Hahnenklee-Bockswiese is a district and at the same time a village of the city of Goslar with about 1200 inhabitants.
It is located about 16 kilometers south of the city center of Goslar on a high plateau in the Upper Harz in Lower Saxony.
The Kranicher ponds are located in the Hahnenklee spa park. Both waters are separated by the dam of the smaller one and are connected by the outflow of this Small Kranicher Pond. Normally, both Kranicher ponds have the same - maximum - water level.
The ponds were created in 1674 to store the operating water necessary for driving the water wheels in the nearby silver mines. The dam of the Great Crane Pond is about 8.60 meters high and about 130 meters long. At this pond dam, which was built in the old way of construction, there is still the well preserved harrow house. This is no longer present in most of the other Upper Harz ponds built in the old construction method. In the case of reconstructions, it was usually replaced by the harrow shaft, which was integrated directly into the pond dam and was therefore less susceptible to maintenance and less expensive in the long run.
The Great Crane Pond can store up to 110,000 m³ of water, the Small Pond about 11,000 m³. Both ponds together have a length of almost 350 meters, of which the Great Kranicher Pond accounts for about 230 meters.
                                
 
                                
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