Königshütte (Harz)
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Königshütte (Harz)
City of Oberharz am Brocken
Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ N , 10 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ E
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| Residents : | 600 (2011) |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 2004 |
| Incorporated into: | Elbingerode (Harz) |
| Postal code : | 38875 |
  Location of Königshütte (Harz) in Oberharz am Brocken
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 Königshütte from the ruins of Königsburg
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Königshütte (Harz) is a district of the town of Oberharz am Brocken in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt . Around 600 people live in the village (2011).
Geographical location
Königshütte is located on federal highway 27 in the Harz Mountains , from which a country road branches off to Tanne (Harz) in the center of the village . Immediately below the village under the ruins of Königsburg , the cold and warm Bode flow together and form the Bode , which first flows into the Königshütte dam and on to Rübeland .
Königshütte is one of the stops on the Harz Hexenstieg . This leads u. a. past the former location of the Trogfurther bridge .
history
The once independent place was created by merging the Königshof and Rothehütte on April 1, 1936. Rothehütte was particularly known as the location of several ironworks, such as the Neue Hütte and von Lüdershof .
Königshütte had a railway connection to Blankenburg (Harz) . After initially only passenger traffic on the electrified Elbingerode – Königshütte section was discontinued on May 30, 1999, the section to Königshütte was finally closed on August 31, 2000.
The previously independent municipality was incorporated into the city of Elbingerode (Harz) on January 1, 2004 . With the dissolution of the city of Elbingerode (Harz) and the establishment of the city of Oberharz am Brocken on January 1, 2010, Königshütte became a district of the city of Oberharz am Brocken.
Attractions
- Home parlor
- Koenigshütte waterfall
- Bockberg nature reserve
- Königshütte dam
- Almond wood dam
- Königsburg ruin
- Ruins of the Andreas Church on a hiking trail towards Elbingerode
- Ackertklippe with a view to the Brocken
Memorials
- Memorial to the forest scientist Wilhelm Pfeil
- Tombs on the local cemetery for two Soviet and one Dutch person who during the Second World War deported to Germany and victims of forced labor were
- War memorial for the fallen soldiers of both world wars
Personalities
- Friedrich Carl Ludwig Koch (1799–1852), entrepreneur
Individual evidence
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Localities and districts: City of Benneckenstein (Harz) | City of Elbingerode (Harz) | Misery | City of Hasselfelde (with Rotacker ) | Königshütte (Harz) | Rübeland cave site (with Neuwerk and Susenburg ) | Concern | Stairs | Fir tree | Trautenstein
Other locations: Büchenberg and Eggeröder Brunnen (to the city of Elbingerode) | Almond wood and Wietfeld (on misery) | Lüdershof and Neue Hütte (to Königshütte) | Kaltes Tal and Kreuztal (to Rübeland caves)