<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Altenau ([ˈʔaltənaʊ] (
listen)) is a town and a former municipality in the district of Goslar, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Since 1 January 2015 it is part of the town Clausthal-Zellerfeld.
It is situated in the middle of the Harz mountains, between Clausthal-Zellerfeld and the Brocken. It was part of the former Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Oberharz.
Geography
Districts
History
Demographics
Year |
Inhabitants |
1821 |
1,244 |
1848 |
1,963 |
1871 |
2,179 |
1885 |
2,145 |
1905 |
2,091 |
1925 |
1,914 |
|
Year |
Inhabitants |
1933 |
1,947 |
1939 |
2,505 |
1946 |
2,744 |
1950 |
2,717 |
1956 |
2,442 |
|
Year |
Inhabitants |
1961 |
2,304 |
1968 |
2,209 |
1970 |
2,250 |
1975 |
2,500 |
1980 |
2,522 |
|
Year |
Inhabitants |
1985 |
2,541 |
1990 |
2,405 |
1995 |
2,287 |
2000 |
2,146 |
2005 |
1,980 |
|
Sights
- Saint Nicholas Church, a Protestant wooden church with three naves, was built in 1670[1]
- The modern Catholic Saint Oliver Church of Altenau was built in 1976.
- The former railway station of Altenau is a wooden building dating from 1914.[2]
Politics
Town council
2006 local elections:
- SPD: 7 seats (54.16%)
- CDU: 6 seats (45.84%)
-
-
-
-
Side building, former railway station
References
- ↑ Josef Walz: Der Harz, p.83. Köln 1995
- ↑ Evert Heusinkveld: Die Innerstetalbahn Langelsheim - Altenau, p.89. Nordhorn 2007
External links
![](/w/images/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png) |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Altenau. |