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Harz Railway
The Harz Railway or Trans-Harz Railway (german: Harzquerbahn) was formerly the main line of the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (''Harzer Schmalspurbahnen'' or ''HSB'') and runs north to south right across the Harz Mountains from Wernigerode to Nordhausen. However, the tourist attraction of the Brocken, the highest mountain in the Harz, is so great that the Brocken Railway is effectively the main line today. The Trans-Harz Railway joins up with the Selke Valley Railway to Quedlinburg at Eisfelder Talmühle where all trains are organised to make good connections. Route The line begins at the HSB's narrow gauge station in Nordhausen (Nordhausen Nord). It lies in northwest of and parallel to the standard gauge railway station. After passing the link line to the Nordhausen Tramway that joins it from the right, the railway bends towards the north and runs for 7 km to the station of Niedersachswerfen Ost almost parallel to the standard gauge line from Nordhausen to Ellrich (the Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordhausen, Thuringia
Nordhausen () is a city in Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the Nordhausen district and the urban centre of northern Thuringia and the southern Harz region; its population is 42,000. Nordhausen is located approximately north of Erfurt, west of Halle, south of Braunschweig and east of Göttingen. Nordhausen was first mentioned in records in the year 927 and became one of the most important cities in central Germany during the later Middle Ages. The city is situated on the Zorge river, a tributary of the Helme within the fertile region of Goldene Aue ''(golden floodplain)'' at the southern edge of the Harz mountains. In the early 13th century, it became a free imperial city, so that it was an independent and republican self-ruled member of the Holy Roman Empire. Due to its long-distance trade, Nordhausen was prosperous and influential, with a population of 8,000 around 1500. It was the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt, today's capital, and Mühlhausen, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundesstraße 81
The German Bundesstraße 81 (abbreviated to: B81) acts as a main road link between Magdeburg, Halberstadt and Nordhausen. Course It begins in the city of Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt at the Bundesstraße 71 (Magdeburg Ring). Just before the southern end of Magdeburg is the junction with the A 14 motorway. This is followed by the Langenweddingen ring road. This section was upgraded in the wake of the Langenweddingen train crash, in which 94 people were killed on 6 July 1967. South of Langenweddingen the B 81 crosses the B 246a, which runs from Wanzleben (West) to Schönebeck (Elbe) (Ost). In the area of the Egeln ring road the B 180 from Wanzleben joins B 81. As the ring road continues it crosses the River Bode. Following that the B 180 joins from Aschersleben. The B 81 continues along the Kroppenstedt ring road, built in 2007/2008, and crosses the Bode again as it bypasses the village of Gröningen. Shortly before Halberstadt it is crossed by the B 245 from Schwanebe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brocken Railway
The Brocken Railway (german: Brockenbahn) is one of three tourist metre gauge railways which together with the Harz Railway and Selke Valley Railway form the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways railway network in the Harz mountain range of Germany. It runs from the station of Drei Annen Hohne at , where it joins the Harz Railway, via Schierke and the Bode River valley to the summit of the Brocken the highest mountain of the Harz at and part of the Harz National Park. Route The Brocken Railway leaves Drei Annen Hohne station (), like the Harz Railway, in a southwesterly direction. As it leaves the station, however, it crosses the road to Schierke/Elend and then enters the Harz National Park. It then heads west to Schierke station (688 m), where until 1963, there was a siding to Knaupsholz granite quarry at about the half-way point. The line then runs for some distance along the valley of the Cold Bode, which lies south and far below the line. Next the 971 m high mountain, the Wurmber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wormke
