Brunnenbach Mill
The Brunnenbachsmühle is a youth forest home of the Harz National Park , in the area of the city of Braunlage . In addition, the old station building was given an extension with overnight rooms.
history
Beginning as a mill
The name "Brunnenbachsmühle" goes back to an old mill on the Brunnenbach, which also served as a stop for strangers. The mill was destroyed when a dam broke in the Andreasberg reservoir above the Brunnenbach (now the Silberteich ). Its ruins were torn down in the 19th century after it was acquired by the Duchy of Braunschweig .
Use as a station building
The station of the same name of the Südharz-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (SHE) was opened in 1899 on the site of the former mill. In Brunnenbachsmühle, the narrow-gauge railway Walkenried – Braunlage / Tanne operated by the SHE divided into branches to Tanne and Braunlage.
The station had a large reception building that burned down in 1901 and was replaced in the same year by the new building that still exists today. There were two main tracks, a transfer track and a loading track with a side loading ramp. There were also several sheds and a water supply for the locomotives, fed from the stream west of the station. Not far from the train station in the direction of Sorge , a Grauwacke quarry was put into operation on the northern side of the valley in April 1909 (today a campground), which was connected to a railroad.
Since Sorge and Tanne were in the Soviet occupation zone , but the rest of the SHE was in the west, traffic there was stopped in 1945. The tracks were dismantled in the 1950s. In September 1962, passenger traffic between Braunlage and Walkenried ended. A year later, freight traffic also ended and the railway line was dismantled. The station restaurant located in the station building, which Braunlager spa guests also liked to visit as an excursion restaurant, remained open for a few years. A special attraction of the restaurant often advertised in the Braunlager newspaper was the screaming of the deer during the rutting season. The Brunnenbachsmühle has served as an educational facility under the name Jugendwaldheim since 1967. In 2003 the national park administration took over the direction. 8 employees are currently employed here.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 59 ″ N , 10 ° 37 ′ 11 ″ E