Schierke
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Harz and Schierke station.
Harz
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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.
Schierke station
Railway station
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Schierke station is the railway station in the village of Schierke operated by the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways on the Brocken Railway in the Harz Mountains of central Germany.
Barenberg
Peak
The Barenberg, also called the Bärenberg or Bärenkopf, is a mountain, 695.5 m above sea level, in the Harz Mountains of Germany near the village of Schierke, Harz county, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elend and Knochenbrecherkurve.
Elend
Village
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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.
Knochenbrecherkurve
Locality
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Knochenbrecherkurve is a locality, which is situated 4½ km northwest of Schierke.
Schierke
- Type: Village with 733 residents
- Description: quarter of Wernigerode in the Harz mountains in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
- Categories: Ortsteil and locality
- Location: Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.7644° or 51° 45′ 52″ northLongitude
10.6594° or 10° 39′ 34″ eastPopulation
733Elevation
614 metres (2,014 feet)United Nations Location Code
DE CHKOpen location code
9F3GQM75+QPOpenStreetMap ID
node 240050246OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bashkir to Volapük—“Schierke” goes by many names.
- Bashkir: “Ширке”
- Catalan: “Schierke”
- Cebuano: “Schierke”
- Chechen: “Ширке”
- Danish: “Schierke”
- Dutch: “Schierke”
- Esperanto: “Schierke”
- Finnish: “Schierke”
- French: “Schierke”
- German: “Schierke”
- Irish: “Schierke”
- Italian: “Schierke”
- Japanese: “シールケ”
- Kazakh: “Şïrke”
- Kazakh: “Ширке”
- Kazakh: “شىيركە”
- Kirghiz: “Ширке”
- Macedonian: “Ширке”
- Persian: “شیرکه”
- Polish: “Schierke”
- Romanian: “Schierke”
- Russian: “Ширке”
- Swedish: “Schierke”
- Tatar: “Ширке”
- Uzbek: “Schierke”
- Uzbek: “Shirke”
- Uzbek: “Счиерке”
- Uzbek: “Ширке”
- Volapük: “Schierke”
- “Schierke”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Schierke”. Photo: Gottfried Hoffmann -…, CC BY 3.0.