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Braunlage
Braunlage about 1900
Braunlage
Coordinates	51°43′37″N 10°36′43″E / 51.72694°N 10.61194°E / 51.72694; 10.61194
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Goslar
Town subdivisions	3 districts
Mayor	Stefan Grote (SPD)
Basic statistics
Area	21.70 km2 (8.38 sq mi)
Elevation	560 m  (1837 ft)
Population	4,929  (31 December 2007)[1]
- Density	227 /km2 (588 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	GS
Postal code	38700
Area code	05520
Website	[www.braunlage.org]

Braunlage is a town and health resort in the Goslar district in Lower Saxony in Germany. It lies within the Harz mountain range, south of the Brocken.

Nowadays Braunlage's main business is tourism, particularly ski tourists. Good ski resorts nearby are the Sonnenberg and the slopes on the Wurmberg.

Geography

The town consists of three districts:

• Braunlage
• Hohegeiß
• Königskrug

Braunlage is situated at the Bundesstraßen No. 4 running from Braunschweig to Nordhausen and No. 27 from Blankenburg to Göttingen.

History

Braunlage started out as a pit settlement in the forest first mentioned as brunenlohe in a 1253 deed, which was revived, when the Counts of Blankenburg established an ironworks in 1561. With the County Braunlage fell to the Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel in 1599. In the 17th century it was a small market town, finally in 1934 it received town privileges and the municipal status as a health resort.

In 1963 it became the location of the longest gondola lift (of Northern Germany), with a length of 2.8 kilometers and a height difference of 400 meters to the mountain station on the Wurmberg mountain, see Wurmberg Gondola Lift.

On 7 May 1964 Gerhard Zucker demonstrated on the Hasselkopf hill a flight of mail rockets. One of these rockets exploded, killing three people.

Demographics

Population statistics

Politics

Wurmberg around 1900

Town council

2006 local elections:

• CDU: 7 seats
• SPD: 5 seats
• Bürgerliste: 4 seats

Culture and sights

Sports

The local hockey team Harzer Wölfe is an important part of the northern German Ice Hockey Culture.

External links

• Braunlage Tourism (German)
• Braunlage at the Open Directory Project

References

Towns and municipalities in Goslar (district) Altenau | Bad Harzburg | Braunlage | Clausthal-Zellerfeld | Goslar | Hahausen | Langelsheim | Liebenburg | Lutter am Barenberge | Sankt Andreasberg | Schulenberg im Oberharz | Seesen | Vienenburg | Wallmoden | Wildemann