This list of mountains and hills in the Harz contains a selection of mountains, hills, high points and their outliers in the Harz Mountains of Germany. The Harz is part of the German Central Uplands and a natural region main unit (number D37) in the states of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. The list includes the mountains and hills of the Harz National Park and the nature parks of Harz (Lower Saxony), Harz/Saxony-Anhalt and the

South Harz South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...

. Hills in the

South Harz Karst Landscape Biosphere Reserve The South Harz Karst Landscape Biosphere Reserve (german: Biosphärenreservat Karstlandschaft Südharz) is a biosphere reserve in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It was founded on 23 March 2009 and is thus the 16th biosphere reserve in Germany ...

, the Harz regions of

Alter Stolberg The Alter Stolberg is a wooded karst plateau, up to , in the South Harz in Central Germany. It lies in the districts of Nordhausen in the state of Thuringia and Mansfeld-Südharz in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. Geographical location The ridge o ...

, Mansfeld Land, Ramberg and

Rüdigsdorf Switzerland Rüdigsdorf Switzerland (german: Rüdigsdorfer Schweiz) is a range of hills up to near the village of Rüdigsdorf in the district of Nordhausen in the German state of Thuringia. The landscape is the last intact gypsum karst region in the sta ...

are also included. ''→ see also: Harzklippen'' for a list of rock formations, including tors and crags. The table is sorted by elevations in metres above sea level referred to

Normalnull ("standard zero") or (short N. N. or NN ) is an outdated official vertical datum used in Germany. Elevations using this reference system were to be marked (“meters above standard zero”). has been replaced by (NHN). History In 187 ...

(NN), except where indicated, according to the

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). Several columns in the table are sortable by clicking on the symbols in the header. In the column “Mountain, hills, high point”, alternative names are given in brackets and in small, italicized text. In these columns, where the same name occurs more than once, it is distinguished by location names in small text in brackets. A key to the abbreviations used in the table is given

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Mountains and hills of unknown elevation

These are mountains and hills whose elevations are not known/yet researched:

Height unknown

These are mountains and hills whose height is unknown or not yet researched:

Abbreviations

The meanings of abbreviations found in the table are given below: Counties (using county number plate letters): * GS = Goslar (Lower Saxony) * HZ = Harz (Saxony-Anhalt) * MSH = Mansfeld-Südharz (Saxony-Anhalt) * OHA = Osterode am Harz (Lower Saxony) * NMH =

Nordhausen Nordhausen may refer to: * Nordhausen (district), a district in Thuringia, Germany ** Nordhausen, Thuringia, a city in the district **Nordhausen station, the railway station in the city * Nordhouse, a commune in Alsace (German: Nordhausen) * Narost ...

(Thuringia) Unincorporated areas (UA): * UA-GS = Harz UA in Goslar county * UA-OHA = Harz UA in Osterode am Harz county German states: * LS = Lower Saxony * S-A = Saxony-Anhalt * TH = Thuringia

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: * FRG = Federal Republic of Germany * GDR = German Democratic Republic * USSR = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics National parks * Harz NLP = Harz National Park

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s: * Harz NRP (LS) =

Harz Nature Park (Lower Saxony) The Harz (Lower Saxony) Nature Park (german: Naturpark Harz (Niedersachsen)) or just Harz Nature Park lies in the districts of Goslar and Göttingen (in the area of the former Osterode am Harz district) in South Lower Saxony. The nature park in the ...

* Harz/S-A NRP =

Harz/Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park The Harz/Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park (german: Naturpark Harz/Sachsen-Anhalt) is situated n the districts of Harz and Mansfeld-Südharz in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The nature park which lies in the Harz Mountains was founded in 2003 and has ...

* South Harz NRP =

South Harz Nature Park The South Harz Nature Park (german: Naturpark Südharz) is located in the county of Nordhausen in north Thuringia, Germany. The act designating this nature park in the Harz Mountains came into force on 31 December 2010Thüringer Verordnung ü ...

