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

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

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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 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, and 10 km north of

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

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

Samtgemeinde A ''Samtgemeinde'' (; plural: ''Samtgemeinden'') is a type of administrative division in Lower Saxony, Germany. ''Samtgemeinden'' are local government associations of municipalities, equivalent to the '' Ämter'' in Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenb ...

'' ("collective municipality") Bad Grund, 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

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: ''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