The water management for operating the mines in Clausthal-Zellerfeld is a Unesco World Heritage Site and can be explored ideally on this short tour.

According to Unesco, the Upper Harz water shelf is considered to be “the world's most important pre-industrial water management system in mining.” Since the 16th century, water for generating energy has been collected in large parts of the Upper Harz using sophisticated hydraulic techniques, and stored… read more

Thank you for the interesting contribution to the Upper Harz water shelf and engineering from the 16th century.

Interesting area, you make us curious. Your amounts are exemplary.

Thank you for the insights: beautiful area, engineering, your thoughts. 🤗

I liked to take a look at it here and I remember it for my own explorations. With old railway lines I also thought like this: It was built without completely redesigning the landscape.

Manfred & Anni write what I also think.

Thanks Horst, Manfred & Anni and Jens - you do what you can 😊😉😅.

One should not underestimate the remodeling, which sometimes happened on a large scale for the construction of the moats and ponds, individual moats were led on artificial dams. But it just grew in over time, also because the routes are… read more

Yes cool! I used to go jogging for a while! 😁👍

Well Klaus, for some it is an "exotic" travel destination, for others it is a round trip. 😉 I can very well imagine that as a running lap there.

Yes, a very beautiful area!

I was also at the Polsterberger Hubhaus at least once (eating trout) 😁