Stöberhai

The Stöberhai is a mountain the Harz highlands in Central Germany, immediately south of the Oder Dam and northwest of Wieda. At a height of it is the highest mountain in the South Harz. The origin of the name is uncertain, but it is suggested, that a charcoal burner called Stöber may have had his charcoal store (Hai) here.

== Etymology == The origin of the name Stöberhai is not documented. It may have been that a charcoal burner named Stöber had his Hai here, which in the Harz Mountains referred to the charcoal burner's site in the forest. The term is derived from Hain (grove, which also coincides with the previously attested use of the Stöberhai as a forest clearing. A guide of the climatic health resort of Wieda in 1931 still recognises an "Upper Hai" on the mountain with a view of Hohegeiss. Attempts were made by the former master forester (Forstmeister) of Wieda, Stein, to prove the existence of a charcoal burner called Stöber, based on old documents and researching the neighbouring Prussian forestry departments, were unsuccessful.