BROCKEN

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BROCKEN , a mountain of Germany, in Prussian Saxony, the highest point (3733 ft.) of the Harz. It is a huge, bare, granite-strewn,

dome

DOME (Lat domus,
house
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
; Ital. duomo, cathedral)

-shaped mass and, owing to its being the greatest

elevation

ELEVATION

in north Germany, commands magnificent views in all directions. From it Magdeburg and the Elbe, the towers of

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

and the Thuringian forest are distinctly visible in clear weather. Access to the summit is attained by a mountain railway (12 m.) from Dreiannen-Hohne, a station on the normal gauge line Wernigerode-Nordhausen, and by two carriage roads from the Bodetal and

Ilsenburg

ILSENBURG

respectively. In the folk-

lore

LORE
LORE, AMBROISE DE (1396-1446)

of north Germany the Brocken holds an important place, and to it cling many legends. Long after Christianity had penetrated to these regions, the Brocken remained a place of heathen

worship

WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

. Annually, on Walpurgis night (1st of May), curious rites were here enacted, which, condemned by the priests of the Christian church, led to the belief that the devil and witches here held their orgies. Even to this day, this superstition possesses the minds of many country people around, who believe the mountain to be haunted on this night. In literature
it is represented by the famous "Brocken scene " in Goethe's Faust.
See

Jacobs

JACOBS, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1764-1847)

, Der Brocken in Geschichte and Sage (

Halle

, 1878) ; and Prohle, Brockensagen (Magdeburg, 1888).

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