[[2]] Mining town.
Below, at the north-west end of the town, the little river Innerste flows northward towards the Bielstein, and along its base.
Above this bend in the stream, where it turns to flow along the base, only a few steps from the stream, is a cave called the Zwergloch, or Dwarf-cave.
The level place at the foot of the Bielstein bears the name of Spar-die-Müh.
In the cave dwelt in earlier times three dwarfs, who often lent the people of Lautenthal money, and also gold and silver plate for weddings and baptisms.
Now it happened once that these borrowed objects were not returned. So when the people came again to borrow, they heard a voice call, "Spar-die-Müh!"
And from that time the dwarfs declined to oblige the neglectful citizens in any way, and since then the place has been called Spar-die-Müh.
The Dwarf-King Hibich.
The Hibichenstein, near Grand, consists of two colossal limestone cliffs leaning against each other, which are said to have been formed in the distant days when giants lived in the Hercynia Sylva,[[1]] from a pebble which a giant threw out of his shoe.