Braakberg

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Braakberg
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Braakberg
West and north of Lonau in Göttingen district in Lower Saxony, Germany
Highest point
Elevation 645.5 m (2,118 ft)
Prominence 18.6 m  Auf dem Acker
Isolation 0.4 km  Auf dem Acker
Coordinates 51°42′42″N10°22′02″E / 51.7116°N 10.3673°E / 51.7116; 10.3673 Coordinates: 51°42′42″N10°22′02″E / 51.7116°N 10.3673°E / 51.7116; 10.3673
Geography
Location West and north of Lonau in Göttingen district in Lower Saxony, Germany
Parent range Harz Mountains

The Braakberg is a 645.5 metre high mountain in the Harz in central Germany that lies in the unincorporated area of Harz in the district of Göttingen in the state of Lower Saxony.

Harz Low mountain range in northern Germany

The Harz is a Mittelgebirge that has the highest elevations in Northern Germany and its rugged terrain extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia. The name Harz derives from the Middle High German word Hardt or Hart, Latinized as Hercynia. The Brocken is the highest summit in the Harz with an elevation of 1,141.1 metres (3,744 ft) above sea level. The Wurmberg is the highest peak located entirely within the state of Lower Saxony.

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Geography

Location

The Braakberg lies in the South Harz within the Harz National Park about 2.4 km north of Lonau. To the north it transitions into the ridge known as Auf dem Acker. The Braakberg forms the watershed between the streams of Große Steinau to the west and Kleine Lonau to the east.

Harz National Park national park of Germany

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 Ilsenburg on the northern slopes. 95 % of the area is covered with forests, mainly with spruce and beech woods, including several bogs, granite rocks and creeks. The park is part of the Natura 2000 network of the European Union.

Lonau is a small village with a population of about 345 situated at an elevation of about 400m in the Harz Mountains of Northern Germany. Besides the clean air and lush forests, it is famous for the capercaillie. It belongs to the city of Herzberg am Harz which is about 4 km to the south. The rivers Große Lonau and Kleine Lonau join here.

Auf dem Acker mountain

Auf dem Acker is a mountain ridge up to 865.1 metres high, which is located in the southwestern part of the Harz mountains in Lower Saxony (Germany).

Subpeak

The Kargeskopf and the Franzosenkopf are southern foothills of the Braakberg. In a wider sense the ridge running away to the southwest is also known as the Braakberg, especially its southern foothills west of Lonau which have a 512.1 m high sub-peak of the same name.: [1] (Coordinates: 51°41′43″N10°21′06″E / 51.6952°N 10.3518°E / 51.6952; 10.3518 (Braakberg) [2] )

Franzosenkopf (Harz) mountain

The Franzosenkopf is a 562 metre high hill in the Harz Mountains of central Germany, which lies about 1.4 kilometres northeast of Lonau in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. To the north of the Franzosenkopf is the Braakberg, a shallow saddle separating them. Flowing around the Franzosenkopf to the east and south is the Kleine Lonau in the valley of Mariental. To the west the Franzosenkopf is separated from the Kargeskopf hill by the Hackenstieltal valley.

Crags and rock formations

In the transition zone from the Braakberg to the Haspelkopf (ca. 749 m above NN), a high point in the southwestern area of the Auf dem Acker ridge, around 500 m north-northwest of the summit lie the crags of the Sophienklippe (max. ca. 650 m above NN;  51°42′56″N10°21′52″E / 51.7156°N 10.3644°E / 51.7156; 10.3644 ) and about 700 m northwest is the Spießerklippe (max. ca. 640 m above NN;  51°42′51″N10°21′31″E / 51.7142°N 10.3585°E / 51.7142; 10.3585 ) [3] .

Vegetation

The upper slopes of the mountain are covered in spruce, the very lowest with beech trees. It lies entirely within the Harz National Park.

