Huttaler Widerwaage

The Huttaler Widerwaage is a small reservoir that is a part of the Upper Harz Water Regale, an old mining water management system in the Harz Mountains of Germany that is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The reservoir lies east of the mining town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld.

This particular basin is impounded by a small wooden weir structure, a so-called Fehlschlag.

It is linked by the Huttal Water Tunnel (Huttaler Wasserlauf) with the Hirschler Teich on the other side of the ridge and is designed so that the two reservoirs act as a communicating vessels.

There it was used to supply hydropower for the very productive Caroline and Dorothea Pits.

Huttaler Widerwaage and mouth of the Huttal Water Tunnel
Plan of the Huttaler Widerwaage and the structures linked to it