The invention discloses a device for preparing heavy magnesium carbonate from heavy magnesium water and a preparation method, relating to the field of inorganic salt synthesis. The device comprises aheating pipe, a settling tank, a reaction tank, a discharging auger, a stirring tank, a sampling hole, filtering equipment and drying equipment, wherein a steam inlet and a heavy magnesium water inletare formed in one end of the heating pipe; a first reaction kettle stirrer is arranged in the reaction tank; a sampling pipeline is arranged on the left side of the lower end of the settling tank; and a reflux pipeline is arranged on the right side of the lower end of the settling tank. The preparation method comprises the following steps: heating heavy magnesium water with steam, carrying out adecomposition reaction in the reaction tank, entering the settling tank to settle, discharging large-particle materials by the discharging auger, pulping, filtering, and drying, thereby obtaining theheavy magnesium carbonate. The device disclosed by the invention has the beneficial effects that the device disclosed by the invention is simple and compact in equipment, the equipment is normal pressure equipment, and the pH value of the reaction is neutral; the equipment material requirement is low, and the cost is low; and in the preparation method, in addition to the heavy magnesium water andsteam, other extra materials are not added, and the product quality is easy to control.