Bremen Hut (Ilsenburg)

It stands in the Ilse valley near the Upper Ilse Falls (Obere Ilsefälle) about halfway as the crow flies between the town of Ilsenburg to the north-northwest, which lies on the northern rim of the Harz, and the Brocken to the south-southwest, at 1,141.1 metres above sea level the highest mountain in the Harz.

To the west is the Scharfenstein (697.6 m) and to the east is the forest inn of Plessenburg (ca.

The hut itself is found at an elevation of 530 metres above sea level (NN).

[2] The Heinrich Heine Trail (Heinrich-Heine-Wanderweg) runs past the Bremen Hut heading for the legendary Brocken mountain.

[2] Immediately northeast of a fork in the tracks 1.1 kilometres south-southwest of the Bremen Hut by the Ilse tributary, the Keelbeck, (637.7 m above NN;[1] 51°49′9.6″N 10°37′40.5″E / 51.819333°N 10.627917°E / 51.819333; 10.627917) once stood a mighty beech tree called the Stempelsbuche.