This is the high­est point of the Harz Moun­tain (1141 m), where, accord­ing to leg­end, witch­es held a sab­bath on Walpur­gis Night. At the top, you can observe a nat­ur­al phe­nom­e­non of rare beau­ty and mys­tery — the Brock­en ghost. If you stand with your back to the set­ting sun, then a large shad­ow will appear on the sur­face of the clouds or in the fog with an iri­des­cent halo around the head. Some­times there is even a feel­ing that the “ghost” is mov­ing. The phe­nom­e­non was first described by Johann Sil­ber­schlag in 1780 and has since been men­tioned more than once in the lit­er­a­ture on the Harz moun­tains.