Brockenbahn

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Harzquerbahn and Brockenbahn

Legend Wernigerode Wernigerode Westentor Wernigerode Kirchstrasse Wernigerode-Hasserode Steinerne Renne Brocken Schierke Drei Annen Hohne Elend Sorge Benneckenstein Sophienhof Tiefenbachmühle Selketalbahn to Stiege Eisfelder Talmühle Netzkater Ilfeld Bad Ilfeld Neanderklinik Ilfeld Ilfeld Schreiberwiese Niedersachswerfen Ilfelder Strasse Niedersachswerfen Ost Niedersachswerfen Herkulesmarkt Nordhausen Krimderode Nordhausen Ricarda-Huch-Strasse Nordhausen Altentor Nordhausen Hesseröder Strasse Nordhausen Nord

The Brockenbahn is one of three metre gauge railways which together the the Harzquerbahn and Selketalbahn comprise the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen narrow gauge railway network in the Harz Mountains region of Germany.

It runs from the town of Drei Annen Hohne, where it joins the Harzquerbahn, to the summit of Brocken, the highest mountain in this part of the country at 1141 metres. During the Cold War era, the mountain was off-limits to non-military personnel, but since the reunification of East and West Germany and subsequent re-opening of the line, it has become extremely popular, and carries thousands of tourists to the summit every year.

[edit] Further reading

• Speakman, Fleur and Colin, (1994), Walking in the Harz mountains - including walks from the Harz narrow gauge railway, Cicerone Press, Milnthorpe, Cumbria, ISBN 1-85284-149-4.

[edit] External links

• Website, in German only, [1]

• Information about HSB locomotives (in English)