[1] It has an area of about 1.3 ha[2] and lies in the forested southern part of the borough of Quedlinburg in the county of Harz in Saxony-Anhalt.

Between Friedrichsbrunn (Thale), Alexisbad and Mägdesprung (both in the municipality of Harzgerode) it is located in woods 6.75 km (as the crow flies) southwest of Bad Suderode (Quedlinburg) immediately north of the town boundary of Quedlinburg with Harzgerode around 1.5 km southwest of the Viktorshöhe (581.5 m above sea level (NN)) at an elevation of 500.3 m above NN.

[3] The pond is fed and drained, like the Erichsburger Teich 400 stream metres to the south-southeast, by the Friedenstalbach to the southeast that flows into the River Selke.

Near the pond lies an abandoned, heavily overgrown quarry, in which the Zweiglimmer granite of the Upper Carboniferous of the Ramberg massif may be seen at the surface with its well-developed weathering zones.

190[1] in the system of checkpoints in the Harzer Wandernadel hiking network; the box with the stamp is located east of the dam.