Triangular post
The triangular pole is a historical, about 1.35 m high landmark from granite southwest of the chunk in the National Park resin. The stone set before 1866 marked the border between the Kingdom of Hanover and the Duchy of Braunschweig . Originally this point marked a triangle of three countries . During the division of Germany , the border between the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany ran here . Today the border between Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony runs here, whereby the triangular post is just on the Lower Saxony side and was also accessible during the Cold War (from the west).
The historic stone stands at about 870 m above sea level, around 2.5 km east of the "Soldiers Cemetery" car park and the Oderbrück cemetery of honor , on federal road 4 between Torfhaus and Oderbrück .
The first written mention of a boundary stone placed here dates from the year 1727. On a map of the Oberforst Braunlage there is the note “Drey Eckjer Pfahl anno 1698”. From a description of the Harzburg forests , the original stone is described as follows:
"Such a stake is also placed on the left hand side after Communion with No. 1 and a wolf tang, on the Braunlagischer side with three blows and on the Elbingeroder side with No. 1 and a cross identical with the year 1698 and has received his name."
The border marking was later regularly renewed. A wooden post was set in 1736 and a stone in 1791. In 1844 it was made of oak.
The triangular stone that still exists today was set before 1866. It bears the number 1 and on the northeast and southwest side the letters KH for Kingdom of Hanover and on the southeast side the letters HB for Duchy of Braunschweig. The original triangular design was retained.
In 1894 a train station was planned directly at the triangular pile. Engineer Louis Degen, who had drawn up plans for a Harz Railway from Walkenried via Wieda to Braunlage (later the Walkenried – Braunlage / Tanne narrow-gauge railway ), planned to continue the route to the northernmost point of this part of Brunswick - the district of Blankenburg.
Previously, in 1892, the creation of a driveway, requested by several communities in the western Harz, which branched off at the triangular pile from the Torfhaus / Oderbrück road to Schierke and was supposed to lead to Brockenstraße , had been rejected by the Princely Stolberg-Wernigerödische Kammer.
The station should be equipped with a transfer track. However, the railway was only built as far as Braunlage. A freight track led to the granite quarry on Wurmberg in the north of Braunlage . But she did not reach the triangular stake.
Until 1945 there was a small inn on the triangular pile, which was mainly visited by Brocken hikers. The building was burned down by American troops in April 1945, because at that time SS and Wehrmacht soldiers as well as HJ were hiding in the huts in this area. The restaurant was not rebuilt.
Today there is a crossroads for hikers and mountain bikers near the triangular post . In a southerly direction there is a path to the Wurmberg both on the Lower Saxony side and along the Kolonnenweg on the Saxony-Anhalt side . In a northerly direction it also goes along the Kolonnenweg to the Brocken . To the east you get to Schierke via Sandbrinkstraße and to the west there is a path to Oderbrück and the Ehrenfriedhof bus stop on Bundesstraße 4 , from where the triangular pile is easiest to reach. At the triangular pile there is a rest area on the Lower Saxony side and on the Saxony-Anhalt side there is a refuge with the stamp number 168 of the Harz hiking pin .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harzer Wanderadel: stamp point 168 / triangular post , on harzer-wandernadel.de
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 54.8 " N , 10 ° 34 ′ 43.2" E