Maaßener Gaipel
The Maaßener Gaipel is a pub catering for day trippers on the northeastern hillside of the Kranichsberg at a height of , situated above the mining town of Lautenthal in the Harz Mountains of central Germany. The name goes back to the above-ground workings of the ''Maaßener Treibschacht'' or Maaßen Hoisting Shaft , which was located immediately east of the inn. ''Gaipel'' is a common expression in the Upper Harz for a headframe (''Schachtgebäude'' or ''Treibehaus'') and goes back to the use of a horse whim (mining), whim which in German is a ''Pferdegöpel''. Whims were used to transport men and materiel up and down Shaft mining, mineshafts, for example using man engines, and also to operate water management equipment. ''Maaßen'' is shorthand for the name of the local pit which was the ''Grube Zweite, Dritte, Vierte, Fünfte und Sechste Maß nach der Sachsenzeche''. ''Maaß'', also variously spelt ''Maaß, Maas'' or ''Mas'', is a unit of length for a pit field (''Grubenfeld'') a ...
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