Dreieckiger Pfahl
The Triangular pile is a historic, about 1.35 m high landmark granite southwest of the Brocken in the Harz National Park. The set before 1866 stone marked the border between the Kingdom of Hanover and the Duchy of Brunswick. Originally this place marked a triangle. During the division of Germany here, the border between the GDR and the FRG. Today it is the boundary between Saxony -Anhalt and Lower Saxony, where the Triangular pile was very close to Lower Saxony side and also in the Cold War ( from the west ) was accessible.
The historic stone is at about 870 m height approximately 2.5 km east of a parking lot on the main road between 4 and peat house Oderbrück.
The first documentary mention of a set here landmark dates back to 1727th on a map of the upper Forst Brown situation is the statement " drey Eckjer pile anno 1698 ". For a description of the Harzburg scouring the original stone is described as follows:
" Such stake even after Communion side to the left hand with # 1 and a Wolf Angel, after Braunlagischer page with drey bats and Elbingeroder on page # 1 and a cross ingleichen with the year 1698 and has set it got its name. "
The demarcation was later replaced regularly. 1736 a wooden stake and 1791 a stone was set. 1844 was followed by a version in oak.
The still existing triangular stone was set before 1866. He wears the number 1 and on a north-easterly and south-westerly side of the letters KH for the Kingdom of Hanover and on the southeast side of the letters HB for the duchy of Brunswick. The original triangular design has been retained.
1894 was directly planned a railway station on the Triangular pile. Engineer Louis Degen, the plans for running on Braunschweigisches area Harzbahn of Walkenried over Wieda to brown situation ( later narrow gauge railway Walkenried-Braunlage/Tanne ) had worked out, saw a continuation of the line to the northernmost point of this Brunswick part of the country - the district of Blankenburg - before.
Previously, in 1892, requested the creation of several municipalities in the western Harz a route that branched off on Triangular pile by the driveway peat house / Oderbrück to Schierke and led to Brockenstraße, been rejected by the Princely Stolberg- Wernigerödischen chamber.
The station should be equipped with a Umsetzgleis. The railway was built, however, only to brown situation. A railway track led up to the north Brown Lages for granite quarry at mountain worm. The Triangular pile them but did not reach.
Until 1945, there was the Triangular pile a small economy, which was mainly attended by Brocken- hikers. The building was burned by American troops in April 1945, since that time still SS and Wehrmacht soldiers and HJ were hiding in the huts of the area. The restaurant was not rebuilt. Today it is here near the Triangular pile a stopping place for hikers and mountain bikers. In addition, the post is included as No. 168 in the system of stamp locations of the Harz hiking pin; the stamp box hangs in a standing near the pile refuge.