Bad Lauterberg

Place in Lower Saxony, Germany

Town in Lower Saxony, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Bad Lauterberg within Göttingen district

(2021–26) Rolf Lange^[1] (CDU)Area

• Total41.54 km² (16.04 sq mi)Elevation

296 m (971 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[2]

• Total10,297 • Density250/km² (640/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

37431

Dialling codes05524Vehicle registrationGÖ, OHAWebsitewww.badlauterberg.de

Bad Lauterberg is a town in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the southern Harz, approx. 15 km southwest of Braunlage, and 20 km southeast of Osterode am Harz.

Bad Lauterberg is known inter alia for the liqueurs, Schierker Feuerstein and Harzer Grubenlicht, which are both manufactured and bottled here.

Bad Lauterberg was the birthplace (1879) of the Polar explorer Alfred Ritscher.

Politics

Town council

Town Council after the local elections on September 11, 2016:

CDU: 6 seats
Wählergruppe: 5 seats
SPD: 5 seats
BI: 2 seats
Bündnis 90/Die Grünen: 1 seats
NPD: 1 seat

Sights

About a mile east of the town in the mountains is the viewing point of Hohe Tür which is by a mountain lake and on the main Weser-Elbe watershed. It is checkpoint 43 in the Harzer Wandernadel hiking network.^[3]

Notable people

Alfred Ritscher (1879-1963), captain and Arctic explorer
Eberhard Umbach (born 1948), German physicist and science manager
Bibiana Steinhaus (born 1979), football referee
Tino Schmidt (born 1993), football player, played over 220 games

References

^ "Stichwahlen zu Direktwahlen in Niedersachsen vom 26. September 2021" (PDF). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen. 13 October 2021.
^ "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.
^ Stempelstelle 43 / Wasserscheide Weser-Elbe „Hohe Tür“ at www.harzer-wandernadel.de. Retrieved 1 Nov 2017.