Excursion (Transnational Romanticism)

Details Cost 55 € (coach fare + guided tours and admissions) Departure: 9:00 AM from Göttingen. Return: between 6:00 and 7:00 PM On Saturday, July 26 we will go on a coach tour to the Harz mountains, a region shaped by centuries of mining. Mining in the Harz once ensured the prosperity of the region and had a significant influence on the surrounding landscape and towns. We will visit Goslar, now a World Unesco Heritage Site, and Clausthal-Zellerfeld: two beautiful historic towns associated not only with the mining industry but also with Dorothy and William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In Goslar, we will take a guided tour through the medieval town with its many timber-framed houses and walk in the footsteps of Dorothy and William Wordsworth who spent a miserable icy winter here in 1798. It was in Goslar that Wordsworth had started The Prelude and written the Lucy Poems. After lunch (self-paid), we will drive to the old mining town Clausthal-Zellerfeld and take a guided tour through the Upper Harz Mining Museum (Oberharzer Bergwerksmuseum). Much of Coleridge’s Harz walking tour in 1799 had been informed by his mineralogical and geological interests and organised around the caves and then still working mines in the area.