Steinerne Renne

The Stone Renne is a natural monument proven, canyon -like and about 2.5 km long section of the valley of the Holtemme at Hasserode in the Harz in the district of Harz, Saxony -Anhalt. A lying near railway station on the resin transverse or Brockenbahn between Wernigerode and Drei Annen Hohne also bears this name.

Geographical Location

The Stone Run is located east of the Harz National Park, the Harz nature park / Saxony- Anhalt. It extends southwest of Wernigerode district Hasserode in a wooded section of the valley at the headwaters of the Holtemme between the racing Eckeberg somewhat distant (eastern neighbor of the chunks ) about to the southwest, between the Bielenstein (about 525 m above sea level. NN ) in the north and the ridge Hippeln with the Kontor mountain ( 556.1 m) in the south.

In the gorge, numerous small waterfalls and rapids Holtemme change in their granite outcrops and rock interspersed with calmer sections of the river riverbed from. The entrance to the gorge located below the Hannekenbruchs lies at about 550 m above sea level. NN output and the gorge below the railway station Stony Run to around 300 m above sea level. NN, which results in about 250 m height difference. In the Stone Renne left hand leads to 395 m altitude, the Small Renne.

In the gorge is above a 519.5 m high flow point, the forest guest house and hotel Stone Run. In addition, once stood in the ravine just east of a road bridge leading over the Holtemme ( 346 m) below the cliff Silver man's Restaurant At The Silver formers man.

History and Hiking

When Stein Renne or stone trough this natural spectacle was called in the early modern period. With the advent of tourism in the mid-19th century, the stone Renne became one of the most visited beauty of the resin. During construction of the resin cross and Brockenbahn the Stone Run station was created. Immediately at the waterfall was created in 1869 initially a wooden log house, the forerunner of today's forest guest house and hotel Stone Run.

At the time of the GDR, the present hotel building was used until the mid- 1970s as HO- restaurant and after conversion then as company holidays home the Combine VEB Elektro-Apparate -Werke Berlin -Treptow " Friedrich Ebert " with a public restaurant. During the renovation of the building was a septic tank, the system also the path to the restaurant, the past led directly to the north side of Holtemme at the waterfall, impassable. Now the trail leads along the southern shore. The forest guest house and hotel Stone Run is now included as # 28 in the system of stamp locations of the Harz hiking pin. The canyon can be traversed entirely.

Hydroelectric power plant Stony Run

Near the gorge output stands beside the Stone Run Station, commissioned in 1899 hydroelectric power plant Stony Run, which was used to power the then established gravel and granite work. It was 1943, in the possession of the town of Wernigerode, who used it for the power supply of the district Hasserode. From 1945 it was the VEB Kombinat energy Magdeburg, and later operated the VEB repair operation for batteries and material handling equipment. After its privatization as Werbat GmbH, the power plant in 1995 was sold to a private owner. In 2002 it was again sold back to the city, which operates it as a technical monument.

The water is directed in the forest from the small pool of a weir below the inn Stone Run over a 1.7 km long, closed channel to the screen house, where floating debris is screened. Behind the channel end it falls by an approximately 160 m long penstock from the power plant. It annually about one million kilowatt-hours of electric power be with two Pelton turbines, one of which dates from the time it was built, is generated.

Sub-camp

On the grounds of the former granite and gravel plant, which was used as a brickworks Stone Run and for the construction of parts for aircraft engines since 1944, resulted in a concentration camp Mittelbau- Dora, subordinate to the central warehouse, where initially French, Belgian and Italian forced laborers, then 500 detainees from the previous concentration sub- command in Wernigerode were used on Veckenstedter way, who were sent on a death march to Leitmeritz by American troops on April 10, 1945, the day before the occupation of the camp.