Bad Grund (Harz) is a town in the district of Göttingen, in

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. It is situated in the western

Harz The Harz () is a highland area in northern Germany. It has the highest elevations for that region, and its rugged terrain extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia. The name ''Harz'' derives from the Middle High German ...

, approx. 7 km west of

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, and 10 km north of

Osterode am Harz Osterode am Harz, often simply called Osterode (; Eastphalian dialect, Eastphalian: ''Ostroe''), is a town in south-eastern Lower Saxony, Niedersachsen on the south-western edge of the Harz mountains. It was the seat of government of the Landkr ...

. Bad Grund is also the name of the former ''

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'' ("collective municipality")

Bad Grund Bad Grund (Harz) is a town in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the western Harz, approx. 7 km west of Clausthal-Zellerfeld, and 10 km north of Osterode am Harz. Bad Grund is also the name of the ...

, of which Bad Grund formed part. It was disbanded in March 2013 and replaced by the ''Einheitsgemeinde'' Bad Grund. BadGrund2

Points of interest

* Historic Market Place * St. Antony's Church was built in 1540. The church is surrounded by half-timbered houses dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries

G. Ulrich Großmann Georg Ulrich Großmann (29 November 1953) is a German art historian. He was general director of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. Life Born in Marburg, Großmann studied art history, European ethnology and Christian archaeology at ...

: ''Hannover und Südniedersachsen'', p. 189. Köln 1999. * WeltWald Harz * Hübichenstein * Hilfe Gottes Mine * Iberger Tropfsteinhöhle

References

Towns in the Harz Spa towns in Germany {{Göttingen-geo-stub