On 18 April 1945 the pattern house (Modellhaus) of the factory fell victim to the fighting at the end of the Second World War.

The economic changes after German reunification in 1990 meant that the factory was only able to sustain the production of a small quantity of gas cookers in the years that followed.

The village's name comes from a legend, the Mägdesprung about a maid ("Magd") who leapt the Selke valley (Sprung = "jump") and which was recounted by the Brothers Grimm and Ludwig Bechstein.

The renovated pilgrim's chapel in the cemetery at IIIrd Friedrichshammer, the deer sculptures, the obelisk and the Mägdetrappe with its splendid view over the Selke valley and across to the heights of the Viktorshöhe are other places of interest.

The village lies on the B 185 federal road and has a bus stop on the Q-Bus Nahverkehrsgesellschaft network as well as a station on the Selke Valley Railway between Gernrode and Alexisbad.