Silberhütte is a village in the town of Harzgerode in the district of Harz in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

Hitherto there had been a silver works at this site and several stamp mills, where ore won from the surrounding mines was processed.

The artificial channel built to supply water to the works (from 1904 known as the Silberhütter Kunstgraben) is the longest in the Lower Harz Pond and Ditch System at 25.5 km.

A powder mill was opened in 1790 which supplied hunters as well as the surrounding Lower Harz mines.

From 1893 it also took on the production of fireworks - the firm exists today as the Pyrotechnik Silberhütte (a subsidiary of Rheinmetall Waffe Munition).