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Torfhaus
Sign in to saveTorfhaus is a village in the borough of the mining town of Altenau in the Harz mountains of Germany and lies at a height of about . It is the highest settlement in Lower Saxony.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- Torfhaus
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Clausthal-Zellerfeld
- Elevation
- 800
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.altenau.de/web/altenau-region/torfhaus/index.html
- Image
- Torfhaus.jpg
- Dialing code
- 05320
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- postal code
- 38667
- Commons category
- Torfhaus
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Tourism and sport
- Geschichte
- Sendeanlagen
- Nationalpark-Denkmal
- References
Torfhaus is a village in the borough of the mining town of Altenau in the Harz mountains of Germany and lies at a height of about . It is the highest settlement in Lower Saxony.
This small settlement consists mainly of restaurants, youth hostels, ski huts and large car parks. A resort area with hotel and cabins was built in 2012/2013. The B 4 federal road, which is a major traffic route, runs from Brunswick to the north via Torfhaus to Braunlage and on into the South and East Harz.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Torfhaus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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