Kelbra () is a town the
Mansfeld-Südharz district, in
Saxony-Anhalt,
Germany. It is situated north of the
Kyffhäuser mountains, approx. 20 km west of
Sangerhausen, and 20 km east of
Nordhausen Nordhausen may refer to:
* Nordhausen (district), a district in Thuringia, Germany
** Nordhausen, Thuringia, a city in the district
**Nordhausen station, the railway station in the city
* Nordhouse, a commune in Alsace (German: Nordhausen)
* Narost ...
. Kelbra is part of the ''
Verbandsgemeinde''
Goldene Aue.
Kelbra lies on the northern slopes of the
Kyffhäuser mountains in the
Goldene Aue. The
B 85 federal road starts in the neighbouring village of Berga and runs through Kelbra over the Kyffhäuser to
Passau
Passau (; bar, label=Central Bavarian, Båssa) is a city in Lower Bavaria, Germany, also known as the Dreiflüssestadt ("City of Three Rivers") as the river Danube is joined by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north.
Passau's popu ...
.
Due to the proximity of the
Kelbra Dam and the Kyffhäuser, the town is a type of tourist centre, but suffers from heavy day traffic, especially motorcycles, because the road climbing up to the Kyffhäuser starts here.
Nearby are the
Barbarossa Cave and the ''
Peasants' War Panorama'' in
Bad Frankenhausen.
The villages of Sittendorf,
Tilleda (Kyffhäuser) and Thürungen belong to the municipality of Kelbra.
Berga-Kelbra station
Berga-Kelbra station is a station in the municipality of Berga and near Kelbra, which are both in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
History
The station is located on the territory of the municipality of Ber ...
, which is on the
Halle–Hann. Münden railway }
The Halle–Hann. Münden railway (also known along with a portion of the Hanoverian Southern Railway as the ''Halle-Kasseler Eisenbahn''—Halle-Kassel railway) is a 218 km long main line operated by the Deutsche Bahn in Germany, which lin ...
is located nearby in
Berga.
Town twinning
Kelbra is twinned with the English village of
Frampton Cotterell and the German town of
Bad Salzdetfurth.
References
Mansfeld-Südharz
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