page_title: Maaßener Gaipel
section_title: Pub
hierarchical_section_title: Maaßener Gaipel / History / Pub
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Mundloch des "Bierstollens", der als Getränkekeller des Maaßener Gaipels diente.
context_page_description: The Maaßener Gaipel is a pub catering for day trippers on the northeastern hillside of the Kranichsberg at a height of 420 m above NN, situated above the mining town of Lautenthal in the Harz Mountains of central Germany. The name goes back to the above-ground workings of the Maaßener Treibschacht or Maaßen Hoisting Shaft 51°51′49″N 10°17′25″E, which was located immediately east of the inn. Gaipel is a common expression in the Upper Harz for a headframe and goes back to the use of a horse whim which in German is a Pferdegöpel. Whims were used to transport men and materiel up and down mineshafts, for example using man engines, and also to operate water management equipment. Maaßen is shorthand for the name of the local pit which was the Grube Zweite, Dritte, Vierte, Fünfte und Sechste Maß nach der Sachsenzeche. Maaß, also variously spelt Maaß, Maas or Mas, is a unit of length for a pit field and in mining in the Upper Harz measured 28 Lachter or 53.8 metres.
  The pub was built in 1924 on the initiative of the Harz Club on the terrain of the old mine shaft.
context_section_description: Because area around the mine was already being visited by walkers, in the 1860s a small garden with seating was laid out on the spoil heap. The miners operating the shaft provided visitors with hot water for brewing their coffee. When, in 1920, the mining facilities disappeared, their loss threatened this popular destination. As a result, the then chairman of the local branch of the Harz Club, master forester, Quickert, and mining administrator (Bergrat), Barry, had the idea of building a pub on the site of the Maaßener Gaipel. With donated construction wood and volunteers, a small forest inn was built from 1924 to 1925, which was managed by the Harz Club. In order to avoid the threat of closure due to its poor state of repair, from 1976 to 1978 the guest room and kitchen were modernised and toilets added. In the 1980s, the Harz Club bought the mining land, which covered an area of 14 hectares, from Preussag AG Metall.
  The inn is checkpoint number 107 in the Harzer Wandernadel hiking system.
caption: Portal of an old mine gallery at the Maaßen Hoisting Shaft. It is used by the pub as a drinks store, hence the name.
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