Blankenburg am Harz is a town and health resort in the district of Wernigerode, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, at the N. foot of the Harz Mountains, 12 m. by rail S.W. from Halberstadt. Pop. (1901) 10,173. It has been in large part rebuilt since a fire in 1836, and possesses a castle, with various collections, a museum of antiquities, an old town. hail and churches. There are pine-needle baths and a hospital for nervous diseases. Gardening is a speciality. In the vicinity is a cliff or ridge of rock called Teufelsmauer (Devils Wall), from which fine views are obtained across the plain and into the deep gorges of the Harz Mountains. Wernigerode is a district (Kreis) in the west of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. ... With an area of 20,447 km² and a population of 2. ... The Harz is a mountain range in northern Germany. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Charles Darwin 1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

Blankenburg is the seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft ("collective municipality") Blankenburg, which consists of the following municipalities (population in 2005 between brackets): An Amt (plural Ämter) is an administrative unit, which is unique to the German Bundesländer (federal states) of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg. ...

• Blankenburg (Harz) * (15.896)
• Cattenstedt (740)
• Heimburg (956)
• Hüttenrode (1.224)
• Timmenrode (1.098)
• Wienrode (891)

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