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Welcome! 170px A warm welcome to the Harz Mountains Portal, the home of Wikipedia information on the Harz Mountains, an important natural landscape and tourist destination in North Germany. The portal gives a brief overview of the region as well as acting as a road map for many of the articles about the Harz Mountains in English Wikipedia.

Harz Mountains The Harz is the second highest mountain range in Germany's Central Uplands after the Ore Mountains and extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. The name Harz derives from the Middle High German word Hardt or Hart (mountain forest). The Harz has the highest mountain in northwestern Germany, the legendary Brocken, which is 1,141 metres (3,743 ft) above sea level and was the site of a former Soviet listening post during the Cold War. The Harz also hosts the highest dam in Germany, the 106 m high Rappbode Dam. The region has a high level of snow and rainfall, and its network of lakes and dams provide drinking water to the surrounding towns and cities as well as flood protection. It is also a popular tourist destination with ski resorts such as Braunlage and Sankt Andreasberg and a major hiking trail network known as the Harzer Wandernadel. More... Geography and Nature 80px Landscape: Hercynian Forest, Upper Harz Animals: Bear Monument, Black Stork, Dipper, Lynx, Harz Roller, Peregrine, Tengmalm's Owl, Wildcat Caves: Baumann's Cave, Hermann's Cave Gardens : Arboretum Bad Grund, Brockengarten Geology: Rhenohercynian Zone Lakes and reservoirs: List, Harzwasserwerke, Brockenteich, Ecker, Innerste, Königshütte, Mandelholz, Oder, Oderteich, Oker, Neustadt, Rappbode, Silberteich, Söse, Wendefurth, Wippra Nature parks: Harz National Park Mountains: List, Achtermannshöhe, Aschentalshalbe, Auf dem Acker, Bocksberg, Brocken, Bruchberg, Carlshaushöhe, Großer Knollen, Hasselkopf, Heinrichshöhe, Hohnekamm, Jordanshöhe, Königsberg, Kuppe, Rammelsberg, Ravensberg, Rehberg, Scharfenstein, Sonnenberg, Stöberhai, Wolfsklippen, Wolfswarte, Wurmberg, Zeterklippen Plateaux: Alter Stolberg, Hexentanzplatz Regions: Mansfelder Land Ridges: Langfast Rivers: Bode, Bode Gorge, Eine, Grane, Gose, Holtemme, Ilse, Innerste, Kalte Bode, Oder, Oker, Rappbode, Rhume, Selke, Söse, Warme Bode, Wipper, Wormke, Zillierbach, Zorge Rock formations: Ackertklippe, Bäumlersklippe, Brockentor, Böser Kleef, Elfenstein, Froschfelsen, Gänseschnabel, Hahnenkleeklippen, Hirschhornklippen, Hoher Kleef, Hamburger Wappen, Hübichenstein, Ilsestein, Kahle Klippe, Kamelfelsen, Kästeklippen, Muxklippe, Ottofels, Roßtrappe, Schnarcherklippen, Schurre, Taubenklippe, Treppenstein Natural monuments: Kleine Renne, Ottofels, Mönchsbuche, Steinerne Renne Culture Castles and stately homes: Alte Burg, Anhalt Castle, Erichsburg, Falkenstein, Grasburg, Güntersburg, Hasserode, Harzburg, Heinrichsberg, Herzberg, Hohnstein, Ilsenburg, Konradsburg, Lauenburg, Meisdorf Palace, Plessenburg, Scharzfels, Stapelburg, Wernigerode Cuisine: Harzer cheese, Schierker Feuerstein spirit Education: Clausthal University of Technology Forestry: Köte Language: Eastphalian, Thuringian, Upper Harz Legend: Princess Ilse Minerals: Breithauptite, Bournonite, Bronzite, Clausthalite, Goslarite, Harmotome, Harz Granite, Harzburgite, Manganite, Manganosite, Pyrargyrite, Samsonite, Umangite, Zinkenite Mining: Medieval mining, Mining in the Upper Harz, Dennert Fir Tree, Man engine, Rammelsberg Mine, Samson Pit, Upper Harz Ditches, Upper Harz Ponds, Upper Harz Water Regale, Upper Harz Water Tunnels Museums: Mines of Rammelsberg, Upper Harz Mining Museum Skiing: List of resorts, Braunlage, Sankt Andreasberg, Sonnenberg, Wurmberg, Wurmberg ski jumps Walking: Harz Club, Harz Run, Harzer Wandernadel network; Witches' Trail, Emperor's Trail Towers: Joseph's Cross Special articles: Brocken spectre, Harz Red mountain cattle, Imperial Palace of Goslar, Inner German Border, Molkenhaus, Romkerhall Hunting Lodge, Timber framing Towns and Villages Important Towns and Villages: Abbenrode, Allrode, Altenau, Bad Grund, Bad Harzburg, Bad Lauterberg im Harz, Bad Sachsa, Bad Suderode, Ballenstedt, Benneckenstein, Blankenburg, Braunlage, Breitenstein, Breitungen, Cattenstedt, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Dietersdorf, Elbingerode, Elend, Ellrich, Falkenstein, Gernrode, Goslar, Hainrode, Harzgerode, Hasselfelde, Hattorf am Harz, Hayn, Heimburg, Herrmannsacker, Herzberg am Harz, Hüttenrode, Ilfeld, Ilsenburg, Kleinleinungen, Langelsheim, Mansfeld, Neustadt, Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen, Osterode am Harz, Questenberg, Rieder, Roßla, Sangerhausen, Sankt Andreasberg, Schwenda, Seesen, Sorge, Stapelburg, Stiege, Stolberg, Tanne, Thale, Timmenrode, Trautenstein, Uftrungen, Wieda, Wildemann, Walkenried, Wernigerode, Westerhausen, Wienrode, Wippra, Zorge

