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Brocken

Brocken (brôk'un) [key], granite peak, 3,747 ft (1,142 m) high, central Germany; highest peak of the Harz Mts. Popular legend makes it the meeting place of the Walpurgis Night or Witches' Sabbath. The “Brocken scene” in Goethe's Faust is set there.

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