Stecklenberg is a village and a former municipality in the
district of Harz, in
Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of
and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making it the ...
,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. Since 23 November 2009, it is part of the town
Thale.
Sights
The ''Glockenstein'' is a granite block in the shape of a bell that was probably used in prehistoric times as an
Old Germanic
Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Proto-Germanic eventually developed from pre-Proto-Germanic into three Germanic bran ...
cult site. Today it is checkpoint 73 on the
Harzer Wandernadel hiking network.
''Stempelstelle 73 / Glockenstein''
at www.harzer-wandernadel.de. Retrieved 1 Nov 2017.
References
Former municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt
Thale
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