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14-595: 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 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

28-404: 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 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

42-678: A level going through an imaginary point 37.000 m below Normalhöhenpunkt 1879 . When the New Berlin Observatory was demolished in 1912 the reference point was moved east to the village of Hoppegarten (now part of the town of Müncheberg , Brandenburg , Germany ). This cartography or mapping term article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 52°30′12″N 13°23′35″E  /  52.5034°N 13.3930°E  / 52.5034; 13.3930 Language island A language island (a calque of German Sprachinsel ; also language enclave , language pocket )

56-578: 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 the other hand that the new region had never belonged to the Upper Harz, but was part of the Lower Harz. Normalnull Normalnull ("standard zero") or Normal-Null (short N. N. or NN )

70-559: 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 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

84-688: Is an outdated official vertical datum used in Germany. Elevations using this reference system were to be marked Meter über Normal-Null (“meters above standard zero”). Normalnull has been replaced by Normalhöhennull (NHN). In 1878 reference heights were taken from the Amsterdam Ordnance Datum and transferred to the New Berlin Observatory in order to define the Normalhöhenpunkt 1879 . Normalnull has been defined as

98-579: 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 the Lower Saxon, Eastphalian and Thuringian dialects of its surround area, this is an Erzgebirgisch dialect that goes back to the settlement in

112-476: 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 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

126-427: 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 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

140-538: 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 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

154-402: 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 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

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168-496: 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 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

182-631: 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, 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

196-601: 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 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

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