Lots for the soul! - Der Oberharz

Winding tower of the Ottiliae Shaft with mine train
at the Upper Harz Mountains Mining Museum
Technical University of Clausthal
Robert Koch Haus
This residential building typical of the Harz Mountains,
which is painted pink and located at Kronenplatz 12 in
Clausthal is where Robert Koch, who won the Nobel Prize
for Medicine in 1905, spent his youth. There is a bust
of this famous physician in front of the house. Robert
Koch, the founder of bacteriology, was born in 1843 as
the son of a miner family in Clausthal. Today the famous
son of the mining town (formerly with special rights)
of Clausthal-Zellerfeld is commemorated by various
buildings, such as his birth house at Osteröder Strasse
13, the hospital, a grammar school as well as a street
name. As a guest in Clausthal, you can explore Clausthal
following in the footsteps of Robert Koch, using a fl yer
available from the Tourist Information Offi ce.
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