Teufelsbäder

51.70850310.278686Koordinaten: 51 ° 42 ' 31 " N, 10 ° 16' 43 " O

As devil baths is called a moorland near Osterode am Harz. It is located in the eponymous nature reserve southeast of Augustental on the B 243

Description

The ponds and swampy valleys in about 84 acres of nature reserve are the Devil's Hole, a karst spring in the high forest, fed. They are the remains of an intensive Ablaugung the Werra- Anhydrites and representative part of the gypsum karst landscape of the southern Harz. The Large and Small Teufelsbad are caused by dams and today verlandende fishing waters. The drain empties after a few meters in the Apenke.

1980 drilled the Lower Saxony State Office for Soil Science 145 meters in the below the anhydrite karst cavities. On the hole a steel tube was mounted, flowed out of the roughly 1.5 liters of karst water per second. With the help of contrast water testing they tried to determine the origin of the water without success.

The 1984 is a nature reserve is the habitat of rare species of plants and breeding area for many bird species bound to these structures. Leading by the devil baths Karstwanderweg must not be abandoned.