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Übelsberg mountain

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Kleine Steinau river in Germany

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Große Steinau Sidestream of the river Sieber

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Koboltstaler Köpfe mountain

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Kleiner Knollen mountain in the Harz, Germany

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Kleiner Wurzelnberg mountain in the Harz, Germany

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Großer Wurzelnberg mountain in the Harz, Germany

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Adlersberg mountain next to Sieber in the Harz, Germany

The Adlersberg is a hill in the Harz mountains of central Germany that lies south of Sieber in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. It is 593.2 m high and is situated west of the Aschentalshalbe. It also separates the valley of Breitental with its river, the Tiefenbeek, from the Langental. To the northwest the Adlersberg transitions to the Kloppstert and the Fissenkenkopf hills. Other nearby peaks are the Pagelsburg 1.2 km south, the Höxterberg 1.6 km southwest and the Großer Knollen 1.9 km southeast.

Breitentalskopf mountain

The Breitentalskopf is a hill in the Harz Mountains of central Germany, that rises southeast of Sieber in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. It is 579.1 m high and separates the River Sieber from the Breitental valley, that gave the hill its name. Towards the southeast is the ridge of the Aschentalshalbe.

Eichelnkopf mountain

The Eichelnkopf is a 545.7 m (1,790 ft) high hill in the southwestern part of the Harz Mountains in the central German state of Lower Saxony.

Schadenbeeksköpfe mountain in the Harz, Germany

The Schadenbeeksköpfe are two summits on a southeastern outlier of the Aschentalshalbe in the Harz Mountains of Germany, about 3.6 kilometres southeast of Sieber in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. Their highest peak is 605 metres above sea level. In addition they separate the Schadenbeek stream, after which they were named, from the upper Krumme Lutter. About 1 kilometre east of the Schadenbeeksköpfe lies the Wolkenhügel Pit, in the valley of the Krumme Lutter, which closed in June 2007. A refuge hut not far from the Schadenbeeksköpfe is a checkpoint in the Harzer Wandernadel hiking badge system.

Höxterberg mountain in the Harz, Germany

The Höxterberg is a hill in the Harz Mountains of central Germany, that lies south of Sieber in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. It is 584 metres high and lie 0.9 kilometres west of the Pagelsburg, 1.5 kilometres south of the Fissenkenkopf, 1.8 km west of the Großer Knollen and 1 kilometre north of the Mittelecke. The hill is mostly covered by beech woods. Towards the northwest the Höxterberg transitions into the Steile Wand.

Kloppstert mountain

The Kloppstert is a hill, roughly 553 metres high, in the southwestern Harz in Lower Saxony, Germany. In the topographical map printed in 1978 it can only be made out with difficulty that the third letter is an o and the penultimate one an r. Unfortunately a contour line runs over the letter r so that it looks like a p. In the digitalised 1:25,000 topographic map, the hill is wrongly named as the Klappstept.

Pagelsburg mountain in Germany

The Pagelsburg is a hill in the Harz Mountains of central Germany, which lies south of Sieber in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. It is 545 m above sea level (NN) and lies 1.2 km south of the Adlersberg, 0.9 kilometres east of the Höxterberg and 1.0 kilometre northwest of the Großer Knollen.

Großer Mittelberg (Lonau) mountain

The Großer Mittelberg is a ridge in the Harz Mountains of Germany that begins immediately northeast of Lonau in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. It separates the valley of Kirchtal, through which the Große Lonau flows, from the Mariental and the Kleine Lonau. is Although it is the nearest subpeak to the village of Lonau, the Großer Mittelberg is, at 531 metres, not the highest point, but may be viewed as a main summit due to its prominent location. From here on, the ridge only climbs gently in a northeasterly direction and has several more subpeaks with small wind gaps. To the north the Großer Mittelberg transitions to the ridge of Auf dem Acker without any noticeable wind gap.

Heibeeksköpfe mountain

The Heibeeksköpfe in the Harz Mountains of central Germany are a double summit with a maximum height of 465.2 m above sea level (NN), near Bad Lauterberg in the unincorporated area of Harz in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony.

References

  1. Topographische Karte 1:25000, No. 4328 Bad Lauterberg im Harz
  2. Topographische Karte 1:25000, Nr. 4328 Bad Lauterberg im Harz
  3. Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation

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