Silver man
Silver Man is a rock in the Holtemme valley southwest of the Hasserode district of Wernigerode in the Harz Mountains . The rock stands directly in the quartz vein zone of the Hasseröder vein area and has sulphide mineralization.
The Silver Man is located about 600 meters from the Steinerne Renne station on the Harzquerbahn . Due to its easy accessibility by public transport, the Silver Man was a popular destination in the 19th century for summer visitors on the way to the Steinerne Renne and the Brocken . Around 1890, Count Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode granted the concession to build a restaurant below the rock. At the beginning of the 20th century, the simple shelter was transformed into a typical Harz half-timbered house with a hall in which the excursion restaurant was operated. After its operations had ceased during the GDR era around 1985 and the last tenant had left the house, the building increasingly fell into ruin in the mid-1990s and collapsed.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 48 '50.9 " N , 10 ° 43' 5.1" E