Stamping point 104 / Tränkebachhütte

The Tränkebachhütte (560 m above sea level) is a very well-kept refuge of the Harzklub ZV Seesen above Seesen.

On a clear day, you can see as far as the Weser Uplands from here. The source of the Trän­ke­bach stream is loca­ted next to the hut. 

Just like the Man­do­li­nen­hüt­te HWN 142, the Trän­ke­bach­hüt­te is loca­ted on the Stein­way Trail, which leads from Wolfs­ha­gen to Seesen.

Hein­rich Engel­hard Stein­weg (1797–1871) was born in Wolfs­ha­gen in the Harz Moun­ta­ins. He came to See­sen in 1825 to work as a mas­ter car­pen­ter. Here, the musi­cal­ly talen­ted Hein­rich Engel­hard initi­al­ly repai­red table pia­nos and musi­cal instru­ments on the side until he estab­lished hims­elf as an instru­ment maker in 1836. He spe­cia­li­zed in the con­s­truc­tion of upright and grand pia­nos and gai­ned a repu­ta­ti­on. In 1850, the fami­ly emi­gra­ted to New York. With their acqui­red know­ledge of pia­no making, they foun­ded the inter­na­tio­nal­ly renow­ned com­pa­ny Stein­way & Sons the­re in 1853. The Stein­weg fami­ly, later Stein­way, always main­tai­ned cont­act with their home in the Harz Moun­ta­ins and came to visit again and again. Num­e­rous traces of the fami­ly can still be found in Wolfs­ha­gen and See­sen today. 

Fol­low the rou­te that Hein­rich is said to have taken to his bel­oved in See­sen and find out more about the Stein­ways« suc­cess story!

Good start­ing points for a hike to the Trän­ke­bach­hüt­te are the Stern­platz par­king lot or the Neckeln­berg par­king lot. Both are loca­ted on the road from Lau­ten­thal to Seesen.