Spar-die-Müh11
Spare the trouble.
At the north end of the Bergstadt2 Lautenthal lies the Bielstein.
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.
Notes
2 Mining town.