Upper Harz (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Upper Harz (German: Oberharz) refers to the western and higher part of the Harz mountain range in central Germany. Much of the Upper Harz is over 800 m above sea level, but at its eastern edge in the High Harz (Hochharz) it climbs to over 1,100 m on the Brocken massif.The exact location of the Upper Harz may be defined differently depending on the context. In its narrower sense the term Upper Harz only covers the seven Upper Harz mining towns (Bergst dte) - Clausthal, Zellerfeld, Andreasberg, Altenau, Lautenthal, Wildemann and Grund - in the present-day German federal state of Lower Saxony. This region was, for centuries, dominated by the hugely profitable silver mining industry and is also distinguished by its own dialect (see below). It is based, therefore, primarily on the geological structure of the region around Clausthal-Zellerfeld, the Clausthal Kulmfaltenzone, extends across the northwestern Harz and is bordered in the east by the S se depression and the Acker-Bruchberg ridge.