Today, it may only be visited with permission from the national park authority for the purposes of research or controlling the wildlife population.

The Heinrichshöhe lies in the Harz National Park about 3.2 kilometres north-northwest of the village of Schierke in the southwestern part of the borough of Wernigerode.

[3] The mountain was named after Count Henry Ernest (Heinrich Ernst) of Stolberg-Wernigerode, who had a peatworks established on the Heinrichshöhe in 1747.

It was first mentioned in the records in 1591 and ran roughly parallel to the present day Brocken Road.

In the First World War a Ski monument (Skidenkmal) was built alongside the track, not far from the Brockenteich.