Harz Mountains

American  

[hahrts] / hɑrts /

plural noun

1. a range of low mountains in central Germany between the Elbe and Weser rivers. Highest peak, Brocken, 3,745 feet (1,141 meters).

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Example Sentences

Authorities said that a 46-year-old woman was fatally injured by a falling tree in the Harz mountains in northern Germany.

From Washington Times

It happened at a picnic in the Harz Mountains with Ernst Jünger, who “leaned over to pick up a sauerkraut and sausage roll, and his lederhosen split with a tremendous crack.”

From New York Times

But their influence is “stronger than the polls tell us,” said Boris Pistorius, the Social-Democratic interior minister for the state of Lower Saxony, whose capital is Hanover, this northwestern city where the Harz Mountains meet the German lowlands.

From Washington Post

His division was later stationed in the Netherlands, where Ciniero crossed the Rhine River and advanced to the Harz Mountains, the California National Guard's magazine, Grizzly, reported.

From Fox News

Ole Anders, who works on a project managing the park's small lynx population, said there had been discussions and debates about releasing the cats in the Harz mountains since the 1970s.

From BBC