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20-696: The Ilsestein is located in the Oberharz inside the Harz/Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park within the Harz National Park , the park boundary running along the forest track immediately east of the rock formation. Its summit is 473.2 m above  sea level (NHN) and rises about 130 to 150 metres above the Ilse river. It is located about 2 km (1.2 mi) south-southwest of the centre of Ilsenburg. From toporgraphical maps it can be seen that there

40-605: Is a fork in the track to the northeast and just below the rocks at 315.5 m above NN and a waypoint on the same track next to the Gasthaus Ilsestein at 465.6 m above NN . Around 1000 AD, a small counter-castle was erected on the Ilsestein immediately after the conversion of the former Saxon fortress of Elysynaburg into Ilsenburg Abbey by the Bishops of Halberstadt . After about hundred years, it

60-469: Is also distinguished by its own dialect (see below). The mining area of Sankt Andreasberg occupies a special place in this regard, because it is just east of the Bruchberg. The mines , more than anything else, have left a lasting impression on the region and left their traces in the towns and villages as well as the countryside (see e.g. Upper Harz Water Regale ). Clausthal-Zellerfeld was known as "Capital of

80-608: Is centred on the geological structure of the region around the municipality of Clausthal-Zellerfeld, merged in 1924. From the Clausthal Kulmfaltenzone , it extends to the western and northern rim of the Harz and is bordered in the southeast by the Acker - Bruchberg ridge beyond the Söse valley. The Upper Harz was, for centuries, dominated by the hugely profitable silver mining industry and

100-658: Is that region west of the Bruchberge with mineral lodes in Devonian and Carboniferous mountains, which are divided into specific groups or seams. Another division into Upper and Lower Harz is based on the function of the Harz as a natural watershed . On this basis "by taking the Brocken as the mid-point, the Upper Harz includes everything to the west of it; the Lower Harz everything lying to

120-575: Is the northwestern and higher part of the Harz mountain range in Germany . The exact boundaries of this geographical region may be defined differently depending on the context. In its traditional sense, the term Upper Harz covers the area of the seven historical mining towns ( Bergstädte ) - Clausthal , Zellerfeld , Andreasberg , Altenau , Lautenthal , Wildemann and Grund - in the present-day German federal state of Lower Saxony . Orographically, it comprises

140-499: The Harz catchment areas of the Söse , Innerste and Grane , Oker and Abzucht mountain streams, all part of the larger Weser watershed. Much of the Upper Harz area is up to 700 metres (2,300 ft) above sea level . In a wider sense, it also comprises the adjacent High Harz ( Hochharz ) range in the east, climbing to over 1,100 m (3,600 ft) in the Brocken massif. The region

160-561: The Lower Saxon, Eastphalian and Thuringian dialects of its surround area, this is an Erzgebirgisch dialect that goes back to the settlement in the area of mining folk from the Ore Mountains of Saxony in the 16th century. The Upper Harz dialect is restricted to only a few places and so forms something of a language island in the Harz. The best known are Altenau, Sankt Andreasberg, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Lautenthal and Hahnenklee. Today

180-429: The Upper Harz" in the heyday of the mining industry. It was also the administrative seat of the former Samtgemeinde ('collective municipality') of Oberharz . The part of the mountain range lying west of the Brocken described in a geographical sense as the Upper Harz is divided from a miner's and ironworker's perspective into the Upper Harz ( Oberharz ), i.e. the plateau of Clausthal, with this town and Zellerfeld and

200-461: The Upper Harz". This definition extends the montane Upper Harz eastwards roughly to the state border with Saxony-Anhalt , so that e.g. Braunlage or Hohegeiß may also be counted as lying within the Upper Harz, as well as some high mountain ridges: The Upper Harz includes the plateaus of Clausthal and Andreasberg, some 2,000 feet high, and the ridges and peaks of the so-called Ackerberg, Bruchberg and Brocken which are almost twice as high […] To

220-483: The dialect is rarely heard in everyday life in the Upper Harz. It is mainly members of the older generations that still speak it; as a result it is maintained in the newspapers. For example, there are occasionally articles published in the Upper Harz dialect in the local section of the Goslarsche Zeitung . To illustrate the dialect here is the refrain of a Sankt Andreasberg folk song: The town of Elbingerode and

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240-434: The east it transitions to the less prominent Lower Harz which descends gently eastwards. The High Harz ( Hochharz ) refers to the only sparsely populated region around the Brocken (1,141 m), Bruchberg, Wurmberg , Torfhaus and Acker, which lie above 800 m. The High Harz therefore includes most of the Harz National Park . One feature of the Upper Harz is, or was, the Upper Harz dialect ( Oberharzer Mundart ). Unlike

260-503: The east. […] All that drains from the western mountains belongs to the catchment area of the Weser , all that drains from those in the east, to that of the Elbe ". Heinrich Heine also used the Brocken as the dividing line in his book Die Harzreise ("The Harz Journey") in 1824 and remarked that the "Lower Harz, as the eastern side of the Brocken is called, as opposed to its western side, […] called

280-493: The location of a haunted forest. There are several legends around a maid Ilse and one Duke Henry, which authors like Heinrich Pröhle , Otto Roquette and others wrote down. On 18 October 1814, one year after the Battle of Möckern on the first day of the Battle of Leipzig , Count Anton of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1785–1854) had an iron cross erected on the summit. The count had served as adjutant of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and

300-582: The mining towns of Altenau, Lautenthal, Wildemann, Grund and Andreasberg, and the communion of the Lower Harz, i.e. the Rammelsberg near Goslar and the ironworks that process its ore, and which lie on the northern foothills of the mountains near Ocker , Langelsheim etc. […] The actual Upper Harz, now part of the Prussian state and forming the district ( Bezirk ) of the Clausthal Mining Department,

320-583: The monument commemorates his comrades who fell in the German campaign of the Napoleonic Wars. For the centenary of the Möckern battle, on 18 October 1913, a memorial plaque was unveiled here in the presence of Prince Christian Ernest of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1864–1940) with an explanation of the origin of the 1814 iron cross. From the summit of the Ilsestein the view extends to the nearby Brocken , which rises to

340-520: The municipalities of Brocken-Hochharz in the district of Harz decided to merge on 1 January 2010, as part of regional reforms in Saxony-Anhalt, into a new town with the name 'Oberharz am Brocken'. There were major protests against this name in the borough of Oberharz in Lower Saxony. The reasons were that, on the one hand, there was a significant risk of confusion by having two similar names, and on

360-482: The other hand that the new region had never belonged to the Upper Harz, but was part of the Lower Harz. Mining town A mining community , also known as a mining town or a mining camp , is a community that houses miners . Mining communities are usually created around a mine or a quarry . Austrian Lands Lower Hungarian mining towns Upper Hungarian mining towns Other Hungarian mining towns (Listed under names given when founded or working as

380-651: The southwest, into the Ilse valley with its surrounding mountains and to the north to Ilsenburg and the Harz Foreland . The pub, Gasthaus Ilsestein , re-opened in 2016 and is checkpoint No. 30 in the Harzer Wandernadel hiking network. [REDACTED] Media related to Ilsestein at Wikimedia Commons 51°50′49.5″N 10°39′41″E  /  51.847083°N 10.66139°E  / 51.847083; 10.66139 Oberharz The Upper Harz ( German : Oberharz , pronounced [ˈoːbɐhaːɐ̯ts] )

400-709: Was destroyed around 1107, nevertheless its layout could be reconstructed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe mentions the Ilsestein in the Walpurgisnacht scene in his drama, Faust I , and again, together with the Heinrichshöhe and Schnarcherklippen , in Faust ;II . Heinrich Heine described how he climbed the Ilsestein in his 1826 book, Die Harzreise ( The Harz Journey ). Engelbert Humperdinck 's opera Hansel and Gretel mentions an Ilsenstein as

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