DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Niedersachsen	Lower Saxony
Landkreis: Göttingen

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Bad Sachsa is situated at an elevation of 357 m in the southern fotthills of the Harz mountains in the east of the district Göttingen, about 50 km of the district town. The municipality has a population of about 7,400 (2019). Bad Sachsa is a state-approved climatic health resort.

The oldest known written document mentioning the place dates from 1219. The oldest extant building, the tower of the church of St. Nicholas, dates from about 1180–1200. Castle Sachsenburg on the Sachsenstein was founde around 1170 but was already demolished in an unfinished state after a local revolt in 1074. At least since 1238 Sachsa was part of the county of Honstein, before that it belonged to Klettenberg. Between 1516 and 1525 (presumably in 1525) it obtained the privileges of a town. When the counts of Honstein became extinct in 1593, both the counts of Schwarzburg and the counts of Stolberg claimed the domains; however, the administrator of the bishopric of Halberstadt took reclaimed the territory as a finished fief and enfeoffed it to the Duke Heinrich Julius of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel — note that the administrator and the duke were one and the same person. During the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) the ownership of the territory changed several times until it was occupied by Swedish troops in 1648. Following the Peace of Westphalia (signed in 1648 in Münster and in Osnabrück) it became part of Brandenburg-Prussia (with exception of the period of the French occupation between 1807 and 1813). Since 1816 it was part of the district Nordhausen within the the Prussian province of Saxony. Tourism started around 1860, the operations of the spa began in 1874. After the town had been recognized as a health resort by the government in 1905 the name was changed to Bad Sachsa with "Bad" meaning 'spa'. During the Nazi period the place developed into a focus of the NSDAP in the Nordhausen-Südharz party circle. The children from the families of the members of the 20 July plot were taken into custody in Bad Sachsa as collective punishment and were interned in a children's home run by the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV). Since the merger of the former districts Osterode am Harz and Göttingen, Bad Sachsa is part of the latter.

The picture on glass no. 3843 [left] shows a view of the Katzenstein mountain in the outskirts of Bad Sachsa.

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