Gernrode-Harzgerode Railway Company

After the experience of the Felda Railway in Thuringia it was decided on cost grounds that a concession would be granted in March 1887 for a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge line from Gernrode to Harzgerode and Silberhütte.

In April 1946, all tracks were dismantled as war reparation payments to the Soviet Union, with the exceptions of the lines from Eisfelder Talmühle via Stiege to Hasselfelde and from Straßberg to the Flussspat mineshaft.

It was completed in July 1949, but the GHE did not live to see it; on 1 April that year the line and its installations were transferred to the management of Deutsche Reichsbahn.

The GHE initially opened their first bus routes with the involvement of the East Harz Transport (Ostharzbahnen GmbH) on 24 February 1925.

During the Second World War the GHE had to give up several buses and lorries that had been procured for the transportation of express goods, so that their motorised services had to be almost entirely withdrawn.