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Town in Lower Saxony, Germany
Photo: Elke Wetzig (Elya), CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Herzberg am Harz is a town in southern Niedersachsen, Germany, on the southwestern rim of the Harz mountain range and the Harz National Park. Its 16th-century castle houses a small cultural centre with a restaurant, a museum and the great hall, which is used for various cultural events. Natural monuments in the surrounding area include the Unicorn Cave, the Karst Trail, and the Rhume Spring.
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museum portrays the history of the forestry industry in the Harz, the castle's history and that of the Welfs. Other exhibition areas present the history of Herzberg arms manufacture as well as the work of Herzberg organ maker Johann Andreas Engelhardt. In part of the permanent exhibition there is a facsimile of the Gospels of Henry the Lion, a masterpiece of Romanesque book illumination of the 12th century containing the four Gospel accounts.
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Well priced, owned by a family of Esperanto speakers.
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About a 70 km drive away you find Kassel-Calden airport, which receives a very limited number of flights and is thus probably not your best bet in arriving here.
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