Walkenried (German pronunciation: [valkənˈʁiːt]) is a municipality in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the southern Harz, approx. 15 km south of Braunlage, and 15 km northwest of Nordhausen. Walkenried was the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Walkenried, which was abolished in November 2016 when Wieda and Zorge were incorporated into the municipality.
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The Walkenrieder Kreuzgangkonzerte have been the annual music festival of Walkenried Abbey in Lower Saxony Göttingen district since 1983.
Since 2010, the Walkenried Abbey venue has been part of the World Heritage Site Upper Harz Water Regale.
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Walkenried Abbey was a Cistercian abbey located in the village of Walkenried in Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1127 on the southern rim of the Harz mountain range, the remnants of the monastic complex since 2010 are part of the Upper Harz Water Regale World Heritage Site.
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Walkenried was a Samtgemeinde in the district of Osterode, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
Its seat was in the village Walkenried. It was abolished in November 2016 when Walkenried became one municipality and Osterode merged with the district of Göttingen.
The Samtgemeinde Walkenried consisted of the following municipalities:
Walkenried
Wieda
Zorge
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Ellrich is a town in the district of Nordhausen, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated on the southern edge of the Harz, 13 km northwest of Nordhausen. It is the northernmost settlement in Thuringia.
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The Uffe is a river in the states Lower Saxony and Thuringia, Germany.
The Uffe has its source on the Großer Bockstalskopf in Lower Saxony, a subpeak of the Ravensberg mountain, and flows through the town of Bad Sachsa down to the village of Neuhof. From there the Uffe is known as the Sachsengraben and continues to the village of Branderode.
The stream then sinks into the gypsum karst, before reaching the River Wieda beyond the village of Obersachswerfen. The Wieda, too, regularly dries up behind the hamlet of Wiedigshof.
Until the middle of the last century the Uffe divided in the village of Neuhof. The main stream flowed towards Klettenberg and Holbach where its water power was used in several mills. This stream is still called the Uffe today. The branch running towards Branderode is called the Sachsengraben and passes the villages of Branderode and Obersachswerfen before discharging below Schwinden into the Wieda, which flows into the Zorge downstream of Schwinden. The waters of the Zorge pass down the Helme, Unstrut and Saale into the Elbe.
Today the Uffe has no direct route beyond Neuhof and it now begins in front of a bridge about 5 metres above the Sachsengraben. Due to the lack of a link to the 'main' Uffe, it is usually dry there, is filled by springs and flows through the villages of Klettenberg and Holbach, by the B 243 federal road, onto the Ichte.
Between Bad Sachsa and Neuhof, the Uffe flows immediately past the foot of the Sachsenstein, a former coral reef in the Zechstein Sea. Here, by a section of the South Harz Railway, are the ruins of the Sachsenstein Castle.
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The village is principally known as the location of Walkenried Abbey, the third Cistercian monastery established on German-speaking territory, founded in 1127 and secularised in 1668.