Special: * B = Bundesstraße i.e. federal road * BNM = Bundesnachrichtendienst, the Federal German Intelligence Service * BR = biosphere reserve * BW = Bundeswehr (FRG) * CD =

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* E = East rn* Ex = former * Gr = Große, Großer i.e. Great * GRU =

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* HS = hydropower station * IC = United States Intelligence Community * Kl = Kleine, Kleiner i.e. Small * L = Landesstraße i.e. state road * Mansfeld L. = Mansfeld Land * MfS =

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; GDR) * Mon = monument * N = north rn* NM = natural monument * NLP =

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* NNE = North-northeast rn* NRP =

* NR = nature reserve * OP =

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* OT = observation tower * PSF = Pumped storage facility * Rüdigsdorf S. = Rüdigsdorf Switzerland * S = Source (river) * S = South rn* s. a. = see also * UA = unincorporated area * WT = water tower * YH = youth hostel

References

Elevation of Brocken according to the article,
''Wie hoch ist der Brocken?''
at harzlife.de Elevations of various mountains and hills according to topographic map no. 4229. ''Braunlage'', TK25.

scale Scale or scales may refer to: Mathematics * Scale (descriptive set theory), an object defined on a set of points * Scale (ratio), the ratio of a linear dimension of a model to the corresponding dimension of the original * Scale factor, a number ...

= 1:25,000. Hrsg.: Landesamt für Geoinformation and Landentwicklung Lower Saxony (LGLN), 2010. Elevation of various mountains and hills according t
Saxony-Anhalt-Viewer
Elevation of various mountains and hills according to unknown / unverified source Elevation of – various mountains and hills according to ''Der Große Falk Atlas'' – ''Deutschland Detailkarten'', M = 1:200,000. 2004/2005. Elevation of various mountains and hills according to topographic map, TK25. no. 4328. Bad Lauterberg,

= 1:25,000. Elevation of various mountains and hills according to topographic ma
Übersichtskarte Harz
(DTK 25), at natur-erleben.niedersachsen.de Elevation of various mountains and hills according to th
Lower Saxony navigator
Elevation of ''Bocksberg'' according to ma

of the article ''Wanderparadies'' at erlebnisbocksberg.de Elevation of ''Stöberhai'' according t
Signposts on the summit
at mw2.google.com Erroneous hill name of ''Klappstept'' according to references in the Wikipedia article,

Kloppstert The Kloppstert is a hill, roughly 553 metres high, in the southwestern Harz in Lower Saxony, Germany. In the topographical map printed in 1978 it can only be made out with difficulty that the third letter is an ''o'' and the penultimate one a ...

, accessed on 27 July 2012 Elevation of – ''Pagelsburg'' according to ''Einzelnachweise'' of the Wikipedia-the articles

Pagelsburg The Pagelsburg is a hill in the Harz Mountains of central Germany, which lies south of Sieber in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. It is Measurement with a barometric altimeter using as a reference point the nearby point 523.0 m fro ...

, accessed on 27 July 2012 Elevation of – ''Kleiner Burgberg'' (Bad Harzburg), according to

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(M = 1:5,000. topographic map), Niedersächsisches Landesvermessungsamt, pub. by Georg Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig, 1976 Elevation of the ''Butterberg (Ilsenburg)'' according to the Wikipedia article, Butterberg, accessed on 27 July 2012 Elevation of the ''Stahlsberg'' (Ballenstedt-Opperode) according t
''Bismarck Tower, Ballenstedt''
at bismarcktuerme.de Felshöhen diverser Objekte der ''Teufelsmauer'' according to Wikipedia article,

Teufelsmauer The Teufelsmauer (''Devil's Wall'') is a rock formation made of hard sandstones of the Upper Cretaceous in the northern part of the Harz Foreland in central Germany. This wall of rock runs from Blankenburg (Harz) via Weddersleben and Rieder ...

, accessed on 27 July 2012 Elevation of various mountains and hills still unknown / still un-researched {{Mountains and hills by German state ! ! ! ! Harz

Mountains and hills of unknown elevation

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References