80px Featured article: The Harzer Wandernadel is a network of checkpoints for walkers in the Harz mountains. It has a system whereby hikers can earn badges at different levels by walking to the various checkpoints and stamping their passbooks. With 222 checkpoints in three federal states and five districts and over 10,000 'members', the Harz walking network has gained a Germany-wide following. The Wandernadel ("hiking badge") helps holidaymakers and locals alike to get to know the varied and popular hiking trails in the area because the check points are placed on viewing points and hill tops, by caves and castles and other places that are rich in culture or steeped in history. Most can only be reached on foot or by bicycle. More... Articles to be added Bismarck Tower (Bad Lauterberg), Harzschützen, Homburg's Watchtower, Thale Mountain Theatre, Wurmberg Granite Abbeys: Hagenrode Castles: Kalkburg, Pipinsburg, Sachsenstein Castle Nature reserves: Kramershai Mountains and plateaux: Lange (Harz) Rivers: Kellwasser Valley Rocks: Gläserner Mönch Other: Regionalverband Harz, Kaiserworth, Krug Bridge, Lynx Stone, Wernigerode Orangery, Wernigerode Pleasure Garden Did you know, that...? The Wurmberg in the Harz, near Braunlage, is the highest mountain in Lower Saxony? An indication of the natural state of the beech woods in the Harz is the return of the black stork (pictured)? The Harz Narrow Gauge Railways, an old fashioned, steam and diesel-powered railway network is a very popular mode of transport, especially with tourists ? People 80px Botanists: Heinrich Karl Beyrich, Ludwig Preiss Historians: Werner Rahn, Oswald Spengler, Kurt Ranke Military: Baron Wilhelm von Biela, Wilhelm Bittrich, Albrecht Eggeling, Heinrich Fehlis, Kurt Ubben (fighter ace) Politicians: Karl von Einem and Alexander von Schleinitz (Prussian Foreign Ministers), Joseph von Radowitz (Prussian statesman) Sportsmen and women: Marco Bode (footballer), Björn Dreyer (footballer), Guido Fulst (cyclist), Joachim Kirst (decathlete), Manuela Lutze (sculler) Other notable people from the Harz: Ludwig Gattermann (chemist), Hermann Guthe (geographer), Robert Hartmann(scientist), Robert Koldewey (archaeologist), Thomas Müntzer (theologian), Fritz Pröll (resistance fighter), Julius Reubke (composer), "Hot steam" Schmidt (railway engineer), Henry E. Steinway (piano maker) Notable people who worked in the Harz: Wilhelm Albert, Christoph Gatterer, Ernst Hampe, Friedrich Hausmann, Karl August Lossen, Gerhard Zucker Rulers from the Harz: Albert I, Christian Louis, Ernest Augustus, George William, John Frederick, Sophie Amalie Tribes: Thuringii Politics and History History: County of Blankenburg, County of Stolberg, County of Wernigerode, History of Goslar, Imperial Palace of Goslar, Imperial Throne of Goslar, Mining in the Upper Harz, Principality of Grubenhagen, Principality of Stolberg-Wernigerode Military: 9th Infantry Division (US), 11th SS Panzer Army, 26th Infantry Division, 83rd Infantry Division (US), 643rd Tank Destroyer Battalion Politics and Administration: Goslar district, Harz district, Mansfeld-Südharz district, Nordhausen district, Osterode am Harz district Transport Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cable Car: Burgberg Cable Car Rail: Brocken Railway, Eisfelder Talmühle station, Harz Narrow Gauge Railways, Harzquerbahn, Innerste Valley Railway, Nordhausen-Wernigerode Railway Company, Selketalbahn, South Harz Railway Road: B 4, B 27, B 242, B 245, B 446, German Timber-Frame Road, Harz-Heide Road, Romanesque Road Religion 80px Churches: Goslar Cathedral, Gustav Adolf Stave Church Monasteries: Drübeck, Himmelpforten, Ilsenburg, Konradsburg, Michaelstein, Pöhlde, Walkenried

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