Brocken
Brocken, 1,141 m above sea level is the highest summit in the Harz mountains and in the northern part of Germany. Brocken is the German word for boulder and when you see the mountain you realise where the name comes from, as the mountain rises like a cake above the landscape.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rosa-Maria Rinkl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,141 metres
- Description: highest mountain of the Harz Mountains in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
- Also known as: “Blocksberg”, “Brocken Mountain”, “Brockenberg”, and “The Brocken”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Tillea, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brockenhaus and Brocken Garden.
Brocken Garden
Garden
Photo: Wusel007, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Brocken Garden is an alpine botanical garden on the summit of the Brocken, the highest peak in the Harz mountains of Germany. It lies within the Harz National Park near Wernigerode in the state of Saxony-Anhalt and has a stock of around 1,600 types of plant.
Königsberg
Peak
Photo: Tomihahndorf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Königsberg is a neighbouring peak of the Brocken and, at 1033.5 m above sea level the third highest elevation in the Harz mountains. It lies on a long ridge that runs from southeast to northwest about 1.5 km south of the Brocken's summit.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Knochenbrecherkurve and Quitschenhai.
Brocken
- Categories: mountain, main peak, one-thousander, highest point, and landform
- Location: Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.7991° or 51° 47′ 57″ northLongitude
10.6156° or 10° 36′ 56″ eastElevation
1,141 metres (3,743 feet)Open location code
9F3GQJX8+M7OpenStreetMap ID
node 26862634OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Brocken” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Brocken”
- Arabic: “جبل بروكن”
- Aragonese: “Brocken”
- Armenian: “Բրոկեն”
- Basque: “Brocken”
- Belarusian: “Брокен”
- Catalan: “Brocken”
- Cebuano: “Brocken (tumoy sa bukid)”
- Cebuano: “Brocken”
- Chinese: “布罗肯峰”
- Chinese: “布羅肯峰”
- Czech: “Brocken”
- Danish: “Bloksbjerg”
- Danish: “Brocken”
- Dutch: “Blocksberg”
- Dutch: “Brocken”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بروكن”
- Esperanto: “Blocksberg”
- Esperanto: “Blokmonto”
- Esperanto: “Brocken”
- Estonian: “Blocksberg”
- Estonian: “Blocksbergi mägi”
- Estonian: “Brocken”
- French: “Blocksberg”
- French: “Brocken”
- French: “Mont Blocksberg”
- French: “Mont Brocken”
- German: “Blocksberg”
- German: “Brocken”
- Hebrew: “ברוקן”
- Hungarian: “Brocken”
- Icelandic: “Blokksbjarg”
- Interlingue: “Brocken”
- Italian: “Brocken”
- Italian: “Monte Blocksberg”
- Italian: “Monte Brocken”
- Japanese: “ブロッケン山”
- Ladin: “Brocken”
- Latin: “mons Bructerus”
- Latin: “Mons ruptus”
- Lithuanian: “Brokenas”
- Lithuanian: “Brokeno kalnas”
- Lombard: “Brocken”
- Low German: “Brocken”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Blocksberg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Blocksbierg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Blokksberg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bloksberg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brocken”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Blokksberg”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brocken”
- Norwegian: “Brocken”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Blocksberg”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Brocken”
- Persian: “بروکن (کوه)”
- Persian: “بروکن”
- Polish: “Brocken”
- Portuguese: “Brocken”
- Russian: “Блоксберг”
- Russian: “Брокен”
- Russian: “Броккен”
- Slovak: “Brocken”
- Slovenian: “Blocksberg”
- Slovenian: “Brocken”
- Spanish: “Blocksberg”
- Spanish: “Brocken”
- Swahili: “Blocksberg”
- Swedish: “Brocken”
- Ukrainian: “Брокен”
- Ukrainian: “Броккен”
- Upper Sorbian: “Brocken”
- Venetian: “Brocken”
- Welsh: “Brocken”
- “Brocken”
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