The Großer Burgberg is a ca. high

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on the northern rim of the

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mountains range, right on the edge of Bad Harzburg in

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Geography

It is situated east of the valley of the Radau River, where it leaves the Harz range and flows through the northern foothills towards its confluence with the Oker. The southern outskirts of Bad Harzburg reach up to the foot of the forested slopes. Bad Harzburg 2008 PD 05

North of the Großer Burgberg summit is the Kleiner Burgberg spur at . Both peaks offer sweeping views over the town and the

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. On the Burgberg plateau are foundations of medieval

Harzburg The Harzburg, also called Große Harzburg ("Great Harz Castle"), is a former imperial castle, situated on the northwestern edge of the Harz mountain range overlooking the spa resort of Bad Harzburg in Goslar District in the state of Lower Saxony ...

Castle and the

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Column at , erected in 1877 in the honour of Chancellor

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. Since 1929 the

Burgberg Cable Car The Burgberg Cable Car (german: Burgbergseilbahn) is a cable car in Bad Harzburg, Germany. It was built in 1929 by the Bleichert Bleichert, short for Adolf Bleichert & Co., was a German engineering firm founded in 1874 by Adolf Bleichert. T ...

runs up to the summit from the Radau River and the B 4 federal road.

External links

Website of Bad Harzburg
Hills of Lower Saxony Hills of the Harz Bad Harzburg {{goslar-geo-stub