Bärenbrucher Teich

It belongs to the Upper Harz Ponds, that were originally laid out to supply water power for the Upper Harz mines.

Its retaining capacity is 186,000 m³ and its barrage is around 7 metres high.

The water of the Bärenbrucher Teich can be channelled along the Bärenbruch Ditch (Bärenbrucher Wasserlauf), laid in 1948, through a sequence of six water tunnels and intermediate ditches to the Rosenhof, where it was used to supply power to the Rosenhof Pit and, later, the Ottiliae Shaft Power Station.

Today the Bärenbrucher Teich is normally operated as a spillway basin, that is, the bottom outlets are closed and water simply flows over the spillway into the Ziegenberger Teich.

137) in the refuge hut at the eastern end of the dam.