Brockenlauf
The Brockenlauf is a mountain run over 26 kilometers that has been held annually (with interruptions) in Ilsenburg since 1927 . Further competitions are a 9.6 km run, a 3.9 km run and a 1.8 km run. The event achieved numbers of several hundred participants. In 2001 it had 400 participants.
route
The route is a circular course, where the 1141.2 m above sea level. NHN high Brocken has to be conquered. Start and finish are on the Ilsenburg market square. A total of 890 meters of altitude has to be overcome on the route .
history
The Brocken Run was initiated as a 20 km run in 1927 by Otto Schulze from Ilsenburg , together with the Ilsenburg Sports Association in 1924. Despite great skepticism on the part of the public as to whether the runners would even be able to cope with this demanding route, the first event started on June 12, 1927. Otto Schulze was the winner of the first run in 1 hour 41 minutes 13 seconds. After the thirteenth Brocken run in 1939, the first interruption in the history of the run took place with the outbreak of the Second World War . In 1954 the competition could be resumed despite great resistance (the Brocken was in the restricted area and protective strip of the GDR ). The next forced break was from 1961 to 1989 when the border between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR was closed. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the race was resumed the following year and has taken place without interruption ever since.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brockenlauf: Peter Teutloff ran under two hours. In: mz-web.de. September 3, 2001, Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
- ↑ The Brocken Run - an (un) interrupted story ( Memento from May 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive )