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The Brocken rises over the Harz National Park in the borough of Wernigerode, whose main town lies about 12 km east-northeast of the mountain.
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Brocken and over
* Subalpine zone: Brocken summit, over
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.
For example, the summit of the Achtermannshöhe consists of contact-metamorphosed hornfels of the contact zone that, here, lies over the Brocken granite.
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.
Brocken and Harz
The town lies at about 250 metres above sea level ( NN ) on the northeastern flank of the Harz Mountains in central Germany, at the foot of their highest peak, the Brocken, on the B 6 and B 244 federal highways and on the railway line from Halberstadt to Vienenburg that links the cities of Halle ( Saale ) and Hanover.
The highest mountain of the Harz ( and of Northern Germany ) is Brocken, with an elevation of 1, 141 meters ( 3, 735 ft ).
The Brocken, in the Harz Mountains, described in Heine's Die Harzreise
The legendary Brocken is the highest summit in the Harz with a height of above sea level.
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.
Only on the southeastern perimeter of the Upper Harz, which is also called the High Harz ( Hochharz ) ( Goslar, Osterode and Harz districts ), does the mountain range exceed on the Brocken massif.
The Harz National Park is located in the Harz ; the protected area covers the Brocken and surrounding wilderness area.
File: Klimadiagramm-Brocken ( Harz )- Deutschland-metrisch-deutsch. png | Brocken ( windward )
In 1705, the last bear was killed in the Harz, on the Brocken.
Well-known destinations are the Harz National Park and the Brocken, as well as the historic towns on the edge of the Harz.
Concepts like the Western town, Pullman City Harz, or the rock operas on the Brocken are intended to be particularly attractive to foreign tourists.
The park included large parts of the eastern Harz, roughly from the Ecker Dam and the national park municipality of Ilsenburg in the north and Schierke in the south as well as the Brocken.
The Harz is home to the Brocken anemone ( Pulsatilla alpina subsp.
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.
Today the Brocken is part of the Harz National Park and hosts a historic botanical garden of about 1, 600 alpine mountain plants.
The granitic plutons of the Harz-the Brocken, Ramberg and Oker plutons-emerged towards the end of the Harz mountain-building phase of the Upper Carboniferous, about 300 million years ago.
Today's blockfields of Brocken granite, as well as other rocks in the Harz National Park, particularly in the Oder valley, are therefore at least 10, 000 years old.
In 1937 the Brocken, together with the Wurmberg, Achtermann and Acker-Bruchberg were designated as the Upper Harz ( Oberharz ) nature reserve.
Brocken and National
In 2006, the granite blockfields of the Brocken, together with 76 other interesting geotopes, were designated as a " National Geotope ".
In the Brocken Garden, established in 1890, flora is nurtured by National Park employees and visitors are allowed to view it as part of regular guided tours.
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.
Brocken House ( Brockenhaus ), the modern information centre for the Harz National Park, is located in the converted " Stasi Mosque " ( Stasi-Moschee ), a former surveillance installation for the Ministry for State Security.
* Brocken National Park
Brocken and borough
Königsburg is a ruined medieval castle southeast of Königshütte, a village in the borough of Oberharz am Brocken, in Harz district in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Brocken and Wernigerode
May the joint efforts of the royal authorities, the local police, the Wernigerode Nature Conservation Society and individual friends of the Brocken also succeed now in central Germany, through caring nurture across the board, in establishing and preserving the Brocken too, as a small, but unique, nature reserve for the German people.
Today a narrow gauge railway, the Brocken Railway, once more shuttles between Wernigerode, Drei Annen Hohne, Schierke and the Brocken.
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.
Brocken and whose
The Brocken is the only mountain in Germany's Central Uplands whose summit lies above the treeline, so that only very small spruce grow there and much of it is covered by a dwarf shrub heathland.
Brocken and main
Notable examples of main characters created in this manner include Warsman and Brocken Jr.
Brocken and town
The most popular theory states that the historical name of the town, Sarabrucca, derived from the Celtic word briga ( hill, or rock, big stone ), which became Brocken ( can mean rock or boulder ) in High German.
In the town records ( Stadtbuch ) of Osterwieck an entry for the Brocken was found in the year 1495 under the Latin name of mons ruptus, which means " broken hill ".
Brocken and lies
At the southeastern foot of the Brocken lies the spa resort of Schierke.
It lies within the Harz mountain range, south of the Brocken.
Brocken and about
Tourism on the Brocken has since then become very intense – about 1. 3 million people visit the summit of the Brocken annually.
Near its perimeter the park terrain is about in the north and in the south and climbs to at the summit of the Brocken.
In order to provide a reference point for the old data, in the mid-1990s granite boulders were set on the highest point of the Brocken, which not only matched the old given height, but exceeded it by about a metre.
Amongst the typical species of the Brocken that are rarely if ever found elsewhere in North Germany and which occur above about are the variant of the Alpine Pasqueflower known as the Brocken flower or Brocken anemone ( Pulsatilla alpina subsp.
* Bibi Blocksberg, a German audio drama for children about a witch, refers to an alternate name for the Brocken ( Blocksberg ).
The Brocken spectre was observed and described by Johann Silberschlag in 1780, and has since been recorded often in literature about the region.
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