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Innerste Waterfall near Clausthal-Zellerfeld

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    June 7, 2024

    The Innerste rises at 605 m above sea level near Clausthal-Zellerfeld, above the Entensumpf pond. On its way it flows through several ponds of the Upper Harz water system, through the Innerste Dam near Langelsheim, meanders through Hildesheim and finally flows into the Leine near Sarstedt after about 97 km.

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      May 23, 2018

      Innermost rivulet to the leash ...

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        March 18, 2025

        In the Harz Mountains, there are numerous places with almost untouched nature, where wild and rushing streams with clean water make their way down between rugged rocks. The river in the Harz that is furthest from this idyll is probably the Innerste. Almost nothing of the sketched image of this body of water is true of this body of water.

        The source of the Innerste, the "Innerste Spring," is located southeast of Clausthal-Zellerfeld near Federal Highway 242 at an altitude of approximately 610 meters above sea level.

        When the Innerste reaches the town of Buntenbock after a three-kilometer course, its waters have already been blocked from flowing freely by the Entensumpf (entrap marsh) in the Oberer Nassenwieser Teich (upper wetland pond), the Bärenbrucher Teich (barn brook), the Ziegenberger Teich (ziedenberg pond), and the Großer Sumpfteich (large swamp pond). Numerous tributaries have also transformed what was initially a small mountain stream into a substantial river.

        Beyond Buntenbock lies the Prinzenteich, the largest dam on the river's relatively short route from its source to here. When the water of the Innerste leaves this historic dam, it is anything but wild due to the many regulations, but at least it is still clean. But that, too, is changing.

        In the section of the Innerste Valley below the Prinzenteich, during the mining era, one stamp mill followed the next, flanked by countless smelters for further processing the crushed ore. All of these subsequent mining operations harnessed the hydropower of the tamed Innerste River and its tributaries. The waste produced during silver mining in the form of slag, crushed sand, and sludge was stored close to the river and unprotected, in the immediate vicinity of the workshops. These heavy metal-rich dumps remain largely there to this day.

        After passing through the two old mining towns of Wildemann and Lautenthal, the Innerste River is once again held back and dammed by the large Innerste Dam, built in the 1960s. At 750 meters long, the dam wall of the Innerste Dam is the longest of all the dams in the Harz Mountains. About three kilometers below this dam wall, the Innerste River flows through Langelsheim, leaving the Harz Mountains to the north.
        Source: harzlife.de/info/innerste.html

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          Location: Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Goslar, Harz Mountains, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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