Bad Lauterberg 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 ...

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 ...

. It is situated in the southern

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. 15 km southwest of

Braunlage Braunlage () is a town and health resort in the Goslar district of Lower Saxony in Germany. Situated within the Harz mountain range, south of the Brocken massif, Braunlage's main business is tourism, particularly skiing. Nearby ski resorts inclu ...

, and 20 km southeast 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 Lauterberg is known ''inter alia'' for the liqueurs, ''

Schierker Feuerstein Schierker Feuerstein is a German herbal liqueur, a half-bitters at a strength of 35% alcohol by volume (Alcohol proof, 61 degrees proof, or US 70 proof), originally produced in the village of Schierke, located in the Harz, Upper Harz region of Sax ...

'' and ''Harzer Grubenlicht'', which are both manufactured and bottled here. Bad Lauterberg was the birthplace (1879) of the Polar explorer Alfred Ritscher.

Politics

Town council

Town Council after the local elections on September 11, 2016: *CDU: 6 seats *Wählergruppe: 5 seats *SPD: 5 seats *BI: 2 seats *Bündnis 90/Die Grünen: 1 seats *NPD: 1 seat

Sights

About a mile east of the town in the mountains is the viewing point of ''Hohe Tür'' which is by a mountain lake and on the main

Weser The Weser () is a river of Lower Saxony in north-west Germany. It begins at Hannoversch Münden through the confluence of the Werra and Fulda. It passes through the Hanseatic city of Bremen. Its mouth is further north against the ports of Bre ...

Elbe The Elbe (; cs, Labe ; nds, Ilv or ''Elv''; Upper and dsb, Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Repu ...

watershed. It is checkpoint 43 in the

Harzer Wandernadel The Harzer Wandernadel is a system of hiking awards in the Harz mountains in central Germany. The hiker (or mountain biker) can earn awards at different levels of challenge by walking to the various checkpoints in the network and stamping his or ...

hiking network.''Stempelstelle 43 / Wasserscheide Weser-Elbe „Hohe Tür“''
at www.harzer-wandernadel.de. Retrieved 1 Nov 2017.

Notable people

* Alfred Ritscher (1879-1963), captain and Arctic explorer *

Eberhard Umbach Eberhard Umbach (born 1948 in Bad Lauterberg) is a German physicist. He studied physics at the Munich Technical University and received his doctorate in 1980 with honors. After conducting research in the United States he habilitated also at the ...

(born 1948), German physicist and science manager *

Bibiana Steinhaus Bibiana Steinhaus-Webb (born 24 March 1979) is a German Association football, football referee. She referees for MTV Engelbostel-Schulenburg of the Lower Saxony Football Association, but since October 2020 only as video assistant referee. She wa ...

(born 1979), football referee *

Tino Schmidt Tino Schmidt (born 2 October 1993) is a German footballer who plays as a right midfielder for SV Babelsberg 03. He came through Carl Zeiss Jena's youth system and made his debut in January 2012, as a substitute for Jan Simak in a 3. Liga match ...

(born 1993), football player

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