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5 unusual facts about Clausthal


Bergstadt

Clausthal-Zellerfeld, known officially as Bergstadt Clausthal-Zellerfeld, a mining town in the Harz mountains of Germany

Braunschweig Classix Festival

By granting licences in 2011 and 2012 two concerts were held under the festival name in Clausthal-Zellerfeld at the Sympatec GmbH's location Pulverhaus, with ongoing concerts for 2013 and 2014 already planned.

European Tournament for Dancing Students

The ETDS was founded by the university of Clausthal, Braunschweig and Kiel: they agreed to get to know each other during a tournament, and these three German universities organised the event a number of times.

Man engine

The first formal engine was installed in 1833 at a mine at Clausthal, Lower Saxony, where inspector Wilhelm Albert and manager Georg Dörell (1793–1854) fastened foot platforms and hand-holds to adjacent, reciprocating pump rods, using a waterwheel-driven pump put out of use when a new drainage adit was made at a lower level.

Rafed El-Masri

El-Masri was born and raised in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Lower Saxony, by Syrian immigrants, whom his father studied geology at the Clausthal University of Technology.


Bundesstraße 242

From Seesen on the northwestern edge of the Harz near the A 7 motorway it runs through the Upper Harz past Clausthal-Zellerfeld, the High Harz, where it is combined for several kilometres with the B 4, past Braunlage and then through the eastern Harz foothills into Mansfelder Land.

Mooskappe

In 1824 Heinrich Heine visited the Caroline and Dorothea mines at Clausthal.

Otto Erich Hartleben

Otto Erich Hartleben (3 June 1864 – 11 February 1905) was a German poet and dramatist from Clausthal, known for his translation of Pierrot Lunaire.


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