Bad Lauterberg

Bad Lauterberg
Bad Lauterberg
Town
	General view of the town
	Coat of arms
	Location of Bad Lauterberg within Göttingen district
	Bad Lauterberg Bad Lauterberg
	Coordinates: 51°37′54″N 10°28′14″E / 51.63167°N 10.47056°E
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Göttingen
Subdivisions	4 districts
Government
• Mayor (2021–26)	Rolf Lange (CDU)
Area
• Total	41.54 km2 (16.04 sq mi)
Elevation	296 m (971 ft)
Population (2021-12-31)
• Total	10,290
• Density	250/km2 (640/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	37431
Dialling codes	05524
Vehicle registration	GÖ, OHA
Website	www.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[edit]

Town council[edit]

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[edit]

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]