Windenhütte Hunting Lodge

The hunting lodge Wind hut in resin is an early for the purpose of hunting, now a hotel and tourist restaurant building used in Altenbrak in the district of Harz, Saxony -Anhalt.

Geographical Location

The hunting lodge is located in the Lower Harz Harz nature park / Saxony- Anhalt. It stands in the forest between Altenbrak ( Thale ) in the north, Treseburg ( Thale ) in the Northeast, Allrode ( Thale ) in the southeast and the core city of Hasselfelde ( to Upper am Brocken ) in West southwest. The building stands at the northern edge of the block house on meadow about 452 m above sea level. NN. North of the meadow rises a small stream that flows past the west wind hut and belongs to the catchment area of the near Luppbode.

You can reach the hunting lodge, for example on the 1351 district road that branches off from the main road 81 between Wendefurth at the dam Wendefurth and Hasselfelde to the southeast. From this road you turn the Hinweisschild51.69610.905166666667 hunting lodge Wind hut on a forest road from, and from then on, follow other signs.

History

1872 Duke William of Brunswick in his forest area in the then district of Blankenburg a wooden hunting lodge on the edge of a wild meadow in the hallway To build the winds, which received the name Wind hut. About 50 yards away was the Prince Regent Duke Johann Albrecht of Mecklenburg in the years 1906 to 1908 the ducal hunting lodge Wind hut built of massive stones. Since 1993, the hunting lodge is a public restaurant and hotel.

The wind shelter is included as No. 59 in the system of stamp locations of the Harz hiking pin.