Blankenburg

Blankenburg is a town in the district of Harz in Saxony Anhalt, Germany. Since November 2016 she has been provided the title of state authorized hotel. Finds within the wider vicinity of the town Blankenburg seek advice from distinctive colonization levels of the northern Harz foreland for the reason that Neolithic to the Roman Empire. For the duration of approximately 400 to 600 AD, the so known as migration period, a depopulation of this location may be assumed due to loss of archaeological proof.

The first documentary point out of the citadel Blankenburg goes lower back to the year 1123 in a file of Emperor Lothar of Supplinburg. This left some years later his fans Poppo I. Von Blankenburg the plant. The descendants Poppos, who're called Count of Regenstein-Blankenburg, were subordinate inside the following years, the nearby fort Regenstein and additionally the castle Heimburg. The emerging county Blankenburg existed as a Welfish fief, wherein the feudal authority changed into every so often demanded via the Diocese of Halberstadt.