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Blankenburg am Harz
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| Blankenburg am Harz | |
| Coat of arms | Location |
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| Administration | |
| Country |  Germany |
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| State | Saxony-Anhalt |
| District | Harz |
| Municipal assoc. | Blankenburg |
| Town subdivisions | 6 Ortsteile |
| Mayor | Frank Schade (CDU) |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 45.23 km² (17.5 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 288 m (945 ft) |
| Population | 15,553 (31/12/2006) |
| - Density | 344 /km² (891 /sq mi) |
| Other information | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | HZ |
| Postal code | 38889 |
| Area code | 03944 |
Blankenburg am Harz 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 by rail southwest from Halberstadt. It has been in large part rebuilt since a fire in 1836, and possesses a castle, with various collections, a museum of antiquities, an old town hall and churches. There are pine-needle baths and a hospital for nervous diseases. Gardening is a speciality. In the vicinity is a cliff or ridge of rock called Teufelsmauer (Devils Wall), from which fine views are obtained across the plain and into the deep gorges of the Harz Mountains.
Blankenburg is the seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") Blankenburg.
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
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 Holy Roman Empire – Lower Saxon Circle (1500–1806) |
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| Ecclesiastical princes | Bremen* | Halberstadt* | Hildesheim | Lübeck | Magdeburg* | Ratzeburg (until 1701) | Schwerin* |
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| Secular princes | Bremen† | Brunswick: Blankenburg (until 1731), Calenberg‡, Celle, Grubenhagen‡, Lüneburg‡, Wolfenbüttel | Holstein: Glückstadt, Gottorp | Mecklenburg: Güstrow (until 1695), Schwerin, Strelitz | Rantzau (until 1734) | Regenstein | Saxe-Lauenburg‡ | |
| Imperial cities | Bremen | Goslar | Hamburg | Lübeck | Mühlhausen | Nordhausen | |
| * until 1648 † from 1648 ‡ until 1705 | ||