vantage points for photographers

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Vantage points for photographers

The following table is to give particularly localunaquainted a few tips concerning places to record video or take photo. For finding the locations a trail map is quite helpful.
From the points of view photos are possible, which contain except the locomotive something train and something landscape also.

Gernrode	Railroad overpass Osterteichstraße (to late morning)	View from mountain "Alte Burg" near Gernrode to a train to Alexisbad photo: Klaus Gottschling    Zoom 53,2 KB
	for climbing friends of rock of the mountain "Alte Burg" above the parking of the open-air swimming pool Osterteich (to late morning)
Ostergrund (Easter-ground)	Heiligenteich (Holy pond) (to noon of the valley way; in the afternoon of the slope)	Special train with loco 99 7243 and railcar NWE T3 at the meadow behind the flagstop Sternhaus Haferfeld on 1997/08/08 (110 years Selketalbahn) photo: Klaus Gottschling    Zoom 66,4 KB
Sternhaus Haferfeld	Meadows between the flagstops Sternhaus Haferfeld and Sternhaus Ramberg (up to the afternoon)
Heinrichsburg	Meadow above the castle "Heinrichsburg" (about 1200 m footpath along the track of the railroad overpass above station Mägdesprung)	Rare application of "Harzkamels" (diesel locomotive of class 199.8 - nicknamed Harz camel or red camel) in the Selketal - Loco 199 872 with a passenger train before flagstop Drahtzug im March 1997 photo: Heiko Zeckai    Zoom 61,2 KB
	Meadows directly below the ruin of castle Heinrichsburg
Stahlhammer	Rock break-through, railway track at the slope above the road
Drahtzug	line at the slope briefly before the flagstop
Selkewasserfall (Selke-waterfall)	Rock break-through above the Selke-waterfalls (acces over the way which starts at Drahtzug)	Railcar 187 015 at the crosswalk behind the Klostermühle (monastery mill) photo: Klaus Gottschling    Zoom 100,0 KB
	some hundred meters along the track there is the next rock break-through
Alexisbad Klostermühle	Crosswalk at the way to Bremer Teich (Bremen pond) (starting from noon) Acces of the local input from direction Mägdesprung on the right
B 242 direction Harzgerode	Rock beside the road between both railroad overpasses (to noon)	Train behind the second railroad overpass over B 242 direction Harzgerode photo: Klaus Gottschling    Zoom 55,4 KB
	above the first railroad overpass from direction Harzgerode
Harzgerode	track through the town before the two railroad overpasses underneath the station
Silberhütte	Railroad overpass at the sawmill Rinkemühle	Special train with locos 99 6101 and 99 6102 (Fiffi) driving through Straßberg photo: Klaus Gottschling    Zoom 52,4 KB
	about 300 m toward Alexisbad is a further rock break-through, which is artificially secured against rockslide
Straßberg	Meadow between Silberhütte and Straßberg from road
	Meadow at the edge of Straßberg of the drive at the north slope
	Traversing the Selke-valley at km 22,9 - former start of connection track to mine Herzogschacht (to noon)
Güntersberge	Mühlteich (Mill pond) in Güntersberge	train between flagstop Albrechtshaus and Stiege on the high area photo: Heiko Zeckai    Zoom 42,8 KB
	Brook bridge on the west bank of the Mühlteich (Mill pond) on the way to ruin of Güntersburg (starting from noon)
Albrechtshaus	vertex of the railway route; near to the former village Selkenfelde (in the afternoon)
Stiege / Hasselfelde	Track leads across the high area around Stiege and Hasselfelde. From many places it is observably and therefore ideally particularly for recording video.
Birkenmoor	pward gradient from direction Eisfelder Talmühle before the flagstop Birkenmoor; trains to Stiege (to noon)	train with loco 99 6001 downhill trough the valley "Beretal" photo: Heiko Zeckai    Zoom 58,3 KB
Eisfelder Talmühle	Bridge in the Beretal behind the quarry Unterberg (noon until afternoon)

 

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Photos from the 1980's

Mallet-locomotive 99 5902 stands before a passenger train in summer of 1981 in Gernrode photo: Klaus Gottschling Zoom 58,0 KB	Before departure of the train ash is pulled from the smoke chamber of loco 99 5902 photo: Klaus Gottschling Zoom 49,2 KB	Loco 99 5902 with passenger train in Gernrode - summer 1981 photo: Klaus Gottschling Zoom 52,0 KB
Train with loco 99 5902, open car, baggage car and passenger cars in the status before the reconstruction is passing through Alexisbad in summer 1981 photo: Klaus Gottschling Zoom 58,0 KB	train with loco 99 6001-4 before the station Sternhaus Ramberg in summer 1981 photo: Klaus Gottschling Zoom 125,0 KB	In 1981 loco 99 6102 (Fiffi) was stored at the locomotive shed in Gernrode photo: Klaus Gottschling Zoom 51,0 KB

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Photo tips

Taking photos during a journey The tourist, to who today here, tomorrow there always new landscapes are offered, travels best with a hand-camera (with short single dump or adjustable objective), which is created both for roll film and for plate film. One pays attention with the selection of a certain stand and particularly to a good and intense optical equipment. The format is not below 9:12 cm. A folding tripod is not forgotten!
Extremely gratefully also a hand-camera, created for taking of stereo-photos, which with their physical effect are the most beautiful memory of journey. - Who can travel more leisurely and have longer stays (e.g. going away for a summer holliday), takes itself a good travel camera for the format of 13:18 cm (event. with stereoskop) with solid tripod and supplies itself with a anastigmatical double-objectiv (its lenses with different focal lengths are also single usable). One notes with the fact that a relatively long focal length shows the perspective the eye most appropriately. Thus one selects e.g. for the format 9:12 cm of objectives with at least 13 to 15 cm, for 13:18 cm of objectives with at least 20-21 cm focal length. Operating with the stand camera is the Alpha and Omega of the landscape photography; EVERYONE should begin with it and reach only for attained exercise to the hand camera, whose fine utilization requires a large skill. It offers alone the possibility, to catch an often only very short time dominant effect.
In order to let the wealth of the tones increased become effective, we recommend colour-sensitive, antihalo plates as photographic material. The tourist with hand camera uses because of its ease and shatterproofness film luggage (praised the Zeiss packing) or those of the roll film, which additionall makes him independent of the darkroom. When using other darkrooms, particularly in the hotels one is very careful - the developing and the copying one leaves at the best after termination of the journey to the domestic photographer.
(aus: Meyers Reisebücher 'Der Harz', Große Ausgabe, Zwanzigste Auflage, Leipzig und Wien. Bibliographisches Institut 1909.)

(out: Meyers travel books 'The Harz', large output, twentieth edition, Leipzig and Vienna. Bibliographic institute 1909.)

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