© Oberharzer Bergwerksmuseum

Ottiliae Shaft

Short facts

  • Clausthal-Zellerfeld

Just like the Kaiser Wilhelm II shaft, the Ottiliae-Schacht continued to generate electricity until 1980.

The filigree winding tower from 1876, constructed in the Königliche Zentralschmiede (Royal Central Forge) Clausthal, is the oldest preserved iron winding tower in Europe. Next to the shaft hall, the machine house has been preserved, in which the electric winding machine is not only demonstrated in operation during guided tours, but visitors can even try their hand at winding machines.
There are information boards in the surrounding area with many traces of mining activity to help visitors find their way around and show how the industrially transformed landscape has changed.

On the map

Das Oberharzer Bergwerksmuseum

Bornhardtstraße 16

38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld


Phone: 05323 98950

E-mail:

Next steps

More like this

It appears that you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer as your web browser to access our site.

For practical and security reasons, we recommend that you use a current web browser such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, or Edge. Internet Explorer does not always display the complete content of our website and does not offer all the necessary functions.