Bear Monument

It stands by a forest track and walking trail in woods not far from the Bremer Teich and the Viktorshöhe hill and marks the spot where the last bear was killed in 1696 in the Anhalt Forest.

It is a glacial erratic boulder on which a cast-iron memorial plate with an inscription has been affixed.

The last bear in the Upper Harz was killed about 90 years later near Wernigerode.

A coachman or carter named Buchtekirch shot it between 1786 and 1788 and received a reward form of two Reichstaler from the Count of Stolberg.

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