Sachsenbrunnen

Sachsenbrunnen
Sachsenbrunnen
location
Country or region	District of Goslar ( Lower Saxony )
Coordinates	51 ° 52 ′ 7 "  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 43"  E
Sachsenbrunnen Location of the source
geology
Mountains	resin
Hydrology
River system	Weser
Receiving waters	Stübchenbach → Radau → Oker → Aller → Weser → North Sea

Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 7 "  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 43"  E

The Sachsenbrunnen in the Harz Mountains is a contained water source near the Säperstelle near Bad Harzburg in the Goslar district in Lower Saxony .

Geographical location

The Sachsenbrunnen is located in the Upper Harz on the border of the Harz Nature Park in the west and the Harz National Park in the east. About 1.6 km (as the crow flies ) south of the spa town of Bad Harzburg, it is in the forest at a crossroads on Kaiserweg ( 491.8  m above sea  level ), which is south-east below the nearby summit of the Sachsenberg (about  546  m above sea level ). lies.

History

In the Middle Ages and early modern times, drinking water from the Sachsenbrunnen was conducted through numerous clay pipes to the Harzburg , which is about 800 m (as the crow flies) northwest of the crossroads at the Säperstelle.

hike

Until 2016, stamping point 121 of the Harz hiking pin was located near the Sachsenbrunnen at the Bernhard Everling Hut . From the crossroads there you can hike, for example, to the Großer Burgberg with the Harzburg , to the Brocken , to the Eckertalsperre , to the Rabenklippe with the lynx enclosure, to the Cross of the German East , to the Scharfenstein or to Torfhaus .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
2. ↑ Harzer Wandernadel : Changed stamp locations since April 16 , 2016 , on harzer-wandernadel.de