The Wormke is a river of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, in the Harz Mountains. It is a left tributary of the Kalte Bode, about long. Course The Wormke rises north of Schierke above the ''Jakobsbruch'' at about above sea level in the Harz National Park and flows initially eastwards. After turning towards the southeast, it crosses the ''Glashüttenweg'' footpath on the Harzer Hexenstieg trail, where a weir diverts almost all its water into the Wormsgraben ditch. Next the Wormke is crossed by the tracks of the Brocken Railway, the Hagenstraße (L 100) road, on an embankment, and the tracks of the Harz Railway. Near (a part of Elend) the river finally discharges into the Kalte Bode. In its lower reaches was once a pond, the {{ill, Mandelhölzer Teich, de (Wormke Reservoir), until the dam broke on 22 July 1855. See also *List of rivers of Saxony-Anhalt A list of rivers of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany: A * Aland * Aller * Allerbach, tributary of the Rappbode (Rappbode Auxiliary Dam) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elend (Harz)
Elend is a district of the town of Oberharz am Brocken in the Harz District, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It lies in the Bode valley in the High Harz in central Germany, at a height of . This part of the valley is known locally as ''Elendstal''. Elend is located near the former Inner German Border between West and East Germany. Geography About 3 kilometres west of the village is the nature reserve of Kramershai. Climate History Walther Grosse mentions fields ''under the Elend Road'' (''unter dem elendischen Wege'') for the first time in a manuscript of field names in the ''Amt'' of Elbingerode for 1483. In a ''Vogtei'' account for the ''Amt'' of Elbingerode (Harz) dated 1506/07 there is an entry which states: ''"Income from the sawmill at Elend in the Forest XII March"'' (''Innome von der Sagemoln zum Elende deß Forst XII Mar '). Landeshauptarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt, Abteilung Magdeburg, Rep. H Stolberg-Wernigerode, H.A. A 33 Fach 1-5 No. 2, Sheet 12r There are a lot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalte Bode
The Kalte Bode is the left-hand headstream of the Bode in the High Harz Mountains in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is long. Name The names of the Warme and Kalte Bode ("Warm" and "Cold" Bode) come from their actual temperature difference of about 2 °C. Course The Kalte Bode rises in the Upper Harz at the foot of its highest mountain, the legendary Brocken, in the southern part of the so-called ''Brockenfeld'', on the border with Lower Saxony, north of Braunlage. Immediately nearby are the sources of the Warme Bode, the Ecker and the Oder. The Kalte Bode flow initially eastwards to Schierke, along the northern slopes of the Wurmberg. In Schierke it changes direction and heads south. In the ''Elendstal'', a wild and romantic valley between Schierke and Elend, the Kalte Bode has to carry the huge quantities of water that run into this short section of river in spring. A few kilometres beyond Elend it is impounded in the Mandelholz retention basin, before being uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundesstraße 27
Bundesstraße 27 or B27 is a German federal road. It connects Blankenburg am Harz with Rafz in Switzerland. Route The Bundesstraße 27 crosses the following states and towns (north to south): * Saxony-Anhalt: Blankenburg am Harz * Lower Saxony: Braunlage, Göttingen * Hesse: Sontra, Bad Hersfeld, Fulda * Bavaria: Hammelburg, Würzburg * Baden-Württemberg: Tauberbischofsheim, Heilbronn, Ludwigsburg, Stuttgart, Tübingen, Rottweil, Donaueschingen, Jestetten The B27 is interrupted in two places: between Würzburg and Tauberbischofsheim, where it has been replaced by the motorways A3 and A81, and between Randen and Jestetten, where it crosses through Switzerland. The part south of Stuttgart follows the ''Schweizer Straße'' (Suisse road), a chaussee from 18th century. D ST Rübeland HVLE 285001 Sz 20080511.jpg, in the Harz mountains Stuttgart-pragsatteltunnel-2006-06-05-bigcat.jpg, interchange with B 10 in Stuttgart B27 Tübingen.jpg, in the Neckar valley See also *List ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walkenried–Braunlage/Tanne Railway
