The Harz – the highest mountain range in Northern Germany

A unique experience for all who like nature, mining, and trains

Situated in the centre of Germany, the Harz offers many sites of natural beauty as well as many interesting places of cultural and artistic importance, which can be visited.

The landscape fascinates by his diversity with summits and valleys, forests, lakes and marshlands.
Worthwhile to see are the many stalactite caverns and all the impressive sites of mining activities, which already started in the Bronze Age - about 3000 years ago.

The legendary Brocken is the highest summit in the Harz and it can be reached comfortably with the Harz Narrow Gauge Railway.

With the Harz Narrow Gauge Railway to the Brocken

On the way to the Brocken

View of Wernigerode with the Brocken in the background, on a lithograph by Gustav Kraus from about 1830. Kunstantiquariat Monika Schmidt.