- Spa park: With a tree trail and “Hilfe Gottes” pond
- Toboggan runs in the Teichtal: Equipped with floodlighting
- High ropes course in Jangstel: On Jordanshöhe
Tourist Attractions in the Surrounding Area (selection)
- Water-Walking Trails: Along the Oberharzer Water Management System
- Mining pond cascades
- Reservoirs: Oder-, Söse-, Oker-, Grane-, Innerste-, and Rappbode reservoirs
- Harz National Park: “Let nature be nature”
- Ore mines in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Altenau
- Torfhaus: With inns and National Park info center
- Wurmberg: With cable car and observation tower
- Achtermann-Höhe: Offering breathtaking panoramic views
- Brocken: With Brocken Garden, narrow-gauge train station, and info center
- Green Belt: Wild nature along the former border
- Romantic Siebertal: With numerous hiking trails
- Acker Heights and Hanskühnenburg: With wide panoramic views and an inn
- Großer Knollen: With an observation tower and inn
- Bismarck Tower: With an observation tower and inn
- Visitor caves: In Bad Grund and Elbingerode
Different Distances (in km)
Badestelle/Gewässer (Wiesenbeeker Teich) 14
Sessellifte (Matthis-Schmidt-Berg) 1,2
Bergbahn (Kabinen-Seilbahn Wurmberg) 12
Sternwarte St. Andreasberg 3
Kurpark/Wald 0,3
Zentrum von St. Andreasberg 0,3
Tourist-Information St. Andreasberg 0,7
Bahnhof (Barbis, Regionalbahn) 17
ICE-Bahnhof (Göttingen) 55
Flughafen (HAJ Hannover) 139
Autobahnanschluss (A36) 25
Langlauf-Loipe (Jordanshöhe) 1,5
Skigebiet Abfahrtski (Matthias-Schmidt-Berg) 1,2
Wanderwege (z.B. am Glockenberg, Galgenberg) 0,2
Bushaltestelle (kostenlose Fahrt mit HATIX) 0,5
Krankenhaus/Klinik (Herzberg) 18
Geldautomat/Bank (Sparkasse) 0,4
Bäckerei & Konditorei (Kunze) 0,2
Supermarkt (Nahkauf, REWE-Gruppe) 0,6
Therme (Sole-Therme Bad Harzburg) 23
Mountainbike-Strecken 0,4
Schwimmbad / Spaßbad (Vitamar Bad Lauterberg) 12
Diverse Restaurants m. ital. und deutscher Küche 0,3
Apotheke (Bergstadt-Apotheke) 0,3