Harz National Park
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Harz National Park is a protected area in the German federal states of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. It comprises portions of the western Harz mountain range, extending from Herzberg and Bad Lauterb
View from Brocken summit
View from Torfhaus to the Brocken
View of the Scharfenstein
Lynx Stone of 1818
Brocken
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Brocken, also sometimes referred to as Blocksberg, is a 1,141 m mountain near Schierke in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, between the rivers Weser and Elbe. The highest peak in the Harz mountain ra
Harz National Park
…of the park. Other dams and lakes within or bordering on the national park include the Ecker Dam and the Silberteich. The highest elevations are the Brocken, the Bruchberg and the Achtermann. The present, pan-state Nationalpark Harz was formed on 1 January 2006 from the merger of the old park of the same…
The summit of Brocken, showing the transmitters
Aerial photograph of the summit (2009)
Summit stone
Granite on the Brocken