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Ortsteil of Thale in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

# Altenbrak

Altenbrak is a village and a former municipality in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

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Altenbrak · Angela Huster

The place

Altenbrak is a village and a former municipality in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altenbrak), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Altenbrak

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. Rappbode Dam The Rappbode Dam is the largest dam in the Harz region as well as the highest dam in Germany. Built between 1952 and 1959, it consists of a dam, waterworks, hydroelectric power station and reservoir. 2.8 km · dam in Germany · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rappbode_Dam)
2. Wendefurth Dam The Wendefurth Dam near Wendefurth in the Harz, Germany, is one of the dams downstream of the Rappbode Dam, that provides flood protection as well as impounding the River Bode to provide the lower reservoir for the Wendefurth Power Station. In addition it is a bathing lake and also supports fish farming. 1.4 km · dam in Germany · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendefurth_Dam)

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

## Getting to Altenbrak

**Airports:** Erfurt-Weimar (ERF), 84 km · Leipzig/Halle (LEJ), 96 km · Kassel (KSF), 112 km\

- Erfurt → Altenbrak 83 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · €13–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/erfurt-to-altenbrak) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Erfurt&to=Altenbrak)
- Schkeuditz → Altenbrak 96 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · €14–19 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/schkeuditz-to-altenbrak) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Schkeuditz&to=Altenbrak)
- Calden → Altenbrak 112 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · €17–23 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/calden-to-altenbrak) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Calden&to=Altenbrak)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Altenbrak)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Altenbrak

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Altenbrak. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 438 km
2. [Helsingborg and the Öresund crossing](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsingborg) SE 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 493 km
3. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 676 km
4. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 851 km
5. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 859 km

If you know how people move in Altenbrak – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Caltenbrak&title=Altenbrak&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Faltenbrak), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Altenbrak

- [Treseburg](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/treseburg) human settlement in Germany 3.4 km
- [Bode Gorge](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bode-gorge) valley in Harz District, Germany 2.3 km
- [Wendefurth](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wendefurth) human settlement in Germany 1.2 km

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