Geography and Nature
Landscape : Hercynian Forest , Upper Harz
Animals : Bear Monument , Black Stork , Dipper , Lynx , Harz Roller , Peregrine , Boreal owl , Wildcat
Caves : Baumann's Cave , Hermann's Cave
Gardens : WeltWald Harz , Brocken Garden
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 House , 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 , Kaiser Way
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 , 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
General images
The following are images from various Harz-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 Old town of Wernigerode (from
Harz )
Image 2 Braunlage (windward) (from
Harz )
Image 4 Narrow gauge railway (from
Harz )
Image 5 The
Eurasian lynx – once again found living wild in the Harz (from
Harz )
Image 6 Carlshaus Tower on the
Carlshaushöhe (
626 m above NN ) (from
Harz )
Image 7 Rammelsberg Mining Museum (from
Harz )
Image 8 Bode Gorge (from
Harz )
Image 9 Spruce woods in the Harz (from
Harz )
Image 10 Mansfeld (leeward) (from
Harz )
Image 11 Sender Brocken at the summit in winter (from
Harz )
Image 12 Gabbro Quarry near
Bad Harzburg (from
Harz )
Image 15 Coloured black and white photograph: the Burgberg with Wernigerode Castle (between 1890 and 1905) (from
List of mountains and hills of the Harz )
Image 16 Reservoir behind the
Wendefurth Dam (from
Harz )
Image 17 Harz 1852 (from
Harz )
Image 18 Stolberg (from
Harz )
Image 19 The B 4/B 242 Harz high road near Braunlage (from
Harz )
Image 20 Former climbing areas on the
Roßtrappe (from
Harz )
Image 21 Prospecte des Hartzwalds (View of the Harz Forest) (from
Harz )
Image 22 View of the Upper Harz (from
Harz )
Image 23 Mining archive in
Clausthal-Zellerfeld (from
Harz )
Image 24 Bode Gorge (from
Harz )
Image 25 Map of the Harz mountains (from
Harz )
Image 26 The Oker with white water. A footpath is on the right bank. (from
Harz )
Image 27 Brocken (windward) (from
Harz )
Image 28 Torfhaus Moor (from
Harz )
Did you know
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
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)
Transport
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