The South Harz Railway Company (german: Südharz-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) or SHE was founded in 1897 and, on 15 August 1899, opened a 24 km long, winding and hilly, metre gauge railway from Walkenried via Wieda and Brunnenbachsmühle to Braunlage in the Harz Mountains of central Germany. On 1 November 1899 a 3 km extension for goods trains was opened to the Wurmberg mountain. From 24 August 1899 an 8 km line branched off in Brunnenbachsmühle that ran through Sorge to Tanne. It provided a link with the Harz Railway operated by the Nordhausen-Wernigerode Railway Company The Nordhausen-Wernigerode Railway Company (''Nordhausen-Wernigeroder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'') or ''NWE'' was the second railway company to be founded in the Harz mountains in Germany, after the Gernrode-Harzgerode Railway Company (''Gernroder-H ... and the Harz line run by the Halberstadt-Blankenburg Railway. This branch was cut in 1945 by the border zone and services were interrupted. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundesstraße 242
The B 242 is a federal highway (german: Bundesstraße) in Germany. It runs from Seesen to Mansfeld. Route The B 242, also known as the Harz High Road (''Harzhochstraße''), runs right across the Harz mountains in central Germany. From Seesen on the northwestern edge of the Harz near the A 7 motorway it runs through the Upper Harz past Clausthal-Zellerfeld, the High Harz, where it is combined for several kilometres with the B 4, past Braunlage and then through the eastern Harz foothills into Mansfelder Land. There it joins the B 180 east of Klostermansfeld. An extension of the B 242 via Polleben and Salzmünde to Halle (Saale) is being planned. Rivers crossed * Innerste * Oderteich * Warme Bode, near Sorge * Hassel between Hasselfelde and Stiege * Selke near Alexisbad * Wipper in Mansfeld Photographs See also * List of federal roads in Germany {{DEFAULTSORT:Bundesstrasse 242 242 Year 242 (Roman numerals, CCXLII) was a common year starting on Satur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warme Bode
The Warme Bode is the right-hand headstream of the Bode in the High Harz mountains of central Germany in the states of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. It is long and is formed by the confluence of the Große Bode and Kleine Bode rivers. Name The names of the Warme and Kalte Bode ('Warm' and 'Cold' Bode) come from their actual temperature difference of about 2 °C. Headstreams Große Bode The ''Große Bode'' ('Great Bode') is the left-hand headstream of the Warme Bode and is about long. Its source is at the foot of the highest mountain in the Harz, the Brocken, in the southern part of the so-called ''Brockenfeld'' on the border of Saxony-Anhalt. Immediately nearby are the sources of the Kalte Bode, the Ecker and the Oder. The Große Bode flows mainly southwards, on the western slopes of the Wurmberg towards Braunlage. Its course is characterised by little waterfalls and steps (''Fallstufen'') including the ''Oberer Bodefall''. In front of Braunlage it is united with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorge, Saxony-Anhalt
Sorge is a village and a former municipality in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the town Oberharz am Brocken Oberharz am Brocken () is a town in the Harz District, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was formed on 1 January 2010 by the merger of the town of Elbingerode with the municipalities of the former ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' ("collective municipal .... The name of the town means "Worry" in German. Former municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt Oberharz am Brocken Villages in the Harz {{Harz-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benneckenstein
Benneckenstein () is a town in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it has been part of the town of Oberharz am Brocken. Benneckenstein is in the eastern Harz, 14 km southeast of Braunlage, and 24 km south of Wernigerode. Location Benneckenstein lies in the Lower Harz within the Harz/Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park. It is located between the villages of Tanne to the north, Trautenstein to the east-northeast and Stiege to the east (all in Saxony-Anhalt), Rothesütte to the south (in Thuringia), Hohegeiß to the west (in Lower Saxony) and Sorge to the north-northwest (in Saxony-Anhalt). The village lies at a height of about 500 to on the upper reaches of the Rappbode. Following the former Inner German Border to the west is the border with Lower Saxony and to the south that with Thuringia; about 3.3 km south-southwest of the village is the tripoint for the three states which is marked by the ''Drei-Länder-Stein''. The organist, co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
