Since 1 January 2004 Königshütte has been a village in the borough of Oberharz am Brocken

Oberharz am Brocken

Oberharz am Brocken is a town in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was formed on 1 January 2010 by the merger of the former municipalities:Benneckenstein,Elbingerode,Elend,Hasselfelde,Königshütte,Rübeland,Sorge,Stiege,Tanne,...

 in the district of Harz in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt

Saxony-Anhalt

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Location

Königshütte lies on the B 27 federal road in the Harz mountains; a state road branching off to Tanne (Harz) in the centre of the village. Immediately below the settlement under the ruins of Königsburg castle is the confluence of the Kalte Bode

Kalte Bode

The Kalte Bode is the left-hand headstream of the River Bode in the High Harz Mountains in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is long.-Name:...

 and Warme Bode

Warme Bode

The Warme Bode is the right-hand headstream of the River Bode in the High Harz mountains of central Germany in the states of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt...

, which unite here to form the River Bode

Bode

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, which initially flows into the Königshütte Reservoir and then on towards Rübeland

Rübeland

Rübeland is a village in the collective municipality of Elbingerode in the district of Harz in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt and, since 2004, has been given the additional description of Höhlenort...

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Königshütte is one of the waypoints on the Harzer Hexenstieg

Harzer Hexenstieg

The Harzer Hexenstieg is a footpath, just under 100 km long, in Germany that runs from Osterode through the Harz mountains and over its highest peak, the Brocken, to Thale...

 which runs past the site of the old Trogfurth Bridge

Trogfurth Bridge

The great Trogfurth Bridge was a historic cultural monument in the Harz Mountains of Germany that was blown up by the SS on 14 April 1945. The bridge over the River Bode, which was made of rubble stone, had been built in 1739/40 at the site of a ford - first mentioned in 919 - on the Königsstieg...

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History

The once independent village emerged from the merger of Königshof and Rothehütte on 1 April 1936. Rothehütte was particularly known for being the home of several iron works such as the Neue Hütte and the Lüdershof.

Königshütte used to have a railway connexion to Blankenburg (Harz), but passenger services were withdrawn on the electrified section from Elbingerode–Königshütte on 30 May 1999 and the line was closed completely on 31 August 2000.

Places of interest

• Heimatstube
• Königshütte Waterfall
• Bockberg
  Bockberg
  The Bockberg is a hill, , near Königshütte in Harz district in the Harz mountains of central Germany. Since 1967 the hill and its surrounding area have been protected as a nature reserve....
  
   nature reserve
• Königshütte Reservoir
  Königshütte Dam
  The Königshütte Dam is a dam in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt in the Harz mountains. It impounds the River Bode and lies between Königshütte and Susenburg...
  
  
• Mandelholz Reservoir
• Königsburg ruins
• Ruins of St Andrew's Church on a footpath towards Elbingerode
• The Ackertklippe
  Ackertklippe
  The Ackertklippe is a rock formation in Königshütte in the district of Harz in the Harz mountains of Germany. It is composed mainly of granite. A nearby road is named after the crag....
  
  crag with views to the Brocken

Memorials

• Memorial to the forestry scientist, Wilhelm Pfeil
• Graves in village cemetery (Ortsfriedhof) of two Soviet and one Dutch
  Dutch people
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   people, who were abducted during the Second World War, taken to Germany and were victims of forced labour.