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Blankenburg
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town in the district of Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Saxony-Anhalt
- District
- Harz
- Mayor 2022 29
- Heiko Breithaupt ( CDU )
- Total
- 148.94 km (57.51 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 288 m (945 ft)
- Density
- 127.4/km (329.9/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Dialling codes
- 03944
- Vehicle registration
- HZ
- Website
- http://www.blankenburg.de
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Blankenburg (Harz) ( German pronunciation: [ˈblaŋkn̩bʊʁk]) is a town and health resort in the district of Harz in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, at the north foot of the Harz Mountains, 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Halberstadt.
It has been largely rebuilt since an 1836 fire, and possesses a castle with various collections, a museum of antiquities, an old town hall and churches. There are pine-needle baths and a psychiatric hospital. The nearby ridge of rocks called the Teufelsmauer ('Devil's Wall') offers views across the plain and into the deep gorges of the Harz.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blankenburg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.