Molkenhaus (Bad Harzburg)

The whey house in the Harz mountain range, near Bad Harzburg in Lower Saxony district of Goslar is a built as a wooden house in the 1822 barn, which currently serves as a tourist restaurant.

Geographical location

The whey house is located in the Upper Harz Harz National Park. It is approximately 3 km south-southeast of the main town of Bad Harzburg and about 1 km to the east of the city on winter mountain Rudolf cliff on the alluvial plain traversed by the Ecker- inflow Big Hasselbach Hassel pond to approximately 524 m above sea level. NN. About 2 km south-southeast extends to the border with Saxony -Anhalt Ecker reservoir.

History

The first Molkenhaus made ​​in 1665 the bailiff Johann Heinrich von Uslar on the eastern slope of the mountain rope, near the Fuhlelohnbach, build. After this had been abandoned in 1822, the second whey house was built on Hassel pond. Both houses once served to milk the cattle near by mountain pastures, without it to drive in the distant farms. They were in possession of the manor Bündheim -Bad Harzburg. Since the mid-20th century, the Molkenhaus developed to an inn, and it is also currently used with several buildings as tourist restaurant; a place for wildlife feeding, can be observed in the wild is affiliated.

Hiking

The whey house is included as No. 169 in the system of stamp locations of the Harz hiking pin. This site is not to be confused with the punch body No. 23 at 7.9 km (air line ) southeast lying in Saxony -Anhalt Molkenhaus star.