The Renneckenberg (formerly ''Rennekenberg'') is a mountain, roughly high, in the High Harz part of the

Harz The Harz () is a highland area in northern Germany. It has the highest elevations for that region, and its rugged terrain extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia. The name ''Harz'' derives from the Middle High German ...

mountain range of central

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within the borough of

Wernigerode Wernigerode () is a town in the district of Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Until 2007, it was the capital of the district of Wernigerode. Its population was 35,041 in 2012. Wernigerode is located southwest of Halberstadt, and is picturesquely s ...

in the state of

Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making it th ...

Location

The Renneckenberg lies in the Harz/Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park and the

Harz National Park Harz National Park is a nature reserve in the German federal states of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. It comprises portions of the western Harz mountain range, extending from Herzberg and Bad Lauterberg at the southern edge to Bad Harzburg and ...

just under 3 kilometres north of the village of

Schierke Schierke is a village and a former municipality in the Harz district, in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1 July 2009, it is part of the town Wernigerode. Situated within the Harz mountain range in the valley of the river Bode, at the rim ...

in the borough of Wernigerode. Its summit rises about 300 metres east of the ''

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'' (county road), the K 1356 or ''Brockenstraße'', that runs from Schierke up to the highest mountain in the Harz, the

Brocken The Brocken, also sometimes referred to as the Blocksberg, is the highest peak in the Harz mountain range and also the highest peak in Northern Germany; it is near Schierke in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt between the rivers Weser and El ...

(1141.1 m). The Renneckenberg runs as a ridge from the '' Zeterklippen'' crags (max. ca. 830 m) in the northwest to the '' Kapellenklippe'' (ca. 910 m) in the southeast. Towards the north-northwest the mountainsides of the Renneckenberg descend into the valley of the River Ilse; towards the northeast they lead towards the Hoher Wand (758 m) and the ''Ohrenklippen'' crags; and towards the east they drop into the valley

Holtemme The Holtemme is a long tributary of the river Bode in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It rises in the Harz mountains at the eastern foot of the Brocken, descends during its upper course as the Steinerne Renne, a steep stream bed riddled with granite ...

which rises on the mountain in the area where it transitions to the

Hohnekamm The ''Hohnekamm'' or ''Hohne Kamm'' is a mountain ridge up to high in the Harz mountains of central Germany. It is located in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, and is well known for its rock towers or tors, the ''Hohneklippen''. Location and surro ...

(900.6 m, with its ''Hohneklippen'') to the south-southeast. Towards the south the terrain descends into the valley of the

Cold Bode The Kalte Bode is the left-hand headstream of the Bode in the High Harz Mountains in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is long. Name The names of the Warme and Kalte Bode ("Warm" and "Cold" Bode) come from their actual temperature differenc ...

and the village of Schierke. To the west-southwest there is a

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(900.6 m) on the K 1356 which links to the

Heinrichshöhe The Heinrichshöhe is a subsidiary peak of the highest mountain in the Harz, the Brocken, and, at , it is the second summit in the Harz Mountains. Today, it may only be visited with permission from the national park authority for the purposes o ...

(ca. 1045 m). To the west the countryside runs across to the Brocken via the ''Brockenbett'' through which the upper reaches of the Ilse flow.

Description

On the forested Renneckenberg there are many rock formations - apart from the aforementioned ''Zeterklippen'' and ''Kapellenkind'' - that, apart from the ''Brockenkinder'' ("Brocken children", ca. 905 m), are unnamed. West of the summit in the direction of the K 1356 and about 912 metres high is the ski hut of the Wernigerode Ski Club. At the southern end of the Renneckenberg where it transitions to the ''Brockenbett'', the valley between the

and the

to the west and the Renneckenberg to the east, on the K 1356, is the ''Gelber Brink'' (900.6 m) which is no. 22 in the system of checkpoints in the

Harzer Wandernadel The Harzer Wandernadel is a system of hiking awards in the Harz mountains in central Germany. The hiker (or mountain biker) can earn awards at different levels of challenge by walking to the various checkpoints in the network and stamping his or ...

hiking scheme.

Height

Whilst the height of the Renneckenberg is usually given as 933 metres above

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(southern top), the last contour line below the summit on the maps is 930 m. The northern top of the mountain is 929.7 metres above sea level.{{GeoQuelle, DE, BFN-Karten

References

Harzer Wandernadel
Stempelstelle 22 – ''Gelber Brink''
at harzer-wandernadel.de Mountains of the Harz Mountains and hills of Saxony-Anhalt