Braunlage
Coat of arms	Location
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Goslar
Town subdivisions	3 districts
Mayor	Stefan Grote (SPD)
Basic statistics
Area	km² ( sq mi)
Elevation	m  (1837 ft)
Population	Please give "Stand or population_as_of" in YYYY-MM-DD format , e. g. 2005-12-31 [1]
- Density	/km² ( /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST ([[UTC+1]]/[[UTC+2|+2]])
Licence plate	GS
Postal code	38700
Area code	05520
Website	www.stadt-braunlage.de Coordinates: 51°43′37″N 10°36′43″E / 51.72694, 10.61194

Braunlage is a health resort in the Goslar district in Lower Saxony in Germany. It lies in the Harz region, south of the Brocken mountain. Braunlage is situated at the federal highways 4 and 27.

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

Geography

City districts

• Braunlage
• Hohegeiß
• Königskrug

History

Braunlage started out as a pit settlement in the forest in the 14th century, which was revived in 1561. In the 17th century it was a small market town, finally in 1934 it received 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 Aerial Tramway.

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

Year Inhabitants 1821 1,691 1848 2,473 1871 2,288 1885 2,489 1905 3,408 1925 4,520

Year Inhabitants 1933 4,893 1939 4,981 1946 9,489 1950 9,334 1956 7,523

Year Inhabitants 1961 7,163 1968 7,716 1970 7,249 1975 7,266 1980 7,140

Year Inhabitants 1985 6,776 1990 6,148 1995 5,998 2000 5,476 2005 5,142

Politics

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

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