Harz
The Harz is a low mountain range in the Central Uplands of Germany, famous for its historic silver mines that brought prosperity to the region and to the Electorate of Hanover.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 838 metres
- Description: low mountain range in northern Germany
- Also known as: “Der Harz”, “Hartz Mountains”, and “Harz Mountains”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wurmberg and Kleiner Winterberg.
Wurmberg
Peak
Photo: Steffen M., CC BY-SA 3.0.
At 971 m above sea level the Wurmberg is the second highest mountain in the Harz and the highest in Lower Saxony.
Kleiner Winterberg
Peak
The Kleiner Winterberg is a mountain, 837 m above sea level, in the borough of Wernigerode, Harz county, in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is found in the Harz Mountains and is a subpeak of the Wurmberg, the highest point in the neighbouring state of Lower Saxony.
Großer Winterberg
Peak
Photo: Steffen Löwe Gera, CC BY 3.0.
The Großer Winterberg is a mountain, 906.4 m above sea level, and a subpeak of the Wurmberg, the highest mountain in the neighbouring state of Lower Saxony in the High Harz of central Germany.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schierke and Braunlage.
Schierke
Photo: Gottfried Hoffmann -…, CC BY 3.0.
Schierke is a small spa town, at 600 metres altitude, in the Harz Mountains. It is a popular tourist destination, not least as a base for walks up the Brocken, the highest mountain in the region.
Braunlage
Photo: Kassandro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Braunlage is a town and health resort in the Goslar district of Lower Saxony in Germany. Situated within the Harz mountain range, south of the Brocken massif, Braunlage's main business is tourism, particularly skiing.
Elend
Village
Photo: Hejkal, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Elend is a district of the town of Oberharz am Brocken in the Harz District, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It lies in the Bode valley in the High Harz in central Germany, at a height of 505 m above NN.
Harz
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Harz” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبال هارز”
- Armenian: “Հարց”
- Basque: “Harz”
- Belarusian: “Гарц”
- Bengali: “হার্জ”
- Bosnian: “Harz”
- Breton: “Harz”
- Bulgarian: “Харц”
- Catalan: “Districte del Harz”
- Catalan: “Harz”
- Cebuano: “Harz”
- Chinese: “哈爾茨山脈”
- Chinese: “哈茨山”
- Czech: “Harz”
- Danish: “Harzen”
- Dutch: “Harz”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبال هارز”
- Esperanto: “Harco”
- Estonian: “Harz”
- Finnish: “Harz”
- French: “Hartz”
- French: “Harz”
- Georgian: “ჰარცი”
- German: “D37”
- German: “Hartz”
- German: “Harz”
- German: “Silva Hercynia”
- Greek: “Χαρζ”
- Hebrew: “הרי הארץ”
- Hebrew: “הרי ההארץ”
- Hungarian: “Harz”
- Icelandic: “Harzfjöll”
- Indonesian: “Pegunungan Harz”
- Italian: “Harz”
- Japanese: “ハルツ山地”
- Ladin: “Harz”
- Latin: “Harthici montes”
- Latin: “Silva Hercynia”
- Latvian: “Harcs”
- Lithuanian: “Harcas”
- Low German: “Harz”
- Macedonian: “Харц”
- Malagasy: “Harz”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Harz”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Harz”
- Norwegian: “Harz”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Harz”
- Persian: “کوههای هارتس”
- Persian: “کوههای هارتس”
- Persian: “هارتس”
- Polish: “Góry Harz”
- Polish: “Harz”
- Portuguese: “Harz”
- Romanian: “Harz”
- Russian: “Гарц”
- Serbian: “Харц”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Harz”
- Slovak: “Harz”
- Slovenian: “D37”
- Slovenian: “Harz”
- Slovenian: “Silva Hercynia”
- Spanish: “Harz”
- Swedish: “Harz”
- Turkish: “Harz”
- Ukrainian: “Гарц”
- Upper Sorbian: “Smoliny”
- Venetian: “Harz”
- Welsh: “Harz”
- Western Frisian: “Harz”
- Western Panjabi: “ہارز”
- “Harz”
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