Brockenhaus (Brocken)
The Brockenhaus is a building on the summit of the Brocken in the Harz Mountains in Saxony-Anhalt . It serves as the Harz National Park's visitor center and museum.
History and exhibition
Since 1800, many built on the Brocken buildings were called Brockenhaus from which ultimately the Second World War destroyed Brockenhotel emerged. Today's three-storey second-hand store was built in 1983 and served as a listening system for the Ministry for State Security of the GDR . Due to the distinctive, widely visible dome erected on the house for eavesdropping technology , the building was popularly known as the “Brocken Mosque ” or “ Stasi Mosque ”.
After the Brocken summit was again open to the public on December 3, 1989, Brocken landlord Hans Steinhoff opened the Café Hexenklause in the building . On June 1, 1993, the previously provisionally operated Brocken Museum was relocated to the Brockenhaus. The museum was founded on June 1, 1991 as part of the Wernigerode Harz Museum in an old, non-heatable, later demolished radome and counted around 125,000 visitors annually. There it showed information on the Brocken nature on display boards, but also eavesdropping technology and the oldest piece of track on the Brocken Railway . After the move, the museum occupied one floor of the second-hand store. The museum director was Gerd Borchert. The exhibition was expanded and dealt with the history of the Brocken, the development of the national park and the Brocken mysticism with its devils and witches.
In August 1998, the renovation of the house began, which had already been announced in 1993. The inauguration of today's museum took place in June 2000. During the renovation, the building was given a glass extension extending over all three floors. Part of the museum are the historical antenna systems that are preserved in the dome and can be visited. The roof of the Brockenhaus is also accessible. A café was also set up. A modern exhibition, which has been expanded again, was set up in the exhibition rooms. A non-profit society founded by the state of Saxony-Anhalt and the district of Wernigerode acts as the sponsor of the museum .
The second-hand store is integrated into the Harz hiking pin system as stamp number 9 . There is also a mountain rescue first aid station in the house.
literature
- Eberhard Löblich: Picked up on the way to the summit, stories along the Brocken Path. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2001, ISBN 3-89812-055-4 , p. 89 ff.
- Thorsten Schmidt , Jürgen Korsch: The Brocken. Mountain between nature and technology. 5th edition. Schmidt-Buch-Verlag, Wernigerode 2006, ISBN 3-928977-59-8 , p. 61.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ object URIAN - listening station chunks. Retrieved April 30, 2019.
Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 1.7 ″ N , 10 ° 36 ′ 56.7 ″ E