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The Brocken has always played a role in legends and has been connected with witches and devils ; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe took up the legends in his play Faust.
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Tourism on the Brocken has since then become very intense – about 1. 3 million people visit the summit of the Brocken annually.
Due to its significant height difference compared with the surrounding terrain the Brocken has the highest precipitation of any point in northern central Europe, with an average annual precipitation ( 1961 – 1990 ) of 1, 814 millimetres.
The Brocken weather station has recorded the following extreme values:
Worthy of special mention is the bearer of the Badge of Honour of Saxony-Anhalt, Benno Schmidt ( b. 1932 )-also known Brocken Benno-of Wernigerode, who has climbed the mountain since 1989, almost daily, with more than 6, 000 ascents ( as at 21 May 2010 ) and whose feat has been registered in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Two well-known running events pass over the Brocken: the Ilsenburg Brocken Run ( beginning of September, 26 kilometres, of which 12 kilometres uphill, has taken place since the 1920s ) and the Brocken Marathon which is part of the Harz Mountain Run with its start and finish south of Wernigerode.
Since 2004, the Brocken Challenge, an ultra marathon 84 kilometres long from Göttingen to the Brocken summit, has been staged in February each year.
The 87 kilometre-long " Brocken Climb " from Göttingen to the Brocken has taken place annually since 2003.
The Brocken spectre was observed and described by Johann Silberschlag in 1780, and has since been recorded often in literature about the region.
Brocken spectre with a Halo ( optical phenomenon ) | glory, an atmospheric effect of light which has powerful instrumental effect in one of the scenes from the novel Confessions of a Justified Sinner.
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After the first Brocken lodge had been destroyed by a fire, a new hotel opened in 1862.
In Old Saxon-Germanic times, a large portrait of Wodin is supposed to have been found on the Brocken.
Since the 1930s various radio and television transmitters have been erected on the Brocken, see Brocken Transmitter.
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The highest mountain of the Harz ( and of Northern Germany ) is Brocken, with an elevation of 1, 141 meters ( 3, 735 ft ).
The legendary Brocken is the highest summit in the Harz with a height of above sea level.
The first attempts at forest conservation in the Harz were centred on the Brocken, and began with a far-sighted nature conservation act over 275 years ago.
In the German Democratic Republic era, the Brocken was accessible until 1961 with an easily obtained pass.
The Brocken Garden, a botanical garden on the summit of the Brocken, deals mainly with the protection fo plant species and restoration of the summit area.
The state boundary with Lower Saxony runs past the Brocken some 2 km to the west.
The rounded summit of the Brocken is treeless, but vegetated with dwarf shrubs.
In 2006, the granite blockfields of the Brocken, together with 76 other interesting geotopes, were designated as a " National Geotope ".
In 1937 the Brocken, together with the Wurmberg, Achtermann and Acker-Bruchberg were designated as the Upper Harz ( Oberharz ) nature reserve.
At the summit is the Brockenhaus with a museum on the history of the mountain and the Brocken Garden ( a botanical garden ), which is managed by the Harz National Park.
The area around the Brocken is especially popular with hikers.
* " Black Sabbath ", the first track of the debut album of the early occult rock band Coven, starts with the line " They journeyed far to Brocken Mountain pinnacle ".
Glories are often seen in association with a Brocken spectre, the apparently enormously magnified shadow of an observer, cast ( when the Sun is low ) on clouds below the mountain the viewer is standing on.
Brocken and witches
* Goethe described the Brocken in his Faust, first published in 1808, as the center of revelry for witches on Walpurgisnacht ( April 30 ; the eve of St Walpurga's Day ).
: Now to the Brocken the witches ride ;
* The indie rock band Liars ' album They Were Wrong, So We Drowned is a concept album loosely based on tales of the gatherings of witches on The Brocken as well as witch trials.
In Germany, Walpurgisnacht, the night from 30 April to 1 May, is the night when witches are reputed to hold a large celebration on the Brocken and await the arrival of spring.
Giant shadows that seemed to move by themselves due to movement of the cloud layer ( this movement is another part of the definition of the Brocken Spectre ), and that were surrounded by optical glory halos, may have contributed to the reputation the Harz mountains hold as a refuge for witches and evil spirits.
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The Harz National Park is located in the Harz ; the protected area covers the Brocken and surrounding wilderness area.
At that time, there was still no mass tourism on the Brocken ; in the year 1779 only 421 walkers were recorded.
The Brocken, also sometimes referred to as the Blocksberg, is the highest peak of the Harz mountain range and also the highest peak of Northern Germany ; it is located near Schierke in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt between the rivers Weser and Elbe.
In 1935 the Deutsche Reichspost made the first television broadcast from the Brocken using a mobile transmitter and, in the following year, the first television tower in the world was built on the mountain ; carrying the first live television broadcast of the Summer Olympics in Berlin.
This is not actually on Brocken, but was taken in the Tanzawa Mountains in Japan ; despite the name, the phenomenon is not unique to Brocken and can occur in any misty mountain region.
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Important publicans in the past included Johann Friedrich Gerlach from 1801 to 1834, Carl Eduard Nehse between 1834 and 1850, who brought out a map of the Brocken in 1849 and the Brocken Register ( Brockenstammbuch ) in 1850, as well as Rudolf Schade from 1908 to 1927, who considerably increased the repute and the size of guest facilities on the Brocken.
Brocken and Goethe
In 1777, Goethe climbed the Brocken, departing from Torfhaus.
The Goethe Way ( Goetheweg ) is a well known trail that leads to the summit of the Brocken.
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It occupies an area of, and is divided into the Upper Harz ( Oberharz ) in the northwest, which is up to 800 m high, apart from the 1, 100 m high Brocken massif, and the Lower Harz ( Unterharz ) in the east which is up to around 400 m high and whose plateaus are capable of supporting arable farming.
The ruins of the Brocken Hotel were blown up in 1949.
Then he sees the shadow of an enormous dark figure advancing toward him threateningly — the Brocken spectre created by the shadow of Robert sneaking up behind him.
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