At the beginning of your hike, we recommend a visit to the TorfHaus National Park Visitor Center. Here you will learn a lot about the region and the Harz National Park. A tour of the exhibition will show you what to expect on your trip to the Brocken and will prepare you for the unique landscape.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe also set out on his first ascent of the Brocken on December 10, 1777, accompanied by the forester Degen from Torfhaus. The hike through difficult terrain in deep snow made a lasting impression on the poet. The exact route that Goethe took at that time can no longer be reconstructed today.
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