BROCKEN, a mountain of Germany, in Prussian Saxony, the highest point (3,733ft.) of the Harz, and indeed of north Ger many. Its huge, granite-strewn dome commands magnificent views in all directions; to Magdeburg and the Elbe, Leipzig and the Thuringian forest. A mountain railway (12m.) gives access to the summit. In the folk-lore of north Germany the Brocken holds an important place, and long after the introduction of Christianity traditional rites continued to be enacted here annually on Walpurgis night (May I). In literature it is represented in the famous "Brocken scene" in Goethe's